Neurofeedback
Develop balance, stronger emotional regulation, and healing.
What is Neurofeedback?
Neurofeedback offers a powerful, drug-free way to retrain your brain and restore balance from the inside out. Using advanced technology, we provide real-time feedback on your brainwave activity, helping your brain learn to regulate itself more effectively. Over time, this creates lasting improvements in focus, mood, sleep, emotional resilience, and more!
If you’re living with trauma, dissociation, anxiety, depression, ADHD, anger, or sleep difficulties, you don’t have to stay stuck. Each neurofeedback session is personalized to your needs, gently guiding your brain toward healthier patterns. Clients often describe feeling calmer, clearer, and more in control—ultimately reconnecting with their best self.
With consistency, neurofeedback can open the door to meaningful, lasting change, so that you can experience not just symptom relief, but renewed hope, balance, and well-being. Schedule your first neurofeedback appointment today!
How Does Neurofeedback Work?
Neurofeedback uses computer animations to provide real-time feedback to the brain based on its activity. A therapist adjusts the training frequency to help your brain achieve its optimal state. For example, if you're watching a movie during a session, a dysregulated brainwave pattern may cause the screen to shrink or flicker, with distorted audio. As your brain begins to regulate and match the optimal frequency, the screen and audio normalize, teaching your brain how to maintain a healthier, more balanced frequency.
Neurofeedback is not a one-size-fits-all solution and may not work for everyone. It requires time, consistency, and commitment but has shown numerous positive results for reducing symptoms. The goal is to help individuals track and improve their progress through detailed reports during training sessions, aiming for greater emotional and mental balance.
Consistency is key to success with neurofeedback, much like physical therapy helps the body recover over time. While not a lifelong commitment, regular sessions allow the brain to learn healthier regulation. Stopping too soon risks losing progress, but completing at least 20 sessions provides lasting benefits. As training progresses, sessions taper off to reinforce results, and occasional maintenance sessions can help sustain these improvements. With dedication, neurofeedback can create meaningful, long-term changes for a healthier, more balanced mind!
Neurofeedback Session Process
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1. Symptom Assessment
Before your session begins, your therapist will check in with you about your current symptoms. This follow-up from your intake or previous sessions helps track your progress with neurofeedback and gives you a chance to share how you’ve been feeling. It’s also an ideal time to ask any questions or discuss what you’ve noticed between sessions. Our hope is for your symptoms to continuously improve.
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2. Get Set-Up with Electrodes
Once the check-in is complete, your therapist will gently prepare you for the session. Small sensors (electrodes) will be placed on specific areas of your scalp using a soft paste and cleansing gel. These are applied only to the small spots where the sensors rest. Depending on your personalized treatment plan, the sensors may be adjusted to different locations during the session.
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3. Participate in Your Session
During neurofeedback, you’ll have options for how you’d like to receive feedback. At Healing Ground Counseling, clients often enjoy watching a movie, viewing YouTube clips, or even playing a video game. Before beginning the program, you and your therapist will decide which option feels best for you.
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4. Clean Up
At the end of your neurofeedback session, your therapist will gently remove the sensors and clean the small areas of your scalp where they were placed, ensuring you’re comfortable before you leave.
FAQs
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Neurofeedback may be right for you if you feel stuck in patterns that keep you from living fully—whether it’s difficulty with focus, sleep struggles, mood swings, anxiety, depression, trauma, or simply feeling “off” and not like yourself. If you’ve tried other approaches and are still searching for lasting relief, neurofeedback offers a gentle, drug-free way to help your brain regulate itself more effectively. Because it’s tailored to your unique needs, neurofeedback meets you where you are and helps guide your brain toward healthier, more balanced patterns.
Participating in neurofeedback is an investment in becoming your best self—calmer, clearer, and more in control. As your brain learns to function at its optimal state, you may find yourself experiencing more focus, emotional resilience, restful sleep, and a greater sense of balance in daily life. Neurofeedback isn’t just about symptom relief; it’s about opening the door to a healthier, more empowered version of yourself. With time and commitment, it can create meaningful, long-term change that helps you show up more fully for yourself and the people you love.
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Neurofeedback is highly individualized and not a one-size-fits-all solution. It requires consistency and commitment, but many clients experience meaningful results such as reduced symptoms and greater emotional balance. Progress is carefully tracked through detailed symptom assessments and graphs of your brainwaves during your sessions so you and your therapist can see the improvements over time. In reviewing both of these, you and your therapist can go over the progress that is being made as symptoms decrease and as you feel like a better, more regulated you!
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A simple way to think about this is that neurofeedback is like physical therapy for the brain. It works best with regular, consistent training. While it’s not a lifelong commitment, stopping too early can limit your results. Most clients benefit from completing at least 20 sessions to create lasting changes. As you progress, sessions gradually taper off, and occasional maintenance sessions may be recommended to sustain your improvements. With dedication, neurofeedback can lead to long-term growth and a more balanced, resilient mind. Symptom relief and greater balance in your daily life is typically noticed in as little as 6 sessions, on average! Progress can depend on the severity of the symptoms and occur on a case-by-case basis, but the majority of clients notice improvements very rapidly.
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Neurofeedback has been studied for decades, and the Othmer Method, which we use at Healing Ground Counseling, has been in practice since the 1980s. Research has consistently shown improvements in areas such as anger, anxiety, depression, trauma, sleep difficulties, impulse control, emotional regulation, focus, and overall stability.
To explore the research behind neurofeedback, visit: https://eeginfo.com/research/index.jsp
"While my training had traditionally centered around enhancing physical agility, the inclusion of brain training has proven to refine my mental agility too."
— Kerri Walsh Jennings
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