What is Neurofeedback?
Neurofeedback, also known as electroencephalogram (EEG) biofeedback or brainwave biofeedback, is a natural, non-invasive therapy providing lasting, drug-free relief from a broad range of disorders. By placing sensors on your scalp that measure brainwave activity at specific brain sites and reflecting it back to the client, it offers information that your brain utilizes to train and change its patterns of communication and timing.

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Neurofeedback provides your brain direct access to the information it needs to achieve stability and optimized function, allowing it to better self-regulate. As it does this, your brain's function improves, allowing you to experience changes in emotional state and in daily function. Neurofeedback facilitates direct access to the brain processes that define our experience of life, self, and the world. With neurofeedback, your brain transforms it own internal patterns of communication and function. This makes it a rapid, powerful, and effective therapeutic tool.

An initial course of therapy consists of a minimum of 20 visits in one hour sessions twice weekly. 20 sessions is the minimum number of treatments where we can reasonably predict lasting effects. Some conditions will respond sufficiently in such a short treatment window. Chronic, degenerative conditions, or those with underlying medical issues may need more sessions.

Your treatment plan will target brain regions and processes specific to your condition, however improvements typically appear in a broader range of areas than simply those targeted. For example, treating headaches or seizures may also lead to a calming of emotional states, a brightening of visual field, improved sleep, improved cognitive function, or other combinations of changes.

What happens during a session?
During a session, sensors are placed on carefully-selected sites on your scalp and your brain's moment-to-moment activity is reflected onto a screen in front of you in real time. Sitting in front of a video monitor, you watch and listen while playing a game, watching a movie, or simply enjoying a pleasant audiovisual display. Subtle changes occur on the screen, and over time your brain begins to recognize these changes as reflections of its own internal activity. As your brain begins to recognize this information as significant to its own function, it adjusts, refines, and tunes itself in response. This entire process occurs below the level of conscious thought or intent. No overt action is required of you, beyond watching and listening. Progressively, dysregulated and dysfunctional processes begin to balance and calm themselves. Clients often find themselves surprised at how easy it is. By directly accessing base processes regulating brain function, neurofeedback bypasses your conscious mind and goes directly to the core impulses and brain processes which produce your conscious experience of the world. You should expect to experience a pleasant relaxation, clarity of mind, and improved general sense of well being during or after sessions. Over time, these effects will begin to deepen and hold longer between sessions.

To maximize recovery, clients are often recommended to also address dietary, lifestyle, environmental, medical, and other potential insults to a person's well being. Because training your brain for greater stability and function may also have effects on immunologic and hormonal systems, those taking medications should coordinate with their prescriber, as doses may need to be reduced in response to training.

How long do the effects last?
Because this form of healing is based in your brain learning new ways of functioning, the results tend to be lasting. During initial sessions, your brain is learning how to utilize the biological terrain of its function differently. Just as with learning a new language or instrument, our brains have the capacity to actually rewire themselves in new ways throughout our lifespan. Over the course of treatment,as your brain learns how to function in new ways, it begins to ‘rewire’ itself into what become lasting changes.

Why choose Radiant Mind?
There are now many types of neurofeedback on the market, including affordable home devices. Radiant Mind uses a specific, powerful, and effective technology and method (Othmer method) that differs significantly from a one-size fits all, plug in and go technology. Our practitioner offers multiple modes including infra-low frequency (ILF), alpha-theta deep state, and synchrony. Treatment is tailored and refined to each specific client and modified as needed during and between sessions. In achieving safe, quick, and maximal recovery, these differences matter.

Radiant Mind neurofeedback is non-invasive and non-prescriptive, operating on the assumption that ideal function will be different for each individual brain. Therefore, your brain will never be pushed or forced into a particular state; it will simply receive a reflection of its own activity in real time. Your brain guides the process, offering greater flexibility and posing a broader spectrum of successful endpoints for training. Over time, your brain learns to adjust and regulate its own internal processes in a more balanced, functional, and optimized manner.

Lastly, Radiant Mind sessions are guided and managed by a practitioner who is also a trained nurse and a successful neurofeedback client. His combination of skills and experience makes him uniquely qualified to guide your process with compassion, continually assessing, adjusting protocols, and tailoring protocols specific to your symptoms.

Please feel free to reach out with questions and inquiries.

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