Welcome to a space where information takes priority over flashy gimmicks designed to simply get clicks. I've crafted this website to be engaging and informative, aiming to provide you with a clear understanding of Neurofeedback and help you find a solution.

It's a complex field, and finding what's right for you might take a little extra reading, given the specific topic and your unique needs.

My goal is to enlighten, not overwhelm. Have questions? I'm here to help. Drop me an email, give me a call, or set up a free consultation.

Cheers,

~Renee

I offer neurofeedback services exclusively, which allows me to keep my rates more affordable. As someone who has personally benefited tremendously from this technology, my goal is to expand access to this life-changing tool.

Respectfully, many other providers are licensed psychologists who can offer a broader range of services, including talk therapy and other traditional therapies. If those are services you need, I encourage you to pursue them. It’s important not to cut corners when it comes to your health, and licensed psychologists can often work with your insurance, which I cannot.

I believe talk therapy is a crucial component of mental health recovery and is essential in many situations. However, I chose to focus solely on neurofeedback because it is my passion.

In addition to neurofeedback, I provide guidance on hydration, nutrition, and mindset that are specifically tailored to support the neurofeedback process. To offer an analogy, think of it as "No Frills" versus "Superstore" – you get the core essentials without the high overhead.

I have completed the necessary training to provide neurofeedback services and am continually expanding my knowledge through courses and books. This is my niche, and I am dedicated to learning as much as I can to help my clients.

Neurofeedback is a powerful technology that can greatly enhance your well-being and generally help you get the most out of life. 

Brain training with Neurofeedback can unlock untapped cognitive potential and help you achieve long-held goals and dreams as you attain your own State Of NeurPhoria.

For many people, Neurofeedback seems like brand-new technology when in reality, it has been around for 50 years. Recent advances in the technology have made it more accessible and more affordable for almost everyone.

Neurofeedback leverages the brain's neuroplasticity - its ability to learn, adapt, and reorganize. By providing real-time feedback on brain activity, neurofeedback with NeurPhoria helps enhance brain function.

Unlike treatments, this training fosters self-sufficiency; once better patterns are learned, sessions can be discontinued. However, many enjoy regular "tune-ups" for relaxation and clarity, similar to regular gym workouts, but for your brain. The most important muscle in the body.

NeurOptimal® is the most advanced brain training technology available today.

NeurOptimal® neurofeedback systems are very different from other systems. It is completely non-invasive and non-directive because it is based on both a very different understanding about how the brain works, as well as how it is best optimized. 

NeurOptimal® is designed to work with the brain as an information-detection system. 

It uses brief sounds pauses in the music to provide feedback enabling the brain to self-organize without interventions or goals.

By simply giving the brain information about its own activity — about what it has just done— NeurOptimal® helps the brain re-organize itself, thereby activating its own intrinsic healing wisdom. 

This passive, non directive method is safe and effective, emphasizing the brain's natural capacity to improve, unlike traditional neurofeedback, which manipulates brainwaves using low grade electromagnetic signals to interact with brainwave activity.

NeurOptimal® does not rely on light, electromagnetic signals, or direct manipulation of brainwave activity. Instead, it uses pauses in specified music to provide the brain with real-time feedback 256 times per second, allowing the brain to naturally recognize its patterns, learn, and adapt on its own.

As a result of training with NeurOptimal® the brain becomes more stable. As its flexibility and resilience improve, problems and issues begin to fade away and a STATE OF NEURPHORIA is achieved.

Because NeurOptimal® does not "do" anything to the brain, it does not manipulate brain waves there are no sides effects.

Some people do report mild symptoms early in training as the brain gets used to the process. It’s similar to experiencing stiff muscles after going to the gym for the first time if you’ve never worked out before. Eventually this too shall pass.

In rare cases people have reported feeling of tiredness after a session, a slight increase in prior symptoms, light headaches, feeling overly relaxed, becoming emotional.

After regular training some people report being more sensitive to medications, as the medication may begin to feel stronger while your body reduces its current state of discomfort.

Do not reduce or discontinue prescribed medication without consulting your doctor.

Always work with your medical team when adjusting your reliance on medication should you improve over time. Not all people can come off medication. Nor are we here at NeurPhoria encouraging or recommend anyone to discontinue prescribed medications, ever. We are not doctors. This is an action that should only ever be done by medical professionals.

An analogy to explain the temporary symptoms discussed above would be this: it's similar to cleaning out a garage—depending on the situation, things might get a bit messier before they become organized and tidy.

These rare symptoms of the early training process which are typically short lived and are never new, as these effects have brought to the light from within you and are not "created" from the training.

Think of it as bringing it into the light so that it may be reviewed.  Each feeling can be thought of as the brain ‘cleaning out the garage’ for that symptom. 

For example anxiousness, first all the boxes are taken out of the garage (brings out our anxiousness) and then whatever is still needed is put back (cleaned up and good as new in the form of "healthy anxiety") and everything we no longer need is tossed out (unhealthy levels of anxiety).

What is "Healthy anxiety"? Healthy anxiety is a natural and necessary part of the human experience that helps us stay alert, motivated, and prepared for challenges or potential threats. It plays a vital role in survival.

Just be aware that it is 100% safe for all ages to use.

When you are training, no electricity, vibration or external signal is going into the brain. The sensors are simply monitoring electrical activity.

In addition, brain training with NeurOptimal® does not target specific areas of the brain nor does it push the brain in any direction by giving it goals to achieve. In this way, NeurOptimal® is globally effective while remarkably free of unwanted side effects.

Neurofeedback can be best described as a personal trainer for your brain. By giving information to the brain about what it’s doing, it is able to make changes to become more efficient. 

Neurofeedback has been helping to improve brain function for over 50 years now. 

The process involves reading brain activity, interpreting it, and then sending subtle signals back to the brain when it needs to look at what it’s doing and adjust. 

NeurOptimal® can be thought of as effortless mindfulness. 

During a session your brain is working very hard. Neurofeedback is like a coach constantly correcting the form of your brain patterns. 

Most people create poor habits and negative mental patterns throughout their whole lives without even knowing it. 

NeurOptimal® is like holding a mirror up to show the overexerted and messy areas of your brain for your central nervous system to clean up as it sees fit.

The concept of neurofeedback has been around for over 50 years however it is only recently that is has developed to the point of acceptance by more and more mental health professionals as well as researchers. 

The system we use, NeurOptimal®, has been perfecting their technology for years and have come out with a system that is 100% safe, effective, affordable and requires no conscious effort by the client! 

The results speak for themselves, brain training is here to stay.

First, the trainer will attach 2 tiny sensors to the scalp and 3 to the ears. The sensors will pick up the faint signals coming from your brain and relay them to the NeurOptimal® program. 

During the training you will listen to some relaxing music, while seated in a comfortable chair, for a little over 30 minutes. You do not have to do anything specifically during the training. 

The brief interruptions in the sounds and images are giving vital information to your brain subconsciously that allows it to reorganize and become more efficient based on your unique brain patterns. 

After the session is over a relaxed, at ease feeling may occur. The best part is transformation with NeurOptimal® happens according to the brain’s own intrinsic wisdom, with no conscious effort from the client required.

This is a difficult question to answer because everyone’s central nervous system is unique and will react differently to the information it is given through NeurOptimal®. 

After approximately 20 sessions many people will report feeling clearer, calmer, lighter or brighter for a few hours after the session as well rested, having an improved outlook and engaging more effectively with colleagues or loved ones. 

As you continue training, these new shifts will become continue to increase in what is called your ‘new normal’ and should stay with you just like learning to ride a bike. 

Many clients find it beneficial to continue training after their desired results to tune-up their central nervous system on a monthly or even bi-monthly basis to stay sharp. Many clients have incorporated neurofeedback as a necessary part of their self-care routine.

Before your first session, you will be asked to complete a checklist of concerns so that we can have a self-reported baseline of your symptoms as well as goals. 

You then have the option to complete this assessment again after every 10 sessions and compare pre and post data. We do not perform any kind of brain scan assessment such as a qEEG brain map which is typical in the conventional linear approach to neurofeedback to get a visual snapshot of the activity in the brain. 

Such assessments, or any diagnosis you may have, are not at all required or useful with NeurOptimal® and does not change the way the training is performed. 

The system always meets your brain exactly where it is, moment by moment, and simply gives the nervous system information about what it is doing, allowing the brain to self-correct at its own pace. 

There is no attempt to push your brain into a ‘normal’ range, like linear neurofeedback systems do.

So, looking for changes in the brain have little consequence. 

The only kind of assessment that is useful to notice are your experiential changes in your well-being, such as cognitively, emotionally, physically, socially, behaviorally or spiritually. 

For that, we use progress tracking tools such as the pre and post checklist as well as a brief check-in at each session to talk about your shifts.

According to a NeurOptimal® survey of trainers from around the world, the most common client improvements seen in order are:

1. Attention/Focus

2. Anxiety

3. Stress

4. Depression

5. Trauma • PTSD

6. Headaches • Migraines

7. Chronic Pain • Fibromyalgia • General Well-Being • Burnout

8. Autism • Anger • Irritability & Aggression

9. Addiction • Eating Disorders

10. Mood Swings • PMS • Menopause

11. Peak performance • Confidence • OCD

12. TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)

13. Epilepsy • Bi-polar • Asperger's • Panic attacks

14. Gastrointestinal problems (Celiac, Constipation)

15. Phobias • Behavioral Issues (Tantrums, Melt downs)

16. Memory • Resiliency

17. Dyslexia • Tourette's • Chemo Brain

18. Asthma

19. Meditative Arts • Performing Arts

20. Specific Noise Disturbance

21. Parkinson's

22. Sleep

Remember these are the most common changes noticed, some may be lower because they are less common.

It is rare that someone would not benefit from dynamical neurofeedback training.

There are some factors that can slow the brain’s ability to make changes such as un-diagnosed medical conditions, some medications, the client not wanting to train, having very specific expectations, hormonal, hydration, sleep, nutrition imbalances, and hostile living situations. 

We will discuss proven strategies to mitigate, improve or lessen these factors as we work together.

Please keep in mind our bodies are designed to heal one’s self. Our response systems want to optimize and the brain is constantly learning from its surroundings.

Everyone’s brain is different and this is your unique journey to your best self.

Remember. Neurofeedback training does not ‘fix’ any problems. This is not a medical device or treatment. It’s training.

Think building a new resource within yourself that has a cascade of positive effects on all the other aspects of your life and future.