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Neurofeedback Therapy

A non-invasive, medication-free way to train your brain toward better focus, calm, and emotional regulation — using real-time feedback on your own brain activity.

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Training your brain, not medicating it

Neurofeedback is a type of biofeedback that uses sensors placed on your scalp to read your brain's electrical activity (EEG) in real time. That activity is fed back to you — usually as a video or simple game that responds to your brain's patterns — so you can see, moment to moment, what your brain is doing.

Through repetition, your brain starts to recognize and reinforce the patterns associated with focus, calm, or emotional balance, the same way you'd get better at a skill through practice. There's no medication, no needles, and nothing implanted — it's your own brain learning to regulate itself with better information.

How a course of neurofeedback usually works

What To Expect

We start with a quantitative EEG (qEEG) brain map — a painless recording of your brain’s electrical activity across the scalp — to see your current patterns and identify what’s worth targeting.

Your clinician uses the brain map, along with your goals and history, to build a personalized training protocol — which specific brainwave patterns to train, and where.

Sessions typically run 2 to 3 times per week, about 30–45 minutes each, with sensors on your scalp while you watch a screen that responds to your brain activity in real time.
Your clinician periodically checks progress against your brain map and goals, and adjusts the protocol as your brain responds to training.

Change tends to build gradually. Many clients notice initial shifts within 10–20 sessions, with a fuller course often running 20–40 sessions depending on the goal.

Neurofeedback compared with medication

Neither approach is automatically "better" — they work differently, and the right fit depends on you. Here's how they generally compare.

Neurofeedback

  • Non-invasive — no chemicals enter your body
  • Teaches a self-regulation skill that can persist after training ends
  • Effects build gradually over multiple sessions
  • No reported drug-like side effects
  • Requires a real time investment — often weeks to months
  • Not always covered by insurance

Medication

  • Can take effect quickly once at the right dose
  • Generally needs to be taken consistently to maintain effect
  • Well-established option for many conditions
  • Can carry side effects for some people (e.g. appetite, sleep, mood changes)
  • Often covered by insurance
  • Widely researched with decades of data across many conditions

If you’re currently taking medication, neurofeedback is something to add to that conversation, not a reason to stop on your own. Any change to a prescribed medication should go through your prescribing provider.