BoulderNeurofeedback.com

I received an email from a client who was referred to me by a colleague in Denver.  She went to my website and decided that I was not a traditional psychotherapist.  And at first glance, that might seem true.  But in all actuality, my training and background include traditional talk therapy and counseling, having worked as a supervisor who trained masters level interns in the internship phase of their training in a community mental health facility. And research indicates that a good therapist needs to be tremendously flexible and adaptable based on the needs and desires of her/his client.

This week, I heard from a neurofeedback client I had worked with a few years ago for anxiety who now has cancer and has been going through an extremely difficult time.  Receiving radiation treatments is never easy, and on top if it, he has been having panic attacks, mostly in the middle of the night. The panic is a repercussion of overload that he is dealing with, a relief valve of sorts. And it is a healthy mechanism for maintaining equilibrium in his system, but certainly not pleasant at all.   So he called to ask if I could help.

Sharon Begley’s article in the March 7, 2011 Newsweek magazine says it all: “How the deluge of information paralyzes our ability to make good decisions”!

This is what I am seeing from clients, many of them children.  People are contacting me because they or their children are overwhelmed in work and at school and in life in general.  This overwhelm, known as unresolved stress, is causing them to behave in ways that do not make for successful outcomes.  When we become overloaded, our systems can at times go a little ‘haywire’, it appears at first sight, though our Central Nervous System is actually behaving as designed in an intelligent way in order to keep us from blowing up or burning out.

by David Delaney

I get calls from potential clients on a regular basis who are out of work, have anxiety and need help improving their focus, motivation, and ability to be stay calm in the face of challenge, and present when they interview for jobs.  Another way to say this is that they need improved peak or optimal performance.  This is a very difficult economy for many folks and losing a job can have devastating effects on a person’s confidence and financial worries, on top of family, social obligations, and the pressures of an intense life what we all experience.

What exactly is Neurofeedback?

Changing your brain wave patterns, which is the interaction of electrical and chemical activity in your brain, produces changes in how you feel, how you act, as well as how you interact with people and the world around you.