Information For Clinicians
Welcome to our Clinician Center. Professionals, find all the information you need about neurofeedback and how it relates to your practice.
To be successful in neurofeedback, you need good equipment, good courses, and good mentoring. Invest in learning, and it will reward you and your clients or patients with long-term success. View a list of full resources to read about background, training, equipment, certification, adding neurofeedback to your practice, and financial issues.
1 They need more help than medications and psychotherapy can offer some patients.
Most experienced clinicians are well aware of the limitations of medications and psychotherapy. But what are their options?
Biofeedback is not strange, and it’s not new. Few clinicians are aware of brain biofeedback, or eeg biofeedback, and how far it has advanced. Once they hear about it, you hear them say “it made sense” or “I knew I had to look into this further”. That’s true even for very conservative professionals. They just have to be willing to dig in.
Historically, most clinicians who adopt neurofeedback already have 15-20 years or more of experience. It seems experienced clinicians are more acutely aware of the limits of meds and psychotherapy and look for other solutions to best help their clients. Of course, as neurofeedback gains in popularity and more research is published, more and more practitioners learn about it earlier in their careers.
2 Clients are demanding an alternative.
Parents often don’t want their children on meds. They’re concerned about side effects and actively seek alternatives that work. More and more doctors and patients are concerned about side effects as long-term effects of drugs on the body become more known. When they learn about neurofeedback and its efficacy, they’re often open and interested in a modality that has solid success rates, research, and no side effects.
3 It makes sense to normalize and regulate brain patterns.
Many clinicians say they’ve always had an interest in the brain and that the idea you can train the brain and improve self-regulation through biofeedback makes sense to them. From brain maps and other types of brain scans, it’s obvious many patients have dysregulated brains. How does a clinician help the client change the brain? Meditation, yoga, or can slow breathing help, but many of the problems patients experience need stronger interventions. Neurofeedback helps people learn to regulate their brain by increasing certain activity and decreasing other activity.
Have you taken courses or been to conferences on neurofeedback? Have you been doing neurofeedback for a while? You may be itching to increase your neurofeedback skills or to add other instruments or equipment.
We always recommend that clinicians learn one system well before adding anything to it. Looking across many clinicians’ experience, it seems that trying to learn multiple systems, models, approaches, and tools at the same time actually slows down your start-up. It’s probably like trying to learn several different kinds of therapy at once. It’s better to learn one well, then add to it.
