Eight Top Reasons Clinicians Choose Neurofeedback For Their Practices

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 and how far it has advanced. Once they hear about it and start to look into it further, you hear them say - "it made sense" or "I knew I had to look into this further."  That's true for even very conservative professionals. They just have to be willing to dig in.  Most clinician who adopt neurofeedback already have 15-20 years or more experience. It's clearly not the young clinicians who pick it up first.  It seems experienced clinicians are more acutely aware of the limits of meds and psychotherapy. 

2) Clients are demanding an alternative.
Dr. Roura, the child psychiatrist in Miami we interviewed, talked about his experience with patients (click to hear).  He's not atypical.  Parents in his practice often don't want their children on meds. They're concerned about side effects.  As an MD, he is concerned about side effects. Parents and patients push for alternatives that work.  When they learn about neurofeedback, they're often more open and interested initially than many clinicians. 

3) It makes sense to regulate the brain.
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 simply makes sense to them.  It's obvious many patients have very dysregulated brains. How does a clinician help the client change the brain?  Meditation, yoga, or slow breathing helps clients change the brain.  But many of the problems patients bring need stronger interventions.  Biofeedback helps an individual learn to regulate their brain - to increase certain activity, and decrease other activity.

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Adding To A Practice - Issues and Questions

To be successful in neurofeedback, you need good equipment, good courses, and good mentoring.  Neurofeedback is a discipline, and the core issue is to learn it and use it. Invest in learning and it will reward you and your clients/patients.  (Click here to read about background, training, equipment, certification, and financial issues...)


For Clinicians Who Already Use Neurofeedback

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 other equipment.

We always recommend - learn one thing well before you add 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 slow down your startup.  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.  (Click here to read full article...)