Traditional Approaches

Most people who are seeking help for mental health conditions come across talk therapy, mindfulness or medication.  But in our experience, these can have limited or short-lived impact or it takes a long time to feel real change.  In some cases, there can even be negative outcomes.  It’s very likely that clients’ nervous systems are too dysregulated to engage with behavioural change protocols, or practices like mindfulness.  In talk therapy, clients may be less likely to access deep processes within the brain; or repeating stories from the past can help affirm feelings and unconscious beliefs which prevent real change.  Dr Joe Dispenza says that when such an affirmation is spoken into existence, the correlating emotion conditions a person’s brain and body into that belief…the more they remember the thoughts and feelings, the more it becomes an affirmation.  It’s a programming process, whereby the more we repeat the more both feelings and thoughts become automatic and unconscious. 

Thankfully there is a method of directly training your brain – without words, without prescriptions, often without the need of other practices – Neurofeedback is just using real-time feedback to help your brain and body heal?

Neurofeedback teaches your brain how to stay calm, focused, and balanced, without you having to “think” about it.

Neurofeedback therapy is a cutting-edge approach which is slowing gaining interest across Scotland.  But if you’ve never heard of it before, you’re not alone……..

What Is Neurofeedback?

Neurofeedback is also sometimes referred to as EEG biofeedback.  It’s a non-invasive brain training therapy based on the idea that the brain can learn to function better if it receives real-time information about its own activity.  You can read more about it from our website https://www.neurofeedback.scot

Neurofeedback in Scotland: Why You Haven’t Heard of It (’til now)

Despite its rise in popularity in clinics across Europe, America and Canada, neurofeedback is still relatively new to Scotland. Only a handful of specialized practitioners currently offer it.   Most people who discover us in Glasgow do so after reading The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk; Bessel writes very positively about the benefit of neurofeedback for trauma.  Others find us by accident or after they’ve done a lot of research when conventional methods haven’t helped them.  Although this is starting to change, we’d like the benefits of neurofeedback to be more widely known!

It’s a game-changer for improving mental health

Dysregulated brain activity underlies mental health conditions, especially in areas related to fear, threat detection, and emotional control. Neurofeedback helps re-train the brain to operate more efficiently, reducing the hyperactivity that often underlies chronic worry, restlessness, and panic. Those emotional states which when left unattended can become more serious health issues.

Many of our clients report:

• Reduced anxiety levels or fewer panic attacks
• Better sleep
• Less depression and happier
• Improved focus and resilience
• More in control
• Less conscious management of behaviours and feelings

Who Can Benefit?

We work with all mental and physical health conditions and with all ages. 

Neurofeedback can help people with:

• Anxiety Disorders
• Trauma (PTSD & C-PTSD)
• ADHD/ADD
• Migraines, Fibromyalgia and other physical pain
• Seizures, Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion
• Insomnia
• Autism
• Allergies, Digestion issues, phobias

If you’ve tried traditional treatments and still feel stuck, neurofeedback might offer the breakthrough you’ve been looking for. It’s gentle, science-backed, and different. And available in central Glasgow. 13 Fitzroy Place, Charing Cross

Useful links: Best-selling Trauma Research Author | Bessel van der Kolk, MD.