A qEEG (Brain Map) is a valuable way of looking beyond external symptoms and behaviors to the brain activity beneath. Ruminating thoughts, chronic agitation and anxiety, stubborn depression, knowing what to do but not actually doing it. These are often the symptoms that bring people to psychotherapy but just do not seem to change no matter how hard they try to think their way out of them. We call these “sticky brains” or “sticky symptoms.”

These “sticky symptoms” are actually ways your brain has learned to adapt to the world around it through the course of your life but do not represent the way your brain is actually supposed to be working to best enable your success. As Chantel Prat, PhD, author of The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain is Different and How to Understand Yours says, “The fact that something about your brain causes you to think, feel, or behave in a certain way does not necessarily mean either that you were born that way or that it can’t change.” 

A Brain Map is the foundation of our Neurofeedback Training programs. It allows us to identify what your brain needs and we can best help you move toward the changes you want to see in your life. Having a deeper understanding of what is and is not as likely to be under your control lets us fine-tune your neurofeedback training while also providing important information for areas to focus on with therapy, coaching, academic counseling, and more. 

A Brain Map:

• Identifies key areas for brain optimization with neurofeedback training;
• Creates a personalized brain optimization plan for you;
• Helps to confirm, clarify, or rule-out diagnoses such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, etc.