All neurofeedback starts with a QEEG, or brain map, but, prior to that the interested person must qualify as a possible neurofeedback client. This sounds intimidating, but it really isn’t. Surgeons have to evaluate patients before any elective surgery and they don’t accept every patient due to a multitude of factors individual to each person. In the same way neurofeedback therapy isn’t for every person. Individual consultations will be had with interested clients and I will go over a short and simple evaluation with them privately to see if neurofeedback training is the best option for them at this point, or if we need to look into starting somewhere else in the mind and body regulation process before starting neurofeedback.

After qualifying a client then will schedule their first Quantitative Electroencephalogram (QEEG) evaluation. The QEEG is an assessment tool designed to objectively and scientifically evaluate a person’s brainwave patterns. The procedure consists of placing a snug cap on the head. Embedded within the cap are 12 small sensors that are designed to measure and record electrical activity coming from the brain. AKA: your brainwaves. It is important to note that these sensors do not put any electrical current into the brain – they simply record signals coming from the brain. Having a QEEG assessment administered is non-invasive and painless. Much like a heart monitor which only records your heart rate, the sensors only record the electrical activity of the brain. It is not invasive in any way.

With brain analysis software can review data and identify what specific activity is giving rise to your symptoms. Brain map recordings are then processed through the FDA-approved normative database for comparison to "normal" results, which allows us to identify any dysregulated areas that will require specific attention during neurofeedback treatment.

In a similar way to other laboratory tests in clinical medicine, the QEEG brain map is performed to compare the patient's brain map to normal brain activity for people in their age group. Like a blood test for thyroid functioning, which will reveal if your thyroid hormone levels are within the normal range, low or abnormally elevated compared to a patient population with normal thyroid functioning, the brain map process will show if your brain activity is within normal limits, or, dysregulated in some way.