Neurofeedback therapy is a non-invasive treatment that helps patients regulate brain activity by monitoring brain waves and offering feedback. It’s a form of biofeedback, a mind-body method using electronic devices to help patients manage involuntary bodily functions.
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Our mental health and substance use disorder treatment programs offer unique and effective approaches. One approach is our highly specialized neurofeedback program for mental health. This program is tailored to address the root causes of mental health disorders, including substance use disorders, helping you regain control of your life.
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What is Neurofeedback?
Neurofeedback, also known as EEG biofeedback, is a non-invasive treatment method that helps individuals control their brain waves. By monitoring brainwave patterns, such as alpha waves, beta, delta, and theta waves, it enables you to gain more control over your brain’s electrical activity. This technique has gained traction, as it has shown promising results in improving treatment outcomes. The effectiveness lies in the capacity of the EEG treatment to keep the brain’s cortex active even when an individual resists change.
During a neurofeedback session, you are connected to an EEG device with electronic sensors that measures and displays your brain waves in real-time. This information is then used to provide feedback, typically in the form of visual or auditory stimuli, which helps guide your brain toward healthier patterns. Through repeated neurofeedback treatment sessions, your brain becomes more efficient at self-regulation, which can ultimately aid in overcoming a mental health disorder.
In recent years, neurofeedback has been incorporated into mental health programs, allowing individuals to better identify, understand, and alter their brainwave patterns. By addressing the root of mental health challenges – the imbalanced brain – this technique can lead to lasting recovery and improved overall mental well-being.
How Does Neurofeedback Work?
Neurofeedback treatment, or EEG biofeedback treatment, is a method that helps individuals learn to regulate their brain function in real-time. Here’s how it works:
- EEG Monitoring: Using electrodes on the scalp, the brain’s electrical activity is measured.
- Brainwave Analysis: This activity is processed by a computer, which categorizes it into different frequency bands (e.g., delta, theta, alpha, beta, gamma).
- Setting Goals: Based on the individual’s needs and the identified imbalances, certain brainwave patterns are targeted for adjustment.
- Real-time Feedback: As part of the EEG biofeedback treatment, individuals receive immediate visual or auditory feedback based on their current brainwave activity, guiding them toward the desired patterns.
- Learning and Self-regulation: Over multiple sessions, individuals train their brains to produce or minimize specific patterns, optimizing their brain function.
- Assessment and Adjustment: The effectiveness of the training is periodically assessed, and goals are fine-tuned as needed.
- Transfer to Daily Life: With consistent training, individuals can maintain healthier brain waves in daily life, potentially addressing symptoms or challenges related to the mental health disorder they might be experiencing.
While neurofeedback can be a standalone treatment for certain conditions, it is often most effective when combined with other therapeutic approaches.
Benefits of Neurofeedback
There are many positive outcomes associated with neurofeedback sessions for addiction and mental health treatment. These sessions can greatly help individuals improve aspects of their mental well-being. Here are some noteworthy benefits:
- Improved self-control: Neurofeedback helps you gain better control over your impulses and actions, empowering you to manage your mental health challenges.
- Enhances self-regulation: By improving your ability to self-regulate, you can better handle emotional distress and the symptoms of mental health disorders.
- Management of mental health disorders: Neurofeedback can help manage mental health disorders by fostering healthier coping mechanisms.
- Reduction in symptoms of depression: Participants often experience alleviation of depressive symptoms through neurofeedback sessions.
- Stress reduction: Neurofeedback aids in reducing stress, a common trigger for mental health challenges.
- Enhanced cognitive performance: Cognitive functions such as memory and decision-making often improve as a result of neurofeedback.
- Improved focus and attention: Training your brain through neurofeedback can lead to better concentration and attentiveness.
- Improved emotional regulation: Gaining better control over your emotions is a key aspect of managing mental illness, and neurofeedback can help achieve this.
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Types of Neurotherapy We Offer
At Sabino Recovery, as part of our holistic approach, we offer various treatment options including neurotherapy. Our neurofeedback specialist has extensive neurofeedback training and utilizes these evidence-based techniques to treat mental health and support your personalized recovery plan.
Some of the distinct Neurotherapy methods we provide include neuroplasticity exercises, QEEG brain mapping, and neurofeedback sessions. These innovative treatment options aim to assist you in fostering positive brain changes, leading to a healthier and more sustainable recovery from mental health disorders.
Neuroplasticity
Your brain has the incredible ability to rewire itself, a process known as neuroplasticity. This important feature allows your brain to create and strengthen neural pathways in response to thoughts, emotions, and experiences.
In the context of mental health recovery, understanding neuroplasticity is crucial. By consistently reinforcing positive thoughts and actions, you can create new, healthy neural connections, which contribute to improved decision-making, optimism, and resilience. Utilizing your brain’s natural neuroplasticity can play a key role in achieving lasting mental health recovery. Research on brain mapping has shown that structural changes can occur in your brain as new connections form. Thus, neuroplasticity provides hope for overcoming mental health challenges and transforming your thought patterns for a healthier life.
QEEG Brain Mapping
In neurofeedback for mental health, an advanced neurological technology called qEEG produces a color-coded brain map. This non-invasive method quantifies the power, amount, distribution, and ratio of various brain waves without radiation or injections. Although it’s not a diagnostic tool, qEEG Brain Mapping is valuable for making accurate diagnoses and prioritizing treatment needs.
Specific physiological hallmarks on a brain map can reveal conditions such as ADHD, depression, PTSD, and brain injury, aiding in medication management. Additionally, it can identify undiagnosed learning disabilities and styles, as well as other crucial neuro and biological markers. These insights empower clinical teams to create individualized plans for each person undergoing brain mapping.
Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback is a technique that helps quantify and train your brain activity, ultimately benefiting your general mental health. By detecting brain waves through sensors, it enables you to see your brain’s real-time functioning. This process facilitates an increasing understanding of your thought patterns and brainwave responses.
Using results from qEEG Brain Mapping, sensors placed on your head monitor overactive or underactive wave patterns. The collected data gets converted into visual stimuli that respond to fluctuations in your brainwaves. Similar to training muscle memory, repetitive exposure teaches your brain to adopt the appropriate wave patterns automatically, gradually leading to improved mental health.
I am so happy that I chose Sabino to begin my recovery. I have suffered for years from depression, anxiety, panic disorder, and PTSD. The programs that are offered here at Sabino have been truly phenomenal in helping me recover. I also appreciated the professional staff that are here on duty 24/7, which helps create a safe environment. Sabino Recovery uses effective “one on one” methods that meet each person’s individual needs because they evaluate and have a better understanding of your personal traumatic experiences. Thanks Sabino, I am truly grateful to you and the sabino family.
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Neurofeedback Therapy at Sabino Recovery
At Sabino Recovery, we specialize in treating mental health challenges through evidence-based modalities, like neurofeedback therapy. Our goal is to address the underlying trauma of individuals with mental health disorders and offer comprehensive care to treat the whole person, not just the symptoms of their mental health challenges.
Your treatment may include a combination of therapies, such as individual, group, and family therapy, to suit your unique needs. With 50 one-on-one sessions in 35 days, you will have ample time with your therapist. Meanwhile, our group therapy sessions are kept small, never exceeding 8 participants, ensuring an intimate and supportive environment. Furthermore, we provide a robust family program that includes in-person, on-campus therapy sessions with a dedicated family therapist.
Our commitment to your success extends beyond residential care. Each resident will create a continuing care plan that may involve medication management, individual therapy, or further treatments like partial hospitalization or intensive outpatient programs. We also offer a lifelong alumni program to support your long-term mental health recovery.
Shara Turner, LPC, MSC, NCC, NARM
Shara brings to Sabino Recovery a unique perspective and skill set as she spent the majority of her earlier career in public health working with individuals dually diagnosed with a variety of substance use and mental health disorders, complex trauma, and extreme environmental and social inadequacies. The challenges faced in this arena have provided her with a strong base of practice in assessment, treatment, and case management.
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