What We Train
Neurofeedback is a non-drug, non-invasive reward-based training system for your brain.
Our Services
Brain Mapping
Brain mapping, also known as Quantitative Electroencephalography (QEEG), is like creating a blueprint of your brain's electrical activity. It involves placing sensors on your scalp to measure brain waves and create a detailed map. This map serves as a baseline, showing how your brain functions at rest and during different tasks. Having this baseline is valuable because it helps clinicians identify any areas of irregular activity, track changes over time, and tailor neurofeedback training specifically to your brain's unique patterns.
Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback is akin to a workout routine for your brain, where you exercise specific brain functions. It's like going to the gym for your brain, training it to produce healthier patterns of electrical activity. Just as lifting weights strengthens muscles, neurofeedback helps strengthen neural pathways related to focus, relaxation, or emotion regulation. With consistent "brain workouts," you enhance your mental fitness and achieve better cognitive and emotional performance.
Why Work With Us
The brain has the capacity to heal and optimize itself
Non- medication approach
Science-based noninvasive neurofeedback
Integrative brain health
Optimize Your Brain's Performance With Neurofeedback
Achieving peak brain performance requires a delicate balance of fast and slow-moving brain waves. At Healthy Within, we offer neurofeedback, a cutting-edge form of feedback designed to enhance your brain’s electrical activity. This non-invasive treatment is dedicated to addressing unwanted symptoms at their source.
Our process involves strategically placing electrodes on different regions of your brain, allowing us to monitor its activity in real-time. Through this monitoring, your brain is nudged to self-regulate and relax, crucial elements for optimal brain function. This technology helps your brain identify areas of deficiency and necessity, ultimately training it to become more adaptable and efficient.
The best part? Our neurofeedback treatment is entirely painless, and there are no electrical currents passing through your brain. Experience the power of self-improvement and unlock your brain’s full potential, utilizing an evidence based treatment.
Why Does Neurofeedback work?
Neuroplasticity is the brain’s natural ability to reorganize itself by creating new neural networks and correcting already existing connections. Neurofeedback takes advantage of the brain’s ability to change itself through Neuroplasticity. It utilizes the same learning process that occurs whenever we acquire a new skill. The brain learns by forming connections between nerves.
We strategically place sensors in regions requiring regulation, hence improving the connectivity in those areas. Think of neurofeedback as specialized exercise for the brain. Healthier brain fitness allows the mind to be more calmer, stable, and focused.
Why Do We Not Hear About Neurofeedback?
Dr. Joe Kamiya initiated Neurofeedback research at the University of Chicago in 1966, followed by Dr. Barry Sterman at UCLA in 1967. Over 1,500 research articles exist on Neurofeedback. Despite nearly four decades of existence, most medical and psychology graduate schools lack EEG biofeedback courses, similar to the absence of basic nutrition courses for doctors. Furthermore, healthcare professionals are often unfamiliar with neurofeedback due to the absence of a major lobby promoting it. Traditionally, pharmaceutical companies have hundreds of lobbyists vouching for drugs, which is why drugs become the first treatment of choice. Pharmaceutical drugs dominate brain condition treatments, with major companies investing heavily in lobbies and marketing. Many patients seek out neurofeedback due to the negative side effects from psychotropic medications. Our brains are influenced by both biochemistry and electrical activity. By teaching the brain self-regulation and providing alternatives, it can learn to heal itself in powerful ways. Brain neurocircuitry influences neurochemistry, offering a healing path for the brain. The brain is the CEO of the body, hence any improvement in the brain brings about positive changes in the body.
Our Philosophy
1. At Healthy Within, we operate as an integrative psychological practice, emphasizing a collaborative medicine approach.
2. Our team comprises of skilled professionals who bring diverse integrative perspectives to the table, including Acupuncturists, Naturopathic Doctors, Integrative Nutritionists, experts in supplements, exercise specialists, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapists, Integrative Neurologists and Psychiatrists, NeuroRehab Centers, EMDR Therapists, and Mindfulness Practitioners. When combined with neurofeedback, these integrative treatments yield remarkable results.
3. As an Integrative Psychologist with a Post-Doctorate Master’s Degree in Psychopharmacology, Dr. Kakaiya and her team at Healthy Within are deeply committed to uncovering the underlying causes of mental health conditions that are often overlooked. We delve into factors such as mold exposure, tick-borne diseases, heavy metal toxicity, lifestyle issues, and gastrointestinal disorders, all of which our collaborative team addresses. Many brain-related conditions like Depression, Anxiety, ADHD, OCD, Fibromyalgia, and Insomnia can be traced back to brain inflammation originating from the microbiome, which causes gut issues. Our goal is to work alongside you to address these concerns.
4. We partner with you to explore adaptogens, address lifestyle issues, restore microbiome balance, and offer additional innovative treatments like Alpha-Stim (cranial electrotherapy), CES (Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation), and mindfulness-based stress reduction.
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