Hundreds and thousands of people seek ways to treat their mental illnesses through therapy and medications, but at times, none of them seem to ease the symptoms. Talk therapy works for some, but they never feel like that alone is enough to help them.
Why does that happen?
Although these causes are uncertain, there is still a way to reduce anxiety, depression, attention issues, and trauma. In this post, we will shed light on neurofeedback treatment that could complement medication and talk therapy.
How Does Neurofeedback Work?
Neurofeedback is a new approach that produces positive results. Although the Neurofeedback approach has been there for over fifty years, this method is still described as ‘new’ simply because it’s new to the mental well-being care system.
At Alquimedez Mental Health Counseling, our practitioners focus on training our brains self-regulation techniques from an entirely different angle to deal with mental health problems.
Symptoms lessen overtime when self-regulation starts to work—resulting in a positive impact on any person dealing with mental health issues. Alquimedez Mental Health Counseling incorporates neurofeedback treatment, which helps the patients focus better, feel less anxious, sleep better, and feel less impulsive.
What Is Neurofeedback?
Our brain structure comprises more than a hundredbillion neurons, each considered specialized cells that transmit information within the brain. Various chemicals regulate these neurons in the brain, such as dopamine, glutamate, and serotonin, responsible for managing our mental processes.
Neurofeedback at Alquimedez Mental Health Counseling is a practice intended to help individuals improve their capacity to regulate their brain function. The system has specialized equipment known as EEG (electroencephalograph) which helps monitor, measure, and train the brain’s activity.
The experts use the knowledge they drive from these stats to encourage improved brain activity and treat any brain regions after detecting dysregulation in brain function.
The electrochemical activities in the brain are continually monitored after the brain’s activity is recorded. The feedback is used to adjust the brain accordingly.
How Does Neurofeedback Treatment Work?
At Alquimedez Mental Health Counseling, the neurofeedback treatment is rather simple. A patient is instructed to sit in a comfortable chair and engage in numerous mind-stimulating activities such as playing video games or watching movies throughout a neurofeedback session. After that, the specialist attaches unique sensors on the patient’s head that detect brainwave activity.
During these sessions, the patient is expected to speak with the practitioner assigned to them about what they see on the screen while watching a movie or playing video games. They are then presented with a series of questions to which they must respond. The practitioner ensures that the sensor positioning, brainwave reading, and software operations are accurate after the patient communicates their feelings.
The Takeaway
Neurofeedback is indefinitely supposed to complement medication and psychotherapy; it cannot be used as a replacement for either. Years of research and numerous studies show that individuals who benefit from Neurofeedback and incorporate it in their therapy plan can achieve substantial progress by actively engaging with therapy and suggestions from their therapists.
At Alquimedez Mental Health Counseling, this new approach, Neurofeedback, has been introduced in the mental health care sector to train individuals’ brains to self-regulate.
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