Catherine A. Boyer, MA, LCSW
New York Neurofeedback
New York, New York 10024
Neurofeedback is a direct, effective, safe way to create change in your life.
If you’re here, you’re interested in neurofeedback. You want to know, can it help you? What would that look like? What can you expect? I’m going to do my best to answer those questions. To ask me about things you specifically want to see change, or any other questions you have, please call me at 212-877-6923 or email.
People who come for neurofeedback are people who want something to change in their lives. They are people who want to be their best selves. The way this shows up – and how neurofeedback may help you – can include any of the following:
Neurofeedback can help you with…
Focus
Contentment
Better sleep
Increased job performance
Excelling at a sport
Spiritual growth
Better self care
Connection with others
Living more authentically
It can eliminate or reduce…
Anxiety
Tension
Depression
Pain
Anger
Distractibility
Headaches
Addictions
Cognitive losses
Neurofeedback is having a personal trainer for your brain.
When you come for training in my New York City Upper West Side office, we will use state of the art neurofeedback to take advantage of the powerful ability of the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) to take in information and use it to regulate itself, and to do this in the way that is organically right for you. This can have you be at your best, probably in the ways you have in mind, and perhaps in ways that might surprise you.
Like all of us, you have learned to respond to stress in particular ways. Some of them may be what you would like to see change. The neurofeedback training we will be doing interrupts the maladaptive responses to stress and brings the brain back to the present moment. The brain assesses the real current circumstances and relaxes – instead of going into the old learned stress response. Over time, this new way of operating becomes the new default way of being. It is amazing what happens when we are present to our lives rather than just reacting.
The state of the art neurofeedback system I use, NeurOptimal™ (formerly NeuroCARE®), reads the electrical activity of the brain from the surface of your scalp and detects moment to moment changes, including those times when your nervous system begins to display turbulence. That might be loss of focus, worry about the past or future, depression, hypervigilance – however it manifests for you. The NeurOptimal™ system flags those moments for your brain by a brief pause in music. The brain alerts to that pause, comes back to the present moment, away from the turbulence, and learns over time – often very quickly – to run itself in this new, more efficient, flexible and resilient way.
Because this system utilizes your brain’s ability to organize itself – at your pace and in the order of change that is right for you – it is quite safe and virtually side effect free. It is non-invasive – nothing is put into your brain except information about what it has just done. Change happens most often in the same effortless, non-consciously driven way that your body knows how to heal a scraped knee without any conscious direction from you.
Please look over the information on this site. If you would like an appointment or if you have questions, you’re welcome to call me or email.
Like all of us, you have learned to respond to stress in particular ways. Some of them may be what you would like to see change. The neurofeedback training we will be doing interrupts the maladaptive responses to stress and brings the brain back to the present moment. The brain assesses the real current circumstances and relaxes – instead of going into the old learned stress response. Over time, this new way of operating becomes the new default way of being. It is amazing what happens when we are present to our lives rather than just reacting.