GreyMatters Neurofeedback Team

If you or your child is struggling with symptoms of ADHD and the emotional and often social difficulties that go along with it, then neurofeedback is a great life changing, non-invasive solution. I myself grew up with these difficulties, so when my son was in Kindergarten and we got the call to have an early parent/teacher conference, I instinctively knew what is was about. My son is bright, creative, and very distractible! 

As a therapist, I know what the effects are of long-term medication use on a developing brain, and I did not want to go down that road. Desperate for an alternative, I began my journey into understanding neurofeedback. Like many, I was a skeptic at first, and it took several years to jump in with both feet, but when I did, it changed my life as much as the lives of my children. 

For years, our evening routine was a struggle for both kids to get work done- if the assignments and materials even made it home! The procrastination and obvious torture to sit and do the work after having been at school and working all day were difficult on the whole family. It was familiar because it was how I grew up. 

We tried all types of tutoring, vision therapy, various brain learning centers, diet modifications and environmental changes. Each year and each new modality brought slight changes, but nothing that eased the dread and struggle of getting schoolwork completed. Because I had been following the advances in neurofeedback technology, I recognized that the difference of QEEG guided neurofeedback, and how it would be able to specifically address the needs of my child’s brain. I jumped in and had both kids going for training during the summer months. 

In the first month or so, I noticed subtle changes in attention, mood, ability to follow through and less resistance with chores and such. But wow! When school started, I realized how dramatically neurofeedback had changed the brain function of my children. The school term immediately revealed how drastically our lives had changed. The lost items, the difficulty getting out of the house in the morning, were too big not to notice, but the defining moment was noticing that homework & school projects were getting done without me! 

Math had been a huge struggle throughout the years, despite the brain clinic work we’d dutifully completed. Now my son, who in junior high could not easily perform mental math or multiplication tables, was doing well in higher math. He went on to graduate with honors and is now studying mechanical engineering. 

Years later, I am still amazed at the potential he had all along but could not access due to brain firing dysregulation. The changes brought about by neurofeedback allowed him to enjoy school and more importantly to enjoy learning.