Best Biofeedback Therapist Cary Near Me

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Individuals may experience stress due to certain life events. Without proper coping tools, experiencing a stress response for a duration of time may result in dysfunctional patterns of behavior and psychological distress. Biofeedback provides a visual representation of these internal stress responses in real time, thus enabling the therapist to develop appropriate training protocols as well as providing validation for the individual’s lived experiences.

The primary goal of biofeedback training is to provide necessary tools for individuals to develop a skill-set in order to become their best self. Biofeedback allows individuals to view their responses to stress in real time, increasing self-awareness. Implementing biofeedback training in conjunction with counseling enables individuals to gain control over stress responses while reconstructing faulty thinking.

This therapeutic process enables individuals to decrease symptoms associated with mental health conditions, thereby achieving mental clarity and well-being. Our goal is to help you grow from your struggles, heal from your pain, and move forward to where you want to be in your life.

Biofeedback allows individuals to view their responses to stress in real time, increasing self-awareness while learning to manipulate these stress responses thus gaining self-control and regulation. Common modalities include skin temperature training, skin conductance training, electrical-myography (EMG), respiration training, and heart rate variability training (HRV).

Using an electroencephalograph (EEG), individuals learn of their brainwave activity in relation to symptoms, can see these brainwaves in real time, and learn to control & manipulate brainwave activity to decrease symptoms.

A qEEG (Quantitative Electroencephalogram) is a diagnostic tool that measures electrical activity in the form of brain wave patterns. It is sometimes referred to as “brain mapping.” A qEEG can reveal brain wave patterns that are associated with impulsivity, cognitive inflexibility, anxiety, and other symptoms. A qEEG is needed prior to neurofeedback training, especially if an individual has experienced head trauma.

If you aren’t in the area, or are more comfortable to engage in the counseling process in the security of your own space, online counseling services can be provided.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy involves identifying and reconstructing faulty thinking that drives negative feelings, attitudes and behaviors to become a better, more positive and realistic you.

Solution Focused Therapy involves finding solutions by exploring your hope for the future and implementing realistic goals to create positive lifestyle behaviors.

A team approach is implemented if additional services are needed and referrals can be made for chiropractic care, psychiatry, massage therapy, nutritional counseling, herbal medicine, and more.

A bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach involves interventions to retrain physiological basis related to symptoms, reconstruct faulty thinking, and re-establish healthier ways of functioning.

Here is a list of commonly asked questions and the typical answers provided.

Approximately 90% of the conditions we seek help from our Primary Care Physician for are stress-related. Therefore, anyone who is experiencing a stress-response and who has the cognitive ability to participate within the sessions, makes a good candidate for biofeedback & neurofeedback training. For specific conditions and diagnoses worked with here at Capital Biofeedback, Inc., please scroll above to the Symptom Resolution section located under Our Therapy.

YES! Biofeedback & Neurofeedback are TOOLS used in conjunction with therapy. Dr. Tami Maes Fragedakis is a Licensed Professional Counselor and works within the scope of her license. The training individuals engage in are part of a therapeutic process. Therefore, sessions are coded accordingly under the counseling license.

If you are seeking treatment from another provider who does NOT have a license to treat mental health conditions, it will be very difficult to be reimbursed by insurance for services that are rendered for mental health diagnosis.

Dr. Fragedakis is paneled by BCBS. Reimbursement, co-pays and fees in which the individual is responsible for will be determined based on your plan.

If you do not have BCBS, you pay out of pocket ($130/session). If you would like to file with your insurance, I will generate a claim form for you. You will need to file this and your insurance company will reimburse you directly according to your plan. Typically you will need to meet an out-of-network deductible. Each time you pay, you will chip away at this deductible. Reimbursement from your insurance will be made to you depending on your plan.

There are 2 separate charges to generate a qEEG. The first one is to record the data. This takes approximately an hour and is $130. This fee may be reimbursed or even paid for by insurance depending on the plan. The fee to quantify your QEEG and provide a brain map is $300 and insurance does not cover this.

4worldlovers:

We help people improve their lives by assisting in restoring brain balance and harmony.

We accomplish this through a specialized process called Neuroptimal neurofeedback. This individually tailored process of balancing and harmonizing brainwaves is a specialized form of Neurofeedback which has assisted in improved brain function and relief for so many people around the world for a myriad of conditions including:

The human brain is the control center that regulates our bodies through our central nervous system. When the brain is functioning abnormally or is out of balance, we experience all kinds of symptoms. Brain balance and harmony is the first step to well-being. Balance in the brain is naturally followed by balance in the body.

Our specialized form of Neurofeedback, which is also sometimes called neurotherapy and/or EEG biofeedback, is a form of natural medicine or remedy where focus is centered on the fact that the body has a natural ability to heal and maintain itself.

More specifically, we place sensors onto the scalp using equipment known as an electroencephalograph device or EEG. The EEG sensors read the brainwave activity produced by the brain in real time and displays the brain activity for analysis. The brainwave activity is captured and interpreted in real time by a computer. The computer optimizes and provides feedback to the person in the form of pleasant sounds, hence the term neurofeedback. This gives the brain a whole new way of “seeing” exactly how it is functioning which is always the first step to finding a path to improvement. The brain actually learns or re-learns a healthier way of operating and the body naturally follows.

Our brains also have a natural ability to seek and maintain a stable, constant way of functioning which is a concept known as Homeostasis. Our brains are affected by what we experience whether positive or negative. When a trauma occurs in a person’s life, that person’s brain will seek homeostasis as it settles down and sometimes will find a less than optimal way of functioning and adopt it as normal. Neuroptimal neurofeedback provides a way for the brain to find its optimal pattern of functioning as a basis for homeostasis. The brain will seek to maintain this improved way of operating as its normal, stable, condition just as it had maintained the less than ideal pattern of functioning.