Low energy Neurofeedback system (LENS)

 The Low Energy Neurofeedback System (LENS) provides an opening, a possibility for your central nervous system to adopt a new, more effective, and appropriate processing method to respond to your internal and external environments. The LENS resets the nervous system in a way that reduces dysregulation and promotes self-regulation which allows you to experience a greater sense of well-being.  

• Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussions
• Anxiety and Panic Attacks
• Sleep Disturbances
• Depression 
• Chronic Fatigue
• Migraine Headaches
• ADHD, ADD and Attention Issues
• PTSD
• Chronic Stress
• Brain Fog
• Chronic Pain

   The Low Energy Neurofeedback System (LENS) is a unique form of neurofeedback treatment. It is quick, efficient and addresses many of the issues arising from our busy, modern lives. The LENS works by essentially resetting the brain and nervous system. Over the course of treatment, this reset allows the brain to find a new baseline to operate from by breaking up patterns of habitual reactions and responses to environmental and internal stressors. Interrupting the habitual patterns can help improve stress management, anxiety, attention deficit issues, and PTSD-like symptoms. 

Many of us are exposed to ongoing stressful situations throughout each day. Medical conditions, poor sleep, unhealthy eating, lack of exercise, overwork, and poor stress management can cause stress to accumulate in our systems. Over time, this accumulation can cause one to become stuck in habitual stress response patterns. If you have a history of trauma with physical, mental and/or emotional abuse, this may prime you to have a less manageable stress response than those without a history of significant trauma.

Our nervous systems have very limited ways to work with ongoing stress. The branch of our nervous system that is mainly affected by it is the autonomic nervous system (ANS). The ANS has two parts — the sympathetic and the parasympathetic. The sympathetic is the ‘get up and go’ system and it roughly governs the fight, flight or freeze reactions. The parasympathetic is the ‘rest and digest’ system and governs relaxation.

Over time, with ongoing stress, we can get stuck in a fight, flight or freeze pattern — the sympathetic nervous system response pattern. Sometimes a collapse into apathy may happen — a parasympathetic nervous system response pattern. These patterns can manifest as anxiety, insomnia, migraines, ADHD, PTSD, chronic fatigue, being ‘wired but tired’ and having impulse control issues.

When the LENS treatment resets the nervous system it can help one to break out of being stuck in one of these response patterns; it allows the nervous system to relax out of a sympathetic response or energize the system out of a parasympathetic response pattern.

The resetting into a new baseline of functioning allows the body as a whole to let go of habitual stress responses and maladaptive reactions to our internal and external environments that have been learned throughout a lifetime. To be clear, those responses and reactions don’t disappear, they tend to become more conscious, tend to lose the power to overwhelm, and pass through the psyche with greater ease.

The new baseline takes a relatively short amount of time to achieve. On average, eight to ten weekly treatments are needed and then a few more treatments spaced apart from two to four weeks. For some patients it may take longer depending on the unique issues that person brings. For example, those with a history of head injuries and concussions generally take more weekly treatments than those without that history. The individual treatments are usually very quick, only a few seconds each time, although in rare cases it may take several minutes of feedback. 

Over the course of treatment most patients report feeling calmer, less anxious, more able to focus and make decisions, and just plain  better.