Brainworks Neurotherapy

Neurofeedback was a treatment I used in treating Codependency and Complex Trauma. I was very naive in the beginning. I was expecting to 'take a pill and get fixed'. Healing from intergenerational trauma takes a lot more than this. Only you can heal yourself.I was stuck, engaged in a lifetime of defensive patterns of thoughts, unable to concentrate, or function. The neurofeedback treatment allowed me over time to ground myself and to learn about these defensive parts of me. It gave me the insight to see my thoughts clearly without engaging in them. A lot of the emotions that went with them subsided. I then went on to use Internal Family Systems Therapy to work with these protective parts inside of me and to release the burdens they have been protecting from since childhood.Please don't see neurofeedback as an all in one cure, what it was for me though was the tool to get my brain working in a functional way, grounded, which then allowed me to do the healing. I have read that it has been compared to 'Mindfulness on steroids'. This is very true. Before I started I could not meditate as I was fully engaged in my defensive thoughts. Now though with three years of doing the work above I regularly meditate and am now centred in my ''Self' in the present throughout, with my parts coming and going occasionally.Healing is only possible when you can stay present enough to see your behaviour, to recognise where it has originated and to understand that it was once trying to protect you but now is not relevant. Neurofeedback helped me to get to and stay in that place.

I attended the Bristol branch of Brainworks Neurotherapy about 7 years ago. The Neurofeedback I received from James, Sarah amd Allison really helped me improve my brain function and overall quality of life. I still deal with learning difficulties but since doing the two week intensive my life has been much better since. Brain stimulation is the future especially if you are stuck with some learning or attention problem especially if you know you give everything in life your best, but always struggle and fall behind regardless. Would recommend and plan to another intensive at some point in the future.

Please don't make the same mistake that I did and pay so much for something(neurofeedback) that is proven to not work beyond placebo. Read the double-blind placebo-controlled neurofeedback studys.They clearly show that neurofeedback is not effective. Taking a lot of money and time from someone who is clearly suffering from an illness is one of the most immoral things a person can do and neurofeedback companys do this on a large scale.