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Healing through the head and the heart.
🌱 Specializing in anxiety, trauma, relationships, ADHD & more
🧠 Offering personalized psychotherapy & neurofeedback
💛 Compassionate, heart-driven care.

10/31/2025

QEEG before ➡️ after 15 sessions of neurofeedback.

Presenting concerns: Anxiety, depression, and emotion regulation difficulties.

What changed in the brain:
 🧠 Delta: Decrease in excessive Delta activity and improved communication across regions, suggesting better alertness, mental clarity, and emotional stability (less “fog” or emotional heaviness)

🧠 Alpha: Reduced excess frontal Alpha, reflecting improved engagement, motivation, and emotional responsiveness
 🧠 Beta & High Beta: Reduced activation, reflecting less overarousal and mental tension, often linked to decreased anxiety and racing thoughts
 🧠 Theta: Still elevated, but now showing much better communication across regions, a sign of improving integration and regulation.

Based on these findings, we’ll continue with a more targeted approach over the next 10 sessions to support Theta regulation further.

Overall, this pattern reflects a brain moving toward balance, clarity, and adaptability, the foundation for emotional resilience.

Change starts in the brain, and ripples outward. 💛

Curious how neurofeedback could help for you? Let’s connect. 💌

10/13/2025

Gratitude helps the nervous system settle.
 It gently reminds the brain that we are safe, supported, and connected.

I’m feeling deeply thankful today: for the people I work with, for the stories I get to witness, and for the power of the brain to change and heal.
 Wishing you a restful and heart-filled Thanksgiving. 🍁🧠🧡

09/24/2025

✌️💜🌊
 Because your brain deserves good vibes too.

09/17/2025

I’ve had a lot of people reach out asking about what somatic psychotherapy is since welcoming my newest team member who specializes in this approach.

Somatic psychotherapy is a type of therapy that focuses on the connection between the mind and body. 🧘🏻🧘🏽‍♀️

It recognizes that stress, emotions, and trauma often live in our physical experience.

This means that these things can show up through tension, posture, breath, or nervous system responses. 🫁🧠

Unlike traditional talk therapy alone, somatic therapy invites the body into the conversation.

This approach can be especially supportive for people who feel stuck even after talking things through, or for those navigating trauma, transitions, anxiety, or chronic stress.

Healing isn’t just about changing thoughts, it’s about helping the body feel safe and alive again. ✨

If you’re curious about whether somatic therapy might be right for you, I’d love to chat. 💛

09/16/2025

Did you know our amazing neurofeedback technician, Jamie, wears a lot of hats? 👒🎩🧢

By day, he’s a full-time kindergarten teacher wrangling tiny humans and shaping big imaginations.

By evening, he’s here in the clinic helping brains find their balance. 🧠⚡

And as if that wasn’t enough… he also sidelines as a children’s book author! 📚✨

His stories are funny, heartwarming, and inclusive; bringing joy and representation to kids everywhere.

Basically, he’s proof that superheroes don’t always wear capes…

Sometimes they carry books, EEG sensors, and finger paint. 💪😄

09/09/2025

🌱 Our practice is growing again…

Please join me in welcoming Megan! 🧡🩷

Megan is an Associate Psychotherapist with over 15 years of experience as a Somatic Psychotherapist and Dance/Movement Therapist.

Her passion is walking alongside people during life’s tender transitions (whether it’s grief, identity shifts, career changes, or moments of uncertainty).

What makes Megan such a beautiful fit for our practice is the way she embodies our motto: healing through the head and the heart. 🧠💃

Through body-based and somatic approaches, Megan helps people reconnect with their inner wisdom - complementing the work we do with neurofeedback and talk therapy.

Her presence, compassion, and deep listening create a space where healing feels both grounded and transformative.

We are so thrilled to have her on the team, and we know you’ll feel the same. 🌿

📅 Megan is now accepting new clients in-person and virtually.

Please feel free to reach out to learn more about how she can support you.

09/06/2025

What can a brain map show us about anxiety? 🧠

For some people, anxiety feels like it’s been hard-wired for as long as they can remember.

And this is because the nervous system adapts early on, creating patterns designed to protect us. 🚨

But over time, those same patterns can leave us feeling stuck in worry and tension.

We mapped the brain of an adult who has struggled with anxiety since childhood.

They’ve tried many treatments over the years, but nothing seemed to fully “stick.”

Being a very logical person, their nervous system needed support beyond just talking about it.

Here’s what we saw:

🔹 Elevated beta and hi-beta activity, showing the brain in a constant fight-or-flight mode.

�🔹 Excess alpha activity, making it hard to shift gears, stay present, and regulate emotions.

�🔹 Hypo-coherence, meaning weaker communication between regions, leaving them feeling scattered and dysregulated.

�🔹 Frontal tension, reflecting years of muscle bracing from chronic anxiety.

�🔹 Delta elevation in the left frontal lobe (F3), a pattern often linked to depression, which here shows up as negative self-talk mixed with anxiety.

These patterns don’t define who they are, but they help explain why anxiety has felt so consuming.

Brain mapping doesn’t label, it helps us understand.

And understanding opens the door to care that finally fits.

Curious what your brain might tell us? Let’s connect. 💌

09/03/2025

Proof that resilience is real. 🌱

Even with me as its less-than-perfect caretaker, this plant keeps showing up.

Turns out you don’t have to get it exactly right for growth to happen. ❣️

A little light, a little consistency, and things have a way of working themselves out…

with a little help from your friends 😉💚 (looking at you, ).

08/27/2025

Neurofeedback is powerful, but it’s not magic. 🪄
 It’s about helping your nervous system do what it’s built to do: regulate, adapt, and restore balance.

That means:
 ❌ It doesn’t erase your personality ❌ It doesn’t fix everything overnight ❌ It doesn’t force your brain into submission ❌ It’s not only for “serious” struggles ❌ And it doesn’t replace other supports

What it does do is gently guide your brain toward patterns that feel calmer, clearer, and more resilient.

Sometimes the biggest misconception about neurofeedback is that it should feel dramatic or instant. ⏩

In reality, it’s the slow, steady shifts that build the most meaningful change.

08/26/2025

Sometimes the right space makes it easier to breathe. 🧘🏽‍♀️
 I’ve tried to curate this space with intention.

Light, calm tones, and little details that remind us we’re safe to slow down. ✨

The space matters just as much as the conversations we have in it.

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08/25/2025

Turns out you can actually teach an old dog new tricks. 🧠✨
 Your brain is not fixed.

It’s flexible, adaptable, and capable of growth.
 Thanks to neuroplasticity, our brains are constantly reshaping and rewiring. 🔄

Neurofeedback taps into this ability by giving the brain real-time information about its own activity, encouraging it to shift out of unhelpful patterns and into healthier, more efficient ones.

Change isn’t just possible, it’s science. 🧪
 And every brain, at every age, has the ability to adapt and grow.

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http://www.brittanyduncantherapy.com/

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