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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.

02/27/2026

Neurofeedback isn’t one-size-fits-all, and that’s actually why it works so well. 🧠

There are different approaches to brain training, and we offer both by design:

1. QEEG-guided neurofeedback (linear) and
2. Neuroptimal neurofeedback (dynamical or optimal).

Both use real-time feedback to help your brain regulate itself more efficiently.

Both support flexibility, resilience, and better nervous system balance. ⚖️

The difference is in how we get there.

📈 With QEEG-guided neurofeedback, we begin with a brain map. This gives us objective data about your brainwave patterns so we can create a personalized, targeted training plan. Many people appreciate the clarity and structure of this approach, especially if they like understanding the “why” behind what we’re doing.

🌿 With Neuroptimal, there’s no brain map and no set protocol. It’s non-directive, meaning your nervous system guides the process moment by moment. People who prefer a gentler, less clinical experience; or might benefit from generalized nervous system regulation often prefer this model.

Neither approach is better. They simply reflect different philosophies.

When we work together, you don’t have to decide on your own.

Curious to start exploring neurofeedback? Let’s chat 💌

02/24/2026

Grief, loss, illness, and big life changes can hit hard.. and sometimes talking isn’t enough. 💛

Somatic psychotherapy helps you work with your body and your mind, not just one or the other.

It supports nervous system integration, so you can feel your emotions without being overwhelmed, process grief, and slowly find your footing again. 🧘🏽‍♀️

Remember Megan?

She’s our somatic psychotherapist.

She helps people navigate life’s hardest moments with clarity, care, and patience - guiding both heart and mind back toward balance.

Healing doesn’t have to be complicated. It can start with simply listening to your body.

Interested in working with Megan? Let’s connect. 💌

NervousSystemHealing

02/10/2026

Dream team 🔥

Enough said.

02/06/2026

Living with PTSD can keep your nervous system on high alert.

Neurofeedback offers an alternative way to support healing, helping your brain regulate and feel safe without retelling trauma.

When people ask me how neurofeedback might help PTSD, we often start by noting small patterns in daily life. Many people will notice:

* Feeling tense or “on edge” most of the time
* Being hyper-aware or constantly on guard
* Struggling to get restful sleep, with racing thoughts at night
* Feeling emotions intensely or “stuck” in one state
* Finding it hard to feel safe in their body or mind

💛 Neurofeedback can be a powerful tool to help your nervous system practice calm, regulation, and safety.

If you are considering it as part of your journey, let’s connect!

01/21/2026

Client stories are my favourite stories. 🧠💛

This is one of my favourite kinds of feedback.

Not because it’s flashy, but because it speaks to actual regulation.

When the nervous system isn’t stuck in overdrive, sleep becomes more restorative, mornings feel less heavy, and energy starts to return naturally.

Sometimes the biggest shifts show up in the most ordinary moments. ✨

Curious if neurofeedback could support your energy?
 Let’s chat. 💬

01/16/2026

This is how a brain map is made. 🧠

A QEEG uses a 10–20 electrode cap, named for the standardized way sensors are placed across the scalp to capture activity from different regions of the brain.

The cap doesn’t send anything into the brain, it simply records what’s already happening.

The cap is then connected to an amplifier, which strengthens the brain’s natural electrical signals so we can see them on a screen. 📈

Those signals are sent into specialized software that processes the data and helps us look at overall patterns of brain functioning.

From there, we can look at patterns related to things like attention, anxiety, mood, and regulation.

Curious what information a brain map could offer you?

Let’s connect. 💌

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BrainMapping

01/13/2026

What can a brain map show us about OCD? 🧠

For many people, OCD is characterized by a nervous system that learns to stay alert, careful, and in control to reduce discomfort or threat. 🚨
 Over time, those same protective strategies can turn into rigidity, looping thoughts, and compulsive urges.

We recently mapped the brain of an adult who has lived with OCD for decades.

Here’s what their brain map showed:

🔹 Increased delta and theta, reflecting difficulty shifting out of stuck mental states.

🔹 Elevated alpha activity, suggesting over-inhibition and mental “locking in”.

🔹 High beta activity, indicating a nervous system in constant vigilance.

🔹 Hi-beta hyper-coherence, showing rigid over-connection in anxiety networks.

🔹 Incompatible coherence and phase lag, meaning the brain’s logic, emotion, and action centres aren’t always communicating smoothly.

QEEGs help explain why OCD can feel so relentless.

And neurofeedback can help slow the cycle.

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

01/05/2026

Started in undergrad, now we’re here.

Swipe to go back to 2014 ➡️

A decade of learning, unlearning, and building (together).

Deeply grateful for the kind of friendship that grows with you, personally and professionally. ❣️

01/02/2026

New Year’s resolutions are incredibly common.. and often not very helpful.

Not because people don’t care or aren’t trying, but because resolutions tend to rely on pressure and rigid expectations. ❌

It’s common to start the year with big intentions like “I’ll work out consistently” or “I need to stop scrolling so much.”

And then, when life gets busy or motivation dips, we turn on ourselves. 😖

From a therapeutic and neuroscience perspective, this makes sense!
 ➡️ Pressure activates the nervous system
➡️ Stress pulls the brain back toward familiar patterns
➡️ Self-criticism shuts down learning.

So when I talk about re-branding resolutions, I mean shifting them from rigid rules we’re supposed to “stick to,” into practices or experiments our brain can actually learn from.

Instead of:
 “I have to work out 5 days a week”

Try:
 “What happens if I move my body for 5 minutes?”

Instead of:
 “I need to stop scrolling”

Try:
 “What do I notice if I put my phone down 10 minutes earlier?”

No pass/fail.

Just information. ✨
 Lasting change happens when we lower the pressure, not the intention.

Cheers to 2026!

🤍🧠

12/30/2025

Your brain is always learning from experience..
. especially the small, repeated ones.

Neurofeedback works on this exact principle by giving your brain real-time information about its own activity.

Neurofeedback creates brief moments of adjustment and self-correction, often without you needing to “do” anything at all.

Over time, those moments add up and new neural pathways strengthen.
 By virtue of this, old patterns don’t have to work so hard to keep you safe.

This is often why something feels different before you can put it into words.

It’s not about forcing calm or fixing something that’s broken.
 It’s about giving your nervous system consistent practice in regulation.

Because real change doesn’t happen all at once.
 It happens gently, through repetition.
 And practice makes pathways. 🧠

12/28/2025

The one where teamwork felt a little like family.

*insert Friends theme song* 🎶

Different strengths, shared values, one very cozy couch.

Grateful is an understatement. 🧠❤️

09/24/2025

✌️💜🌊
 Because your brain deserves good vibes too.

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Kanata, ON

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http://www.brittanyduncantherapy.com/

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