Lora Lonsberry, Ph.D.

05/14/2020

Covid-19 Communiqué:
Greetings once again,
Week one with a return to neurotherapy after the spring shut-down went quite well.
Upon arrival now everyone sanitizes their hands and my new medical temperature-scan can read their temperature.
So far most of us here in Montana enjoy the relative safety of our geographical buffer, but as the nation tries to reopen businesses, our protection may not last and another shut-down could be necessary.
In the mean time, some patients retain their masks through our brain-training sessions while for others the extra sanitation efforts provide enough safety.
Please know that you are welcome to return to brain training practice as you feel comfortable. A totally blossoming garden and flowing stream await your return.
My very best,
Lora Lonsberry Ph.D.

07/23/2019

Hello All,
Just wanted to share this wonderful testimonial that I received from one of my current clients. It is so rewarding for someone to have such success with the neurofeedback treatments.

From Ann R.
Treatment for Mitigating Pain and Creating a New Life

Have you exhausted every method to control your pain? Are you spending your life feeling overwhelmed while you watch others in enjoyment? Did you know a technique called neurofeedback exists? It is a computerized brain training course.
From my own experience both of these conditions were a part of my life. After years of numerous surgeries, lab tests, and supplements with the outcome of minimal results I thought the only choice was to accept myself with these conditions. Then some of my friends told me about neurofeedback, and I thought would try it. The results have been phenomenal and more than words could describe in this simple testimonial, but I will try my best. I was amazed when something had the power to communicate with my disorganized brain. The effects were obvious. I now have completed twenty sessions and intend on completing the remaining twenty sessions recommended for optimal results. These are just a few of the results that I have experienced since I started treatment; increase in joy, increase in social interaction, increased self esteem, better sleep, ability to get up in the mornings, decreased pain, freedom of overwhelmed brain, and measurable results in sports performance.
Dr. Lora Lonsberry is an extremely knowledgeable practitioner, and is capable of applying her knowledge to create the most effective protocols based on your specific brain and daily results. Her computers at her office allow her to see the function of the different areas of the brain during treatment. This information can correlate to trauma that has occurred some ones life. If that trauma is not fully processed it affects the functioning of the brain.
What is so cool is that you just hook yourself up to the computer and the programs are designed to release the trauma. After completion of the treatments you will have full function of your brain. I am so excited to see my full potential.
In addition to this Dr. Lora Lonsberry is an extremely pleasant and professional practitioner. Her gorgeous place of practice provides a relaxing and welcoming atmosphere. I highly recommend her services to anyone that is seeking measurable results in the quality of their life.

12/20/2018

We LOVE hearing feedback from our clients, especially when it impacts their lives so greatly! Wondering if biofeedback is effective? Read our testimonials on Google and call us to schedule an appointment!

12/11/2018

Hi all,
My new 2019 Calendar of quotes from around the world and through out time that address our evolving relationships with the planet and each other is now available on Etsy at this link

https://www.etsy.com/listing/652457992/2019-calendar-of-quotes-for-the-larger?ref=listing_published_alert

My very best, Lora

This is a calendar of quotes from around the world and through out time addressing our evolving relationships with the planet and each other. Photos of my gardens and views. 8.5 x 11 inches bound and punched for hanging.

11/27/2018

We LOVE hearing feedback from our clients, especially when it impacts their lives so greatly! Wondering if biofeedback is effective? Read a testimonial from a mother of one of our patients and call us to schedule an appointment!
"My 11 yr old daughter has benefited greatly by the neurofeedback brain training with Dr. Lora Lonsberry. Our pediatric neurologist had recommended neurofeedback brain training for our daughter.

My daughter has been experiencing a complex seizure disorder that began 18 months ago. During this time her condition had caused many cognitive deficits, impaired her general well-being and activity levels.

The last three months of brain training with Dr. L have been life-changing for my daughter. My daughter’s seizure count decreased dramatically. Her energy and activity levels returned to normal.

Before she started seeing Dr. Lonsberry, my daughter basically lived on the couch and couldn’t tolerate normal activity levels. She couldn’t tolerate doing her schoolwork for more than 30 minutes at a time. She had difficulty learning her math and retaining what she had learned. She had a hard time staying focused on her studies. When people were talking to her, she seemed despondent and depressed.

We saw steady, consistent and dramatic improvement in all these areas after 3 months of brain training with Dr. Lonsberry. It was gradual improvement for the first month and then at a much faster pace the second and third month. I share this because I think it’s important to invest the time and allow the accumulative progress that will occur from one brain training session to the next.

Dr. Lonsberry is a highly skilled neurofeedback brain trainer. I observed that she was very focused and driven for my daughter to get the most out of each brain training session. I highly recommend her abilities and excellent professionalism. I also appreciated her expectation of feedback from my daughter on every returning appointment. Also Lora was very accommodating in the event we had to cancel or reschedule an appointment."
- Melanie

11/07/2018

AN END TO MIGRAINES - A TESTIMONIAL FOR BRAIN TRAINING
After over 50 years of “conventional medicine”, smatterings of alternative and holistic therapies and countless theories, drugs and promises, I was fortunate enough to find Dr. Lora Lonsberry. She is a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and also happens to be an excellent practitioner of neurofeedback. After a thorough assessment together we prioritized my problems.
Oddly enough I went mostly to get marital counseling and wound up confronted with my long-standing depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem and my ‘cross to bear,’ it seemed, in life; what the medical profession called ‘intractable migraines’. . . In other words they said, “we’ve tried all the drugs we can think of and the side-effects are too numerous and serious to continue and they have only adversely effected your migraines!” Their final advice, basically “Take two aspirin and DON’T call again.” As a nurse myself, I had concluded over a forty year period that no weapon in the arsenal of prescription drugs-for-everything offered by conventional medicine could help me.
When we went over my treatment plan together, I’ll admit, I was skeptical but willing to try “One More Thing.” After four training sessions my migraines were gone. For the first time since I was thirteen years old I have not had even a tension headache since the day of my fourth session. It’s like a whole new world has opened up for me.
As a side benefit, (which is the understatement of the century!), I have felt my confidence return and my incentive and creativity bounce back at a level of productivity I have not had in years. I look forward to each new day with curiosity and appreciation for the “little things” that used to leave me in one of my funks unaware of what I took for granted. One morning after washing my face, I looked in the mirror and said out loud, “I’m back!!” I could see the person who was competent and full of life. It was like meeting my best friend after a long absence.
Very Sincerely, AM, R.N.

10/15/2018

“The Polynesians are waving at us as we go over. . . “
Your Brain With Neurotherapy
Imagine . . . you are a NASA scientist at Mission Control when the first astronauts are orbiting the planet in the 1960’s, and you hear the message come in . . . “. . . the Polynesian islanders are waiving at us as we go over.” This is just what happened and, from under raised eyebrows, a plan was hatched to test the levels of hydrazine to which the orbiting astronauts were exposed. Enough, it seemed, to be causing hallucinations in outer space.
Scientists at Mission Control assigned Dr. Barry Stermans to run a four-level test exposing cats to increasing levels of hydrazine. Among the cats that Dr. Stermans placed trials were some with which he had been conducting previous neurofeedback trials. But what he found was puzzling at first. The cats that didn’t have seizures or perish were those pre-trained with neurofeedback which tends to teach the brain self-regulation.
Curious investigators then made the leap to using neurofeedback to stabilize the brains of children with intractable seizures; those with brain storms that weren’t responding to the volleys of meds doctors were extolling. In short order and surpassing the efficacy of medications, children who had not been helped began to have fewer and then no more seizures as they trained their brains with neurofeedback.
This is how the field of EEG Biofeedback, Neurofeedback, or Neurotherapy was founded: upon the question, “What is this you can train a cat’s brain to do to off-set the toxic effects of jet fuel?” In the 30 years since these first discoveries, practitioners of biofeedback have found many ways of training one’s brain to improve the experience of moment-to-moment living. Since then it has been used to create self-regulation in many kinds of brains. This means happier, in-the-moment, fluid, efficient and effective emotional, cognitive and regulatory processes when alone and with others. Many people have returned to richer lives with more vibrancy and quiescence when they learn to turn down the internal noise and how to get into flow; thus becoming less depressed, less anxious, more calmly observant and sharply efficient.
With brain training, people learn to focus their awareness to build a better architecture for enjoying life. Unlike administering some drug from an outside authority, for which you continue to pay, neurofeedback changes your brain; trains it in how to make different default choices. Gains made during training continue through time even after even training ceases. Your default-mode of choices changes through time and training; most people meet their goals by training for the standard 20 hours.
This is the story of Lila, who arrived in June from Louisiana, and at the age of 11 had begun experiencing partial seizures as frequently as 20 per day over the previous nine months. The official working medical hypothesis regarded the seizures’ origin as Lyme infection. From collapsing helplessly into her father’s loving arms, Lila’s changes were readily noted and celebrated as she became able to breathe through partial seizures with self-sufficiency.
By the end of the first week of training, Lila was having fewer partial seizures (just a few each day), and was developing more confidence for moving through them. By the end of a month of training two or three times/ week, Lila reported only one recent seizure. Her demeanor became ebullient, talkative and warmly engaging with glistening eye contact and had with a lilt in her step. Her goal was to return to the normal that she used to know and she achieved that reality without brain storms as we wrapped up our sessions.
If neurofeedback training can off-set the toxic effects of jet fuel on one’s brain, think what it could do for the efficacy and happiness of your brain. Call 406-752-6634 for a neurotherapy consultation in Kalispell, MT.

09/13/2018

What do Dying, Depression, Obsession, and Eating Disorders share?
For someone addicted to the choices they always make, the value of neurofeedback is in the new perspective – at once obvious and profound – that it opens into one’s life and habits. Addiction is a story we get stuck in; a story that gets reinforced every time we try and fail to quit: ‘I am an overeater/smoker and I am powerless to stop.’
Brain training allows a person to get some distance, to see the bigger picture and to see the short-term pleasures of eating/smoking in the larger, longer-term context of their lives. It allows a recontextualization of an old habit – breath by focused breath.
Very often in neurofeedback training, choice points become visible. One learns how to focus her attention, not so much on the toxic, shaming, critical inner voice, but on how to stop the brain from inhibiting of other elements of the present moment experience. Neurofeedback can be used to change all sorts of behaviors, not just addictions. It’s like a slow and gentle reboot of the system – a managed control-alt-delete.
Many of us have an addiction to a pattern of thinking with the self at the center. Neurofeedback allows people to achieve an overview effect on their lives, making possible a shift in worldview and priorities that allows them to let go of old habits, sometimes with remarkable ease. “Smoking became irrelevant. So I stopped.”
This underlying addiction to a pattern of thinking, or cognitive style, links the addict to the depressive and to the cancer patient obsessed with death or recurrence. Following is a quote from Mathew Johnson about just this kind of addiction:
“So much of human suffering stems from having this self that needs to be psychologically defended at all costs. We’re trapped in a story that sees ourselves as independent, isolated agents acting in the world. But that self is an illusion. It can be a useful illusion, when you’re swinging through the trees or escaping from a cheetah or trying to do your taxes. But at the systems level, there is no truth to it. You can take any number of more accurate perspectives: that we’re a swarm of genes, vehicles for passing on DNA; that we’re social creatures through and through, unable to survive alone; that we’re organisms in an ecosystem, linked together on this planet floating in the middle of nowhere. Wherever you look, you see that the level of interconnectedness is truly amazing, and yet we insist on thinking of ourselves as individual agents.”
Dying, depressions, obsession, eating disorders – all are exacerbated by the tyranny of an ego and the fixed narratives it constructs about our relationship to the world. By gradually overturning that tyranny and exercising our minds into an especially pliable state, that plasticity gives us an opportunity to propose some new, more constructive stories about the self and its relationship to the world.
By removing the automatic defensiveness built into and reinforced through life’s experiences, neurofeedback makes it easier to step proactively into healthier, more compassionate (for self and others) rhythms, characterized by more meaning, happiness, resilience and relational connectivity.
The Universe’s technological assistance for our “optical delusion of consciousness” brain patterning is available. To begin training in Kalispell call: 406 752 6634. Or visit www.loralonsberry.com

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” Albert Einstein

08/30/2018

Flow is a mental state in which a person is completely immersed in what engages her or him. The individual feels focused, energized and totally involved. There is a merging of action with acute awareness. Flow is best represented by a sense of being at one with things. We can apply this concept to the flow of nerve impulses and chemicals in the brain and show how it affects our mind’s focus and efficiency.
These Impulses and chemicals act like any addictive substance and keep us locked into automatic emotional behaviors. Both the external stimulus and the internal reaction create physical-emotional responses that activate automatic thoughts that keep us reacting to life in the way we always do.
The modern term for this suffering is “stress,” with which we have all become familiar. Stress responses can create a negative loop in our body-mind interface that keeps repeating itself over and over. What is exciting is that our habitual emotional responses can be changed or transformed by a shift in how we use our mind. Training with neurofeedback creates a more flexible inner architecture and learned knowledge sources your downstream experience toward better self-regulation and FLOW .
Read the full article here https://bit.ly/2Po7ACN

05/25/2018

Retrain your brain – no medications needed!
Neurofeedback has been proven to change the brain – to change timing in the brain. When the brain is functioning at its best, the need for medications is minimal. No pills can TEACH you how to change your own brain. But with proper training, you can IMPROVE the brain and LEARN to overcome the symptoms of many conditions. These improvements cut across disorders, including depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD, OCD, and far more. Unlike medications, once you’ve learned how to manage your brain and mind better, you’ll remember what you’ve learned and no longer need ongoing training! Ready to find out more and start retraining your brain? Call Lora Lonsberry Ph.D. at (406) 752-6634 or visit our website for more details!

04/23/2018

Change your Brain: Evolve your Mind

The human brain has the ability to constantly change and adapt to external conditions. The brain’s ability to remold itself opens up enormous possibilities for us to learn to train our minds and change our brains leading to a more refined and satisfying quality of life.

By training the mind, it is possible to alter the brain’s neuronal connections that are responsible for emotions, behaviors, and perceptions, and thereby reshape the brain structure and change the way the brain functions.

An overview of scientific perspectives on the brain/mind shows how personally evolving your own brain can help change your life in any direction you desire. From brain training, it is possible to discover a new way of being in the world and an increased sense of emotional balance and physical health.

At the most basic level, brain training improves mental stability and bestows a healthier immune system. A stable, focused, and calm mind reduces stress, which results in less illness and emotional fatigue.

The neuroplasticity and adaptability of the brain is the leading edge of your own personal evolution. You can heal your mind and discover your home base within: a source of peace, calm, and vitality in your life.

Find the full article here - https://vlnk.io/2HoSugw
Visit www.loralonsberry.com for more information on changes without medications.