Afton Therapy

11/18/2025

When the brain enters a state of hyperarousal, it begins operating at speeds that are far too fast. This “overactive” state can make everyday sounds—breathing, chewing, tapping, clicking—feel unbearable. For many, these noises don’t just irritate; they trigger overwhelm, panic, or a flood of emotional and physical discomfort.

This isn’t a character flaw. It’s a brain-based response.

When brainwave frequencies become unbalanced and excessively fast, the nervous system loses its ability to filter or tolerate sensory input. The world feels louder. Stress feels heavier. And the smallest stimuli can feel like too much.

Brain mapping (qEEG) allows us to see this clearly.
It reveals whether a person’s brain is stuck in anxious, high-frequency patterns—and most importantly, it shows us where the imbalance begins.

With neurofeedback, we can retrain these patterns.
We gently teach the brain how to shift out of hyperarousal and into homeostasis—where calm, focus, and emotional regulation become possible again.

If noises feel overwhelming or your brain feels “always on,” there is a neurological reason… and there is a path back to peace.

Afton Therapy specializes in brain mapping and neurofeedback to help restore balance to the brain and ease to the mind.

11/17/2025

11/17/2025

Have you ever wondered what your brain is actually doing beneath the surface?

At Afton Therapy, we are one of the leading clinics in Brain Mapping (qEEG analysis), and this technology is transforming the way people understand their mental and emotional health.

The truth is, many brains run in non-optimal frequencies—not because something is “wrong,” but because the brain has adapted to stress, trauma, inflammation, or long-term patterns. These irregular frequencies often show up as:
• Brain fog
• Ruminating thoughts
• Trouble focusing
• Sleep issues
• Anxiety or depression
• Emotional overwhelm
• Attention and learning difficulties

A brain map reveals the WHY behind these symptoms.
By seeing exactly how your brain is functioning, you gain clarity and validation—and an individualized path toward healing.
Clients often say that understanding their brain brings relief, hope, and motivation, because everything finally makes sense.

At Afton Therapy, we specialize in healing from the top down and the inside out:
🧠 Neurofeedback to rewire and optimize the brain
💛 Psychotherapy to address the emotions of the heart
🌿 Cellular-level healing (when appropriate) to support the body

When the brain, heart, and body align, holistic wellness becomes possible.

📅 Evening appointments now available for Brain Mapping.

Are you curious what your brain would reveal?

Your journey to clarity, healing, and optimal functioning starts with a map.

Send a message or visit Afton Therapy to schedule your session.

11/05/2025

✨ BIG NEWS — Afton Therapy Has a New Home in Woodbury! ✨

I am beyond excited to share that Afton Therapy is now located in a beautiful new space in Woodbury in partnership with Midwest Minds. This move represents a fresh chapter of growth, healing, and expanded access for the clients and families I love serving.

To best meet the needs of students and working professionals, I offer therapy appointments on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursday evenings—time slots intentionally designed so students don’t miss school and business professionals don’t miss work.

Afton Therapy specializes in:
✍🏻Psychological assessment for attention-related concerns
☺️Psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, and situational stress
💚Support for the emotional and mental health challenges that accompany chronic illness
🧠Remote neurofeedback, allowing clients to train their brain from home

Afton Therapy operates from a mind-body, top-down, inside-out approach—
✅ Neurofeedback rewires the brain
✅ Psychotherapy heals the emotions of the heart
✅ Lifestyle recommendations support the cellular and internal systems of the body
Together, these create powerful, lasting change.

With over 20 years of experience working with adolescents, I bring a strength-based approach alongside deep empathy, compassion, and genuine connection. And now, as nearly all active clients have met their treatment goals and successfully completed therapy, I am grateful to have space to welcome new clients into this next season.

If you’re ready to holistically heal your mind, body, and soul, I would love to walk with you on that journey.
💬 Reach out to schedule an appointment at Afton Therapy’s new Woodbury location!

✨ Now accepting new clients. ✨

11/05/2025

The Power of Training Your Brain for Better Sleep.

Most people think sleep problems begin in the body—but more often, they begin in the brain. When your mind races at night, your brain shifts into faster frequencies that are meant for thinking, planning, and staying alert. These high-speed brainwaves are the exact opposite of what you need for rest.

When cognition stays “on,” sleep stays “off.”
This is why lying in bed with nonstop thoughts, mental lists, worries, or replaying the day can make it nearly impossible to fall asleep or stay asleep. Your brain is simply operating in the wrong frequency range.

Neurofeedback changes that.
Neurofeedback retrains the brain to access calmer, slower frequencies—especially the ones linked to peaceful rest, deep relaxation, and the transition into sleep. With consistent training, the brain forms new neural pathways that make it easier to “shift down” at night.

The goal is simple:
✅ Turn off cognition
✅ Activate slower frequencies
✅ Create a calm, peaceful, no-thinking state that invites sleep

When the brain quiets, the body can finally follow—and this matters because true healing only happens when the brain is calm and the body is asleep.

This is where Afton Therapy stands apart.
We are one of the only local clinics specializing in remote neurofeedback, allowing clients to train their brains from the comfort of their own bed. Many clients even fall asleep during sessions as their brain naturally drops into those restorative slow-wave patterns.

Afton Therapy has officially moved locations and is now accepting new clients.
If better sleep, quieted thoughts, and deeper healing are goals for you or your child, this is your sign.

✨ Your brain can learn how to rest. Let us show you how. ✨

10/29/2025

Aligning the Heart and Brain for True Healing 💫

At Afton Therapy, we believe that healing isn’t one-dimensional—it’s a full-body connection between the brain, heart, and gut. Each plays a vital role in your emotional, mental, and physical well-being.

🧠 Neurofeedback heals the brain. By retraining brainwave patterns, we calm overactive circuits, improve focus, and restore balance. This helps the mind become more resilient, flexible, and capable of emotional regulation.

❤️ Psychotherapy heals the heart. It reconnects us to our purpose, emotions, and inner truth. When we process pain, release stored trauma, and allow compassion to flow, the heart begins to synchronize with the brain—creating a state of coherence that science shows improves mood, immunity, and decision-making.

🌿 Cellular repair supports the gut. The gut produces nearly 95% of our serotonin, along with other neurotransmitters vital for mental health. Through nutrition, supplementation, and lifestyle repair, we optimize the body’s inner ecosystem so that it can naturally produce what the brain and heart need to thrive.

When the brain and heart are aligned, coherence is achieved. Thoughts and feelings begin to work in harmony instead of conflict. You think clearer, love deeper, and live with more purpose.

Healing isn’t linear—it’s top-down, inside-out.
At Afton Therapy, we make that connection possible.

✨ Heal the brain. Restore the heart. Strengthen the soul.

10/23/2025

🧠 Understanding the Brain Changes Everything

When working with individuals struggling with mental health challenges, focus and attention difficulties, or sleep disturbances — or even those seeking to elevate their performance in academics, athletics, or business — it’s essential to look deeper than symptoms.

By assessing brain functionality, we can visually see how a person’s brain is operating. These brain maps (like the one shown here) reveal areas of over- or under-activity, helping clients understand why they feel, think, and perform the way they do.

Once we can see the patterns, we can train the brain to work more efficiently. Neurofeedback — or brain training — allows the brain to rewire itself for optimal functioning. Over time, individuals experience improved focus, emotional regulation, sleep, and overall performance.

When the brain operates in balance, every area of life improves — from calm in the classroom, to clarity in the boardroom, to confidence on the field.

✨ See your brain. Train your brain. Transform your life.

10/09/2025

🧠✨ Your Brain Holds the Blueprint for Healing and Peak Performance ✨🧠

What if I told you that everything from your mood, focus, sleep, motivation, and memory — to your ability to heal and perform at your highest potential — is written in the electrical patterns of your brain?

That’s exactly what a qEEG (quantitative EEG) brain map reveals.
This powerful, non-invasive assessment measures your brainwave activity in real time and shows where the brain is underactive, overactive, or out of sync. These patterns often explain why you might be struggling with:

Anxiety, depression, or mood swings
Brain fog and poor focus
Sleep issues and chronic fatigue
ADHD or trauma-related symptoms
Sluggish cognitive performance

Once we see your unique brain map, we don’t guess — we target. Using personalized neurofeedback training, we gently teach your brain to self-correct and optimize its activity. Over time, this leads to real, measurable changes in how you think, feel, and perform.

💡 Think of it like going to the gym — but for your brain.
Each session builds stronger neural connections, balances brainwave activity, and unlocks your body’s natural capacity for resilience, healing, and peak performance.

Whether your goal is better mental health, overcoming chronic symptoms, or reaching elite cognitive performance — it starts with understanding your brain.

📍 Ready to see what your brain is capable of? A single qEEG map could change the way you heal, grow, and thrive.

08/27/2025

🌿 Honored & Grateful 🌿

I am deeply honored to be featured as a mental health practitioner with Myndlift, alongside other incredible clinicians who are advancing holistic healing.

In my practice, I integrate neurofeedback, psychotherapy, and cellular support to create full mind, body, spirit well-being:
✨ Neurofeedback rewires the brain for optimal function
✨ Psychotherapy heals the emotions of the heart
✨ Cellular healing supports resilience from the inside out

Healing is not one-dimensional—it begins from the top down and ripples through every part of who we are. 💙

I am grateful to be part of a community helping individuals experience true transformation, strength, and vitality.

08/06/2025

🧠 KNOW THE BRAIN. EMPOWER THE CHILD.

As the school year begins, understanding how your child learns is everything.

✨ ADHD isn’t a label — it’s a lens.

✅ Testing now helps unlock tools and accommodations that support:
• Focus
• Confidence
• Emotional regulation
• Academic success

📚 Don’t wait. Test early.
🧠 Afton Therapy has immediate openings and will provide a detaled report within days that includes recommendations for accommodations at school and at home
🎯 Advocate from Day 1.
💡 Let them thrive all year long.

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07/31/2025

As a mental health practitioner with speciality in psychological assessments for brain functionality, I love how research based testing tools accurately coincide and match up.
I have used the T.O.V.A. (Test of Variables of Attention) for many years to analyze cognitive processing speed, consistency, hyperactivity, impulse, distractibility, and concentration.
For the past two years, I have added Quantitative Electroencephalogram (qEEG) or Brain Mapping.
The data from a qEEG reveals frequencies in different areas of the brain that correlate with mental functioning.
When an individual struggles with issues related to attention, we often see excess Theta (slow) speeds in the front part of the brain.
We also see a deficiency in the frontal region of Lo-Beta, which is the perfect brainwave for a calm, focus, clarity in cognition.
The images below show how different testing tools lead to the same conclusion.
The data does not lie, and this client's mind is now at ease in knowing that her mental health and difficulty with work performance are due to her brainwaves rather than being lazy, which she has heard from others in her life for years!
Her treatment of choice...neurofeedback.
By training and rewiring her brain, we will enhance Lo-Beta in the frontal region and inhibit the unwanted slow speeds in the area of her brain.
Neurofeedback is a powerful option for those who struggle with issues related to attention, along with so much more!

07/22/2025

What an absolute honor it is to be featured as a neurofeedback clinician discussing how brain science and mental health are so closely interrelated!

Discover how Afton Therapy combines neurofeedback and psychotherapy to help clients reduce anxiety, depression, and overwhelm by training the brain for lasting emotional balance and resilience.