Biofeedback

When exercising mind-body connection, Biofeedback is a great option as this technique helps achieve greater awareness of physiological complaints and needs with the ultimate goal of alleviating symptoms and improving overall health and performance. Biofeedback can teach you to control your bodies response to stressful situations and is often used to treat anxiety, depression, and performance related issues.

Manhattan Mental Health Counseling has a resident biofeedback practitioner. Rene Gonzalez specializes in biofeedback therapy.

Biofeedback is integral to my practice, focusing on the powerful interplay between mind and body. Understanding this connection is key to achieving holistic wellness. By harnessing biofeedback, we explore how thoughts and emotions influence physiological responses. This comprehensive approach allows us to enhance not only mental health but also overall well-being. It's a journey towards balance, where mind and body work harmoniously for your optimal health and vitality.

We use a form of biofeedback called neurofeedback to treat ADHD, anxiety, and trauma.

I learned biofeedback with in-patient addictions clients while working on a MISA Unit. I furthered my training working at Shirley Ryan Ability Lab's (formerly Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) Pain Management Center with chronic pain patients in their out painting clinic.

Biofeedback has been found to be effective for treating headache, arthritis, anxiety, insomnia, alcohol dependence and many other problems. Biofeedback can show you how your body reacts physically so you can alter your responses to decrease your pain, anxiety, etc.

I utilize numerous manual therapies and self guided tactile methods.

Do you know why you wear a Fit-bit? We can use your data to understand your quality of life, your sensitivity, your baseline, your health! If you have ever looked at your blood-pressure, or analyzed your Fit-bit data, you have a good understanding of how we use Biofeedback in the mental health clinic! When you understand the benefit of therapy and begin progressing, sometimes we can see the benefits by looking at your vital signs or vice versa.

Tele-sensing and Tele-programming

I use Neurofeedback and HRV to help my clients be in control of their attention, emotions and energy levels. A lot of therapy is spent teaching clients how to regulate these processes, with Neurofeedbak and HRV people can achieve these goals much faster, which then allows therapy to be more productive. Clients report less reactivity, better focus, less energy and mood ups and downs and better sleep.

I offer Heart Rate Variability (HRV) biofeedback using HeartMath technology, which is an innovative approach to improving emotional wellbeing. With HeartMath tools, you learn to change your heart rhythm pattern to create physiological coherence; a scientifically measurable state characterized by increased order and harmony in our mind, emotions and body.

emWave technology from HeartMath®, a nonprofit organization that researches the science of intuition and the heart brain, gives biofeedback on heart rate variability (HRV) or how rhythmic our breath is. In turn, this indicates how coherent our thoughts are. This is a powerful way to monitor mindfulness and presence, allowing our smartest brain to lead our day to day decisions for more flow, ease and joy.

I am trained and experienced and offer EEG Neurofeedback as another tool to aide the therapy process. My experience using the tool has made me very excited to see the outcomes and how helpful clients are finding it to be. I am experienced using the tool to treat anxiety, depression, and ADHD/ADD and I have found it to be an excellent tool that only enhances and speeds the recovery and growth process. individuals who have struggled with symptoms for many years.

HeartMath is a form of biofeedback. We monitor your heart rate and simultaneously teach you strategies to make your heart rate more consistent. When folks suffer from anxiety, stress, or depression, the heart rate changes. Our autonomic nervous system can work in hyperdrive and we have to begin to teach our body to regulate itself. When our heart rate increases, it tells our brain we are in "fight or flight" mode. I've personally found this modality to be very effective.