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.

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

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.

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 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 is sometimes marketed as a magic bullet but it’s just a tool and it’s only one approach. There is extensive research showing that using relaxation skills ( biofeedback as well as other strategies) helps us access our body’s built-in self-regulation tools so we can feel and do better. The bottom line: When we self-regulate better, we’re better at just about everything else.

Biofeedback is a noninvasive therapy that measures involuntary bodily functions and provides feedback that lets you better control these functions, which helps you gain more control over your health. The goal is to help you make subtle changes to your body that result in a desired effect. Biofeedback primarily promotes relaxation, which may help relieve numerous conditions related to stress. It can also help with chronic pain, anxiety, headaches, and other conditions that might lead to substance

I use binaural sounds and meditation to reduce stress and anxiety related issues.

One of the types of biofeedback used is a naturally occurring beat-to-beat variation in heart rate variability. HRV is a crucial indicator of health and fitness, reflecting our ability to adapt to stress and environmental demands. Influenced by the autonomic nervous system, it measures the variation in time between each heartbeat. High HRV suggests better stress management, while low HRV indicates difficulty coping with stress, making it critical for overall health assessment.

Tele-sensing and Tele-programming

HeartMath is heart-focused meditation that can help you transition from feeling stressed to feeling calm. The goal of HeartMath is to obtain coherence and optional functioning within the body while decreasing the negative impact of depleting emotions such as anxiety and stress.  Studies have shown that regular use of HeartMath decreases anxiety, fatigue and depression and improves sleep and focus.

I have training in stress management and resiliency training (S.M.A.R.T) to use heart rate variation and breathing to identify and mitigate stress responses.

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.