What is NeurOptimal®?

NeurOptimal® is a cutting-edge form of Dynamical Neurofeedback® designed to support your brain’s natural ability to self-regulate. Unlike traditional neurofeedback, it does not push your brain toward a specific state. Instead, it provides real-time feedback to your brain, helping it become aware of its own activity. This allows your nervous system to naturally adjust and self-correct, and return to a more stable, flexible, and optimal state.

Uses of NeurOptimal®

Research and Clinical experience has shown that NeurOptimal® can be beneficial in many areas, including:

• Trauma: Helps calm overactive survival responses and reduce hypervigilance and emotional reactivity. Promotes a greater sense of safety and well-being by helping the nervous system self-regulate more effectively.

• Stress & Anxiety: Supports the brain to shift out of chronic stress patterns by interrupting inefficient brain activity. This promotes relaxation, emotional balance, and greater resilience in the face of daily challenges.
• Sleep Issues: Helps regulate an overactive mind and shift out of stressful states and into more balanced states, promoting deeper, more restful sleep. 
• ADHD, Attention & Learning: Enhances the brain’s ability to maintain focus, manage impulses, and concentrate more effectively. Supports improvements in sustained attention, working memory, and overall cognitive flexibility.
• Autism Spectrum and Sensory Differences: Supports emotional and sensory regulation by assisting the brain in responding more flexibly to internal and external stimuli. Can help improve transitions, reduce stress responses, and build resilience in the face of sensory overwhelm. 
• Mood Regulation and Depression: Assists in stabilizing mood fluctuations and inefficient or dysregulated brain activity. Supports individuals experiencing depression, irritability, or emotional instability by promoting greater emotional balance. 
• Peak Performance: Enhances the brains ability to operate with greater clarity, presence, and efficiency under pressure. Used by athletes, performers, and professionals to enhance focus, creativity, and mental endurance. 
• General Well-Being: Encourages a more regulated, flexible, and adaptive brain state. Helps individuals feel more grounded, emotionally balanced, and present in everyday life. 

NeurOptimal® does not treat specific conditions directly; instead, it helps the brain function more efficiently—allowing improvements to naturally emerge in many areas of life.

How does it work?

1.  5 sensors total are placed on the scalp and ears to monitor brain activity.
2. You sit comfortably, listening to music and watching visuals for 33 minutes.
3. Whenever your brain shows signs of instability, stress or a rapid shift in state, the system provides an audible interruption in the music – this is the feedback.
4. This feedback alerts your brain to “reset” itself, gradually improving self-regulation, resilience, and flexibility.
5. Following your session, you will be administered a self-report questionnaire to help monitor changes and progress.

Sessions are approximately 45 minutes, with the NeurOptimal® lasting 33 minutes, allowing for approx.. 10 minutes to set up and wrap up the session. It is effortless, non-invasive, and suitable for all ages. You don’t need to “do” anything—the training happens naturally.

What does the research show?

Based on data from the Zengar Institute Inc, the developers of NeurOptimal®,

• 66% of clients reported significant improvement in in trauma symptoms after 11-20 sessions
• 64% of clients reported significant improvement in Anxiety, Panic, and Phobia symptoms after 11-20 sessions
• 86% of clients reported significant improvement in stress management after 11-20 sessions
• 67% and 60% of clients reported significant improvement in ADD/ADHD symptoms and attention/focus respectively after 11-20 sessions
• 46% of clients reported significant improvement in emotion regulation and sensory sensitivities among Autistic people after 11-20 sessions
• 72% of clients reported significant improvement in depression symptoms after 11-20 sessions
• 72% of clients reported significant improvement in sleep issues after 11-20 sessions

Your NeurOptimal® clinician will monitor your change in symptoms over the course of treatment and suggest adjustments with you based on your experience, changes, and needs.

Getting Started

Our clinic integrates NeurOptimal® sessions into treatment plans as a supportive tool for healing and recovery. 

Already working with a CFIR therapist? Ask them for a referral to NeurOptimal® services.

New to CFIR? Call or email us, or click “Book Appointment” below to get started.