What Is Biofeedback Therapy?

What is Biofeedback Therapy page created 07-14-2024 by Lucrezia Mangione, LCPC, NCC, BC-TMH, DCEP

What Is Biofeedback Therapy and How Can It Help You?

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Biofeedback is a gentle, non-invasive, and non-drug technique. It empowers you to enhance your body's natural ability to regulate your own body processes. If you’ve ever wondered what is biofeedback therapy, this is it: a method that allowsyou to deeply 'listen' to your body and make adjustments so that you improve your health and well-being. Imagine having a superpower that helps you tune into the subtle signals your body sends so that you can change how you respond to those signals. This is the essence of Biofeedback.

Feeling Overwhelmed by Intense Emotions?

Or the stress of your daily life?

Biofeedback offers a path to regain control of how you react or respond to inner or outer stressors. By doing so, you can create an improved sense of peace. It's especially healing for empathetic individuals and those who are highly sensitive. Why? It helps you manage and reduce your stress, anxiety, and physical discomfort by reducing the impact of becoming overloaded by overwhelm or overcome by overstimulation.

The Essentials of Biofeedback Therapy

Biofeedback Helps You Learn from Your Body

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Biofeedback is a device that uses technology to monitor different functions of your body—things like your heart rate, muscle tension, skin temperature, etc. Sensors attached to your body send information to a display. This "feedback" on the screen gives real-time information and insights into how your body responds to stressors.

Biofeedback is like having a personal coach. It shows how your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors affect your physical state. It also shows the impact on your body when those thoughts, feelings, and behaviors change for the positive or negative. The goal is to learn techniques to control your responses or reactions that can then help calm your heartbeat, relax tense muscles, or help you focus better and more. The more you practice, the more intuitive they become. And the easier it helps you to navigate day-to-day interactions and challenges.

Types of Biofeedback

Electromyography (EMG)

EMG Biofeedback monitors muscle activity to help you learn to manage muscle tension better. This is especially helpful if you carry tension and have trouble relaxing your body.

Thermal Biofeedback: This type of Biofeedback reads your body temperature. It shows you how your emotions and thoughts affect your physical state. It works like a thermometer for your stress levels. You can see your temperature when you feel 'hot under the collar' so that you learn how to 'cool down.'


Neurofeedback (EEG Biofeedback)

This form of Biofeedback senses your brain's activity or brain waves. It can help improve focus, reduce anxiety, improve mood, cultivate emotional regulation, and address other mental health concerns. This is the type of Biofeedback offered at Mind Body Well Therapy, Pllc. Learn more here.

Heart Rate Variability (HRV)

This Biofeedback helps you manage your heart rate. It is also great for improving your emotional regulation and reducing anxiety.

How Biofeedback Supports Holistic Health

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Biofeedback is about working with your body. It's about actively participating in your health and recovery. It's a supportive power tool in your mental health care toolbox, providing relief for anxiety and depression. You learn how to manage your symptoms and experiences, which lowers your anxiety or depression.

As a highly sensitive person who experiences overstimulation and has a depth of emotional feeling, managing your emotional health can be particularly challenging. Biofeedback can help you gain more control over your emotional responses in a gentle yet powerful way. It enables you to develop a deeper connection with your physical body. It strengthens the mind-body connection. It promotes a better balance so your heart naturally shifts more open and feels less burdened. It can bring you into a feeling of being more grounded and centered. It can lead to improved emotional resilience while cultivating easier access to feelings of ease and peace.

Biofeedback supports better physical health as well. It is used to relieve chronic pain, reduce migraines, and address gastrointestinal disorders. It works well and integrates into prescribed medical approaches. It encourages a holistic approach to health, allowing you to engage proactively in your recovery on your road to wellness.

The Science Behind Biofeedback

The effectiveness of Biofeedback is backed by decades of research. Since the 1960s, studies have shown its success in treating various conditions, enhancing physiological control, and improving quality of life. Biofeedback is a credible, respected practice because of the strong evidence of its benefits:

  • improving focus
  • managing depression
  • reducing anxiety
  • alleviating symptoms of overwhelm and overstimulation
  • helping migraine headaches
  • managing chronic pain
  • Managing high blood pressure

Biofeedback for Highly Sensitive Woman

A Personalized Path to Wellness

Imagine your sensitivity becoming your greatest strength. Mind Body Well Therapy, Pllc specializes in the unique needs of the highly sensitive person. Using EEG Biofeedback, also called neurofeedback, a holistic brain training plan is co-created—one that can potentially help you strengthen the mental fitness of your sensitive brain and improve the possibility of crossing the finish line of your goals. It's customized. It's personalized. It addresses your immediate concerns and moves you forward in promoting long-term resilience and well-being.

Ready to Harness the Potential of EEG Biofeedback?

Want to heal and reduce your overstimulation and anxiety while strengthening your mental health? Discover another way to shift to your next level of wellness and enhance your life.
Contact us to start your journey with EEG Biofeedback. Unlock the potential for a more balanced path to your mental health wellness.

Thanks for stopping by and learning more about what is biofeedback therapy—I hope this helped you feel more informed and inspired about your next steps.

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Lucrezia Mangione supports anxious, highly sensitive women in fine-tuning focus, building emotional steadiness, and embracing the strengths of sensitivity. She also partners with therapists and helping professionals to offer brain-based care for clients who feel stuck or stalled. Her integrative approach helps clients feel calm, steady, and spacious—living and working on their own terms.

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Lucrezia Mangione, LCPC, LPC, NCC, BC-TMH, DCEP  · Clinical Director & Licensed Professional Counselor at Mind Body Well Therapy, PLLC · Licensed by the CT Dept. of Public Health, VA Board of Professional Counselors & MD Board of Professional Counselors & Therapists · Board Certified as a Counselor by the National Board for Certified Counselors and as a TeleMental Health Provider by the Center for Credentialing & Education · Candidate for Board Certification in Neurofeedback (BCN) through BCIA; trained in EEG Neurofeedback at the Institute for Applied Neuroscience.


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