Attuned
Neurofeedback
And The Attuned Neurofeedback International Training Program
An integrated approach to neurofeedback training
Welcome
Welcome to the Attuned Neurofeedback Website, hosted by Board Certified Neurofeedback Providers Ellen Shaw-Smith, LICSW, Dr. Clair Goldberg and Mirjana Askovic, BPsych (Hons). As developers of the Attuned Neurofeedback International Training Program Model we are excited to present the expert teachers and mentors found here.
Collectively we represent over 200 years of clinical neurofeedback experience in a range of environments including: mental health clinics and agencies, schools, forensic settings, medical and rehabilitative environments, research programs, and private practice venues. With our varied practice experiences and range of adjunct treatments, our common bond is found in our passion and belief in neurofeedback as a profound tool for healing and change.
What Sebern Fisher and Ruth Lanius have to say about ANF
Learn more about Sebern’s work with neurofeedback for developmental trauma in our Resources Area.
About Attuned Neurofeedback
Attuned Neurofeedback is deeply rooted in the work of brain training pioneers such as psychotherapist and neurofeedback clinician Sebern Fisher, MA, BCN, neuropsychologist and neurofeedback educator Dr. Ed Hamlin, and renowned trauma oriented brain researcher Dr. Ruth Lanius, all of whom are represented here in our clinical community of neurofeedback faculty and consultants.
With our focus on foundational neurofeedback training as traditionally taught, along with cutting-edge understanding of neurofeedback for the traumatized person, we teach an integrated approach to neurofeedback training relevant to all client populations.
About Attuned Neurofeedback
Our Attuned Neurofeedback Story
Making The Invisible Visible
Our Attuned Neurofeedback Story
Making The Invisible Visible
Click below to learn about the collaboration of ANF founders, Dr Clair Goldberg, BCN, Ellen Shaw-Smith, LICSW, BCN and Mirjana Askovic BPsych (Hons), BCN in bringing together this gifted website community of empirically based, client-centered providers. Learn about the inception of the Attuned Neurofeedback Model as it grew out of our work with Sebern Fisher and her application of neurofeedback for early trauma. Join us in our early conversations as we broadened our understanding of best neurofeedback practice from the work of our colleagues around the world. We are so pleased you are here now in this constantly growing and evolving world of neurofeedback education.
I’ve worked with four different providers, four different neurofeedback approaches and three different neurofeedback systems. Until I took Ellen’s course on Attuned Psychoeducation, it’s been hard for me to explain what is different about my relationship with my current provider and the psychoeducation he uses with me that has made an important difference in my brain training, self-development, and psychotherapy, Ellen’s course put words to my experiences. I now understand what those differences are and why they matter. The neurofeedback outcomes I enjoy today are the result of attuned neurofeedback and attuned psychoeducation while working with a skilled trauma therapist.
Attuned psychoeducation goes way beyond informing. It’s not a symptom remediation model. It’s a whole person model. It’s about embodied conversations. These conversations sometimes use metaphor. It’s about finding right brain and left brain ways to talk to people about their neurofeedback experiences. For me, it’s very different from explaining a brain map to me although understanding a brain map is helpful for some people.
When my provider uses metaphor to explain something to me, I feel it in my body. I absorb what he says. It becomes part of me and it stays with me when the session is over. Every time we meet, he treats me as a whole person in a relational way. He has a ‘knowing’ about how to be with me and how to talk to me. I now understand in a deeper way why attuned neurofeedback and attuned psychoeducation was the neurofeedback approach I needed especially because neglect is part of my history. I have come into existence. I deserve to live a fulfilling life. I’m moving toward peace.
Debbie Asplen Ingraham
Free Zoom Orientations
Join ANF for a free 30 minute Question and Answer Zoom meeting designed for those interested in becoming clinical neurofeedback providers.
To learn more about the attendance requirements and to register, click on the button below.
To discuss your attendance at the Free Zoom Orientations, please contact Ellen Shaw-Smith by completed the registration of interest form (United States and Europe) or ANFI (Australia and Asia):
Attuned Neurofeedback Education & Protocol Suite
Explore the Attuned Neurofeedback Learning Pathway, bringing together BCIA-approved education, the Attuned Protocol Suite and ongoing mentoring to support clinicians at every stage of their neurofeedback journey.
BCIA Certified Neurofeedback Didactic
Attuned (Divergence) Protocol Suite
Attuned Neurofeedback Mentoring
BCIA Certified Neurofeedback Didactic
Attuned (Divergence) Protocol Suite
Attuned Neurofeedback Mentoring
Step in with our ANF teachers as we explore this powerful technology through a lens that sees each person and each brain as unique in its search for regulation and optimal functioning.
In partnership with:
The Australian Neurofeedback Institute (ANFI) is a STARTTS program supporting refugee trauma recovery through neurofeedback, biofeedback and evidence-based therapy, while advancing education and training for mental health professionals.
Meet our faculty
Meet our team of leading clinicians, researchers and educators in the Neurofeedback field.
Meet our faculty
Meet our team of leading clinicians, researchers and educators in the Neurofeedback field.
ANF Resource Centre
Attuned Neurofeedback Articles and Blog
The organizers of the Trauma24 Conference reflect on the event’s vision and the groundbreaking teachings of Sebern Fisher and Drs Frank Corrigan and Ruth Lanius, highlighting the connections, discussions, and wisdom that made the conference so impactful.
This interview with Helena Bester occurred shortly before the October Trauma 24 Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. Helena, one of 4 committed neurofeedback providers who made Trauma 24 happen, has been a neurofeedback provider and pioneer in South Africa and Mozambique for almost 25 years.
In this rich audio interview we have the pleasure of speaking with Ewa Aho Nyman, a seasoned psychotherapist practicing in Stockholm Sweden. Ewa chats about her 30 years of practice and her work with neurofeedback and DBR in a generously open way.
What is Neurofeedback?
Neurofeedback is a non-invasive form of biofeedback that guides the brain toward its healthy natural functioning. Learn more about this brain-training technique and how it is used to improve the brain’s ability to self-regulate.