In 1993, I opened EEG Spectrum Northshore, in Northbrook, IL (just outside Chicago), my first Neurofeedback practice. My son had been diagnosed with ADD, but none of the approaches were helping. I stumbled upon information about Neurofeedback and since there were no providers in my area. I took my first EEG Neurofeedback training with Sue and Siegfried Othmer.

Since then I have studied with many of the real pioneers of this field, Dr, Barry Sterman, Dr, Joel Lubar, Jay Gunkelman, Michael and Lynda Thompson and many others. I have friends in the field, my colleagues, like Sebern Fisher, Bessel van der Kolk, John Nash and many others. Our field is wonderfully open and sharing of the knowledge we all find useful.

My original office was located in The Center on Deafness and most of my first experience was with the deaf children who attended school at this facility. It was an amazing opportunity and allowed for really good outcomes for many.

I am a Registered Nurse and I have worked in both medical and psychiatric hospital settings. My Northbrook practice remained open for 11 years and involved seeing progressively more complicated individuals. This practice offered many opportunities to see children, some with fairly simple presentations and those with co-morbid and more complicated difficulties such as Autism, Tourette’s disorder, sensory integration problems and a host of other learning disabilities. I worked with adopted children, both local and international. Many of them suffered from trauma. I also worked with adults who presented a variety of problems. Some of these were of a more physical nature, post-stroke, migraines, seizures and pain. Some presented with more mental health issues, anxiety, depression, OCD, dissociation and PTSD.

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