Brain Health Snapshot
A short educational questionnaire screening your three core networks — Default Mode, Salience and Central Executive — with a personalised starting protocol.
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- ~10 minutes
- Personalised protocol emailed
Composite 1 · Mood
Anxiety, alongside CBT.
A composite illustration of how we structure the brain-side work for adult anxiety patients already engaged in cognitive-behavioural therapy. HRV biofeedback first, swLORETA-guided neurofeedback layered in, the CBT continues unchanged.
AHPRA-registered clinician-led
Clinical-grade qEEG hardware
Co-care with your GP & psychologist
Geelong · Camperdown · Australia-wide
Composite case study. Anonymised, illustrative, built from many similar presentations. Not a single patient. No clinical outcome claims. Individual responses vary.
The presentation
Where the patient typically arrives.
A working professional in their thirties or forties has been seeing a clinical psychologist for 8–18 months for generalised anxiety, sometimes with an OCD or social-anxiety overlay. The therapy has been good. They’ve done the cognitive work, they understand their patterns, they have a CBT toolkit. But progress has plateaued. The body keeps reacting before the mind catches up. The autonomic system isn’t getting the memo.
Sleep is fragmented. They wake at 3am with the mind already racing. Daytime function is acceptable but expensive — they push through, then crash on weekends. Their psychologist has suggested looking at the brain-side of the work, and the patient arrives curious but cautious.
What the qEEG often shows
A characteristic over-arousal pattern.
In presentations like this, the qEEG often shows an over-aroused cortical signature — elevated high-frequency beta across frontal and central sites, sometimes with reduced alpha at rest, and an autonomic profile that confirms the picture (low heart-rate variability, sympathetic-dominant breathing pattern, elevated electrodermal activity even at “rest”). The 14-network screen typically flags Limbic, Salience, and sometimes Default Mode networks as out-of-balance.
This isn’t a diagnosis — it’s a measurement-led picture. It tells us where the work is most likely to help.
How the plan is structured
Three weights, in this order.
- HRV biofeedback as the foundation. Start here. Resonant-frequency breath-pattern training, both in-session and as daily home practice. Strong evidence base, well-tolerated, and gives the autonomic system a predictable signal to recalibrate to. Most patients see HRV shifts within the first 6–10 sessions.
- swLORETA-guided neurofeedback toward the limbic and salience picture. Once the autonomic ground is settling, we layer in the cortical work — 30-minute sessions targeting the specific regions identified on the qEEG. The protocol gets refined through the programme as the picture changes.
- The CBT continues unchanged. We don’t replace the psychological work — we run alongside it. With the patient’s consent, we send a short summary to their psychologist after the qEEG and at programme conclusion, so the picture stays integrated.
How the plan adapts
The Daily Diary does the watching between sessions.
The Tier 2 portal runs alongside the in-clinic work from day one. The patient logs mood, energy, sleep, symptoms, and protocol adherence each day in under a minute. Three things happen with that data:
- The patient gets daily insight cards drawn from their own logged patterns — not pre-written content. If sleep deteriorates while symptoms rise, the card responds to that.
- The clinic sees flags. If protocol adherence drops, or symptoms escalate over several days, the red-flag system alerts the team.
- At Week 12 we re-image. The before / after qEEG comparison goes alongside the diary data — a measured picture rather than a remembered one.
The Week 12 review is honest. If the picture has moved, we say so. If it hasn’t, we say that too — and we revisit the formulation together.
Who this composite fits
Who tends to find the brain-side work useful here.
- People already engaged in psychological therapy who want to add an autonomic-regulation and brain-side layer.
- Patients whose anxiety has a strong somatic / autonomic component — chest tightness, racing heart, sleep arousal — even when cognitive work has helped.
- Those who prefer a measurement-led adjunct over adding more medication, where their treating doctor is comfortable with that approach.
For more on what we work with: Anxiety on the Who-we-help cluster. For the modality detail: HRV biofeedback · Neurofeedback.
Scope & safety
We work alongside — not in place of — primary medical and psychological care. We do not diagnose neurological or psychiatric conditions from EEG, and we do not prescribe or alter medication. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call 000 or Lifeline 13 11 14.