NFB Team

Aloha from James and Julieah,

We moved to Kauai January 2003, from the Mid-West, and have set up our
business in the countryside of Omao.

James and Julieah

Julieah at the Farmers Market

James on the Beach

Julieah on her drum

We have been using Neurofeedback/EEG Biofeedback, clinically, since 1994, and have worked with a wide range of health and growth issues.

We first began in a clinic setting working with individuals, with chronic and often time’s critical illnesses, on their stress related issues. Over the past ten years we have broadened our work to include a wide range of clinical health issues as well as personal growth areas such as Peak Performance Training and Meditation.

Our training has spanned three decades. While living in Berkley, during the early 70's, with Harish Johari, a Tantric Yogi from India, we would sometimes hook up to biofeedback equipment. It was interesting witnessing the difference between we "Westerners", as we self consciously tried to create alpha waves, in comparison to Harish, and even his very young children. Even his three year old daughter, sitting in her "Full Lotus" position, could successfully change brainwave states within a few minutes. Harish himself could be in state by the time the biofeedback equipment was turned on.

In the mid-70's, while attending school at Sonoma State University, in Northern California, I studied biofeedback under Eleanor Criswell, who is highly regarded in the field today. Our training consisted of GSR (skin moisture) and temperature training only, but had a very profound effect on me.

In 1994, a Psychologist friend, Dr. James Ulness, allowed me to use a Brain Tracer EEG Biofeedback system in our counseling center. The Brain Trainer is a two channel EEG trainer, and the predecessor to the ProComp we now use. A couple years latter, while living in Seaside, Oregon, I became aware of the work and training being done at EEG Spectrum in California. The training at EEG Spectrum, under Susan and Sigfried Othmer, Barry Sterman and William Scott provides the protocol strength we use in our practice. We have also studied under Valdean Brown, Joel Lubar, and Lester Lefeme.

We have degrees in Psychology, with graduate work in Neurology and Neuropathology, as well as a strong Holistic, Complementary Health background. Our first Holistic Clinic, Health Options, was started in 1983 in Fargo, North Dakota. At that time we were doing Wellness Counseling and Massage Therapy. When we began our clinic, there were only two Massage Therapists in the surrounding region. There are now over 50 advertising there locally and 2 massage schools. WE ARE USED TO PIONEERING! We have also run the largest Natural Health consumer Exposition in the US, Health Options Expo. We produced our "show" in Miami, Minneapolis, and Denver over a period of Eight years. It was following this experience that we began our Neurofeedback work.

While EEG Biofeedback or Neurofeedback is still gaining credibility in the eyes of the medical community, there are many aspects of its use, which have been granted mainstream acceptance. These areas fall mainly in the realm of Biofeedback. Insurance companies, including Blue Cross, reimburse for conditions such as headaches, neuromuscular pain, intestinal disorders, TMJ and incontinence. While it is more difficult, they will sometimes reimburse for central nervous system disorders, including ADD/ADHD. Julieah and I work with these conditions, employing both traditional Biofeedback modalities, as well as EEG Biofeedback. Our equipment is state-of-the-art, and is capable of combining a variety of instruments simultaneously to maximize time and results, including EMG, Temperature, Respiration, Heart Rate/Pulse, and EEG.

While EEG Biofeedback is still relatively unknown, it is rapidly gathering recognition and support. Early successes with seizure disorders, and a unique spin-off leading to its effective ability to assist with attention disorders has fostered keen interest in clinical, as well as educational situations, including a large number of schools that use EEG Biofeedback to help kids with ADD/ADHD.

In our training, Julieah and I have worked with numerous children, as well as adults, with ADD/ADHD. Our experience has been, like many in our field, extremely successful and rewarding. In contrast, I was a school counselor at a fourth to eighth grade Native American therapeutic boarding school, in which the percentage of attention difficulties was very high, and experienced mainly exasperation with standard approaches.

While much of Julieah and my work is clinical, we also use our experience and equipment to help people move ahead in their striving for personal achievement. Biofeedback initially gained recognition for its ability to help people achieve greater control over their Alpha brain wave frequencies. This, in turn, allowed them to achieve control over previously thought of uncontrollable physical states such blood pressure, and oxygen flow. Much of this earlier Alpha Training was initiated by an interest in the mind/body control of eastern mediators, and Yogis.

Having studied meditation for a number of years, we are very comfortable, and flexible in these types of trainings. While we appreciate the clinical usefulness of Neurofeedback, our own experience in the ability to use these tools for deepening and expanding conscious awareness, and creativity, endures us to this aspect of our work. One of the reasons we feel we have been led to Kauai, is because of its uniquely creative and introspective population. With our other hats on, Julieah and I are musician. We have a small personal recording studio, have a couple CD’s, and work energetically with our music and sound to both grow and heal. We both continue to train to assist ourselves in achieving the states of attention which allow us to most appreciatively experience our own creativeness, as well as furthering our quest for greater overall states of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

The Neurofeedback Team