biofeedback in silicon valley, ca.

Your nervous system is the foundation. Biofeedback is how we stabilize it.

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Biofeedback measures what your body is doing in real time — heart rate variability, muscle tension, skin conductance, peripheral temperature, and respiration — and displays it back to you as data you can actually see. Not a vague sense of how you're feeling, but a precise, moment-to-moment picture of your physiological state.

That visibility changes things. When you can see your nervous system's activity, you can begin to influence it — not by thinking your way through it, but through direct physiological experience.

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my approach:

Biofeedback, in my practice, is about building capacity — not simply inducing calm.

Many of us have learned to manage by overfocusing on, or disconnecting from, the signals our bodies send. Biofeedback offers a third option: noticing without reacting. Over time, that noticing becomes more accurate, appraisals of internal experience begin to shift, and the stability built in session starts to generalize into daily life.

I offer biofeedback as a standalone service and as an integral part of the broader work we do together. When combined with neurofeedback or psychotherapy, the effects are often synergistic — each modality supporting and deepening the other.

Modalities I use:

  • → Heart rate variability (HRV)

    → Respiration rate and mechanics

    → Surface electromyography (sEMG) — muscle tension

    → Skin conductance (electrodermal activity)

    → Peripheral temperature

what biofeedback can help with:

Biofeedback is particularly well-suited for presentations where the body is carrying what words alone haven't been able to resolve.

→ Anxiety — generalized, panic, social

→ Trauma & PTSD, including complex PTSD

→ Chronic stress

→ Sleep difficulties

→ Chronic pain, tension headaches, migraines

→ Irritable bowel syndrome and other stress-related physical symptoms

→ Somatic symptom disorders

→ Autonomic dysregulation

→ Performance and burnout

FAQs

COMMON QUESTIONS

  • Not entirely. While it doesn't require cognitive effort or talking through difficult material, it does ask for your attention — a quality of engaged, relaxed noticing. The data responds to your state, and learning to read that relationship is itself part of the work.

  • It depends on what you're working on and how biofeedback fits into your broader treatment. For some, particularly those with complex or chronic presentations, it becomes a longer-term part of our work together.

  • Yes. There is substantial research supporting biofeedback — particularly HRV biofeedback — for anxiety, stress-related conditions, and a range of physiological presentations.

  • Not necessarily. Some clients come specifically for biofeedback on the recommendation of their physician or therapist, and we work together as part of a broader treatment collaboration — without biofeedback being embedded in ongoing psychotherapy with me.

  • As part of the intake process, I conduct a psychophysiological stress profile — a structured assessment that measures how your autonomic nervous system responds to and recovers from stress. The findings give us both a clearer, more objective picture of what's happening beneath the surface. Rather than a formal written report, we use the results as a foundation for conversation — exploring what the data means in the context of your life and using it to inform the direction of our work together.