WHI’s qEEG Brain Scan Announcement and Updates
Ever wondered what is going on inside your brain? Ever wondered what your brain looks like on a qEEG Brain Map? The strength of QEEG lies precisely in its ability to assess functional information processing disorders, which is why were are opening our process to learning, and WHI School, and Dissociative learning.
As a part of our growing services, we are now offering parents, educators, and communities the opportunity to have the experience of seeing what is going on inside their brains so they can know if they are all there or not, have obtained neuroregulation, and are psychologically self-actualized (or not). Our neuroregulation process involves getting a quantitative (q)EEG to see how present, how grounded, how dissociated on is living, and how well their brain is doing (or not). Our Meeting Area Screening and Assessment (MASA) process helps orient participants to our process.
What if you had a qEEG report like this for yourself, your child, or your spouse?
Imagine holding a detailed map of your brain’s electrical activity—a map showing not just where you are but where your brain is struggling, thriving, and communicating. That is what a Quantitative Electroencephalogram (qEEG) report provides.
The sample analysis we’ve explored reveals a pattern of excessive slow-wave activity (Delta and Theta) and a globally slowed Alpha Peak Frequency (APF) in a 10-year-old male. It also points to hypercoherence—abnormally over-synchronized communication—across brain regions. This isn’t a medical diagnosis, but it’s objective data showing significant deviations from the norm that correlate with cognitive, emotional, and behavioral challenges often tied to trauma and dysregulation.
If this report were yours, or belonged to a loved one, what would you do?
What Would You Do With a Report Like This?
Most people who discover their brain is working this hard to function feel relief and validation. The report translates subjective struggles into objective patterns of brain activity.
- Validate the Struggle: That feeling of always being overwhelmed, struggling with focus, or being emotionally reactive now has a correlate: excessive slow-wave power and abnormal connectivity in the brain’s electrical activity.
- Target the Root Cause: The qEEG moves past symptoms (like anxiety or poor focus) to help pinpoint the functional dysregulation—the specific frequencies and regions—that need support. For the 10-year-old, the focus would be on training the frontal-temporal areas to reduce excessive slow waves and encouraging a healthier APF.
- Personalize the Healing Path: Since every brain is unique, your healing journey should be too. The report guides the selection of the most effective non-invasive methods, turning the guesswork into a data-informed process.
What Would a Wounded Healers Institute (WHI) Educational Service Provider Provide?
At the Wounded Healers Institute, the qEEG report becomes the blueprint for a customized healing and educational care plan that goes beyond traditional talk therapy.
Neurofeedback Training
This is where the brain learns to self-regulate. Based on the report, a neurofeedback protocol would target the precise frequency imbalances identified, such as the excess Delta/Theta activity and widespread hypercoherence.
- Retrain Neural Networks: By providing real-time audio and visual feedback on the client’s own brain activity, the brain is gently nudged toward healthier patterns, helping to reduce the “stuck” pattern of excessive slow waves and over-synchronization.
- Enhance Regulation and Resilience: Consistent neurofeedback can improve emotional regulation, reduce anxiety, and foster brain and nervous system balance, helping clients move beyond chronic fight-or-flight (a hallmark of trauma and dissociation).
Educational Care
Healing from attachment, developmental, emotional, existential, moral, or spiritual trauma, normative dissociation, and universal addictions requires building new skills.
- Healing-Centered Education: The provider offers a path to healing that prioritizes restoration, resilience, and personal growth, treating your struggles not as flaws but as sources of wisdom (the “Wounded Healer” concept).
- Integrative Modalities: The report informs the selection of complementary somatic (body-based) approaches like Brainspotting, BEMER, Reiki, and Cranio-Sacral therapy, supporting the notion that trauma is stored in both the brain and the body.
Dissociative Learning
For those pursuing psychedelic care, the qEEG data can provide invaluable context.
- Unconscious Informed Consent: Understanding the brain’s baseline activity can inform the therapeutic process and aid the integration of the profound insights often gained from experiences (can include psychedelic plants), tying them back to concrete changes in brain function and promoting post-traumatic growth.
How Could a qEEG Report Like This Help Schools, Healthcare Providers, and Society?
A qEEG report is a tool for transparency, personalization, and systemic change.
- For Schools & Educators:
- Informed Accommodations: A report confirming a student’s brain struggles with processing or sustaining focus (often linked to the identified Delta/Theta excess and slowed APF) gives educators a clear, objective rationale for accommodations beyond a simple behavioral label. This shifts the perspective from “won’t try” to “can’t integrate.”
- Focus on Wellness: By identifying functional patterns linked to emotional and developmental issues, schools can promote a healing-centered pedagogy, leading to environments where students can truly thrive, flourish, and heal.
- For Healthcare Providers:
- Diagnostic Clarity: The objective data helps clinicians differentiate between overlapping conditions (e.g., ADHD versus a trauma-based dysregulation that mimics ADHD) and provides objective metrics for tracking treatment progress.
- Targeted Interventions: It enhances the precision of treatments like Neurofeedback or other neuromodulatory techniques, ensuring interventions are based on a client’s unique brain activity patterns, maximizing the chance of a successful outcome.
- For Society:
- Universalizing Healing: Widespread use of qEEG for non-diagnosable psychological needs (like normative dissociation and universal addictions) supports a shift to a “gym model” of mental health—one focused on prevention, brain training, and building resilience for everyone, acknowledging that everyone alive has suffered.
- Objective Evidence: It moves mental health toward an evidence-based, measurable practice, offering quantifiable data to demonstrate the efficacy of healing interventions and promoting greater investment in brain wellness.
The qEEG report is more than a map; it’s the starting point for an intentional and tailored journey toward wholeness.
Combined with our MASA, people who get an qEEG become more aware of themselves, become more knowledgeable in psychology, and more informed as to what is going on with them. People tend to have improved relationship awareness, better able to acknowledge their reenactments, and can repair their attachments traumas with the ones they love. As a part of our psychedelic care (O’Brien, 2023c; O’Brien, 2024a; O’Brien, 2025), we suggest that anyone using psychedelics to support their healing maintenance have a brain scan, learn from our models of healing and neuroregulation, and get support from an experienced sitter, guide, and healer who has been there and come back.
This service is a part of our training programming, acts of healing, and research. Relational and it is an optional portion of our services and care, but what we know is that we are not just talking to you today, but that we are talking to every you you have ever been… and ever will be. Points is, we do not need to know if you are neuro-regulated or not, but for those who don’t know, this service is priceless.
The process looks like this: qEEG scan takes about 30 min but answering questions about the equipment and process (which is why we have our Orientation Process). There has to be two sessions to read results.
There are two reports available
Scan Results:
1) is the qEEG analysis that Dr. Adam will cover at his hourly rate.
AND/OR
2) There is qualitative qEEG report from the company that you can purchase for 150$. Dr. Adam will review the results with you (roughly 30 min-1 hour, depending on your questions, hourly rates apply)
If you are curious to learn more about the scanning process and what we do with the results, join our WHI programming and services.
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References
O’Brien, A. (2023a). Addiction as Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Phenomenological Investigation of the Addictive State. International University of Graduate Studies. (Dissertation). Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/courses/addiction-as-dissociation-model-course/
O’Brien, A. (2023b). Memory Reconsolidation in Psychedelics Therapy. In Path of the Wounded Healer: A Dissociative-Focused Phase Model for Normative and Pathological States of Consciousness: Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/courses/addiction-as-dissociation-model-course/
O’Brien, A. (2023c). Path of the Wounded Healer: A Dissociative-Focused Phase Model for Normative and Pathological States of Consciousness: Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2024a). Healer and Healing: The re-education of the healer and healing professions as an advocation. Re-educational and Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2024e). Path of the Wounded Healers for Thrivers: Perfectionism, Altruism, and Ambition Addictions; Re-education and training manual for Abusers, Activists, Batterers, Bullies, Enablers, Killers, Narcissists, Offenders, Parents, Perpetrators, and Warriors. Re-Education and Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2025). American Made Addiction Recovery: a healer’s journey through professional recovery. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2025a). American Made Addiction Recovery: a healer’s journey through professional recovery. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2025b). Applied Recovery: Post-War on Drugs, Post-COVID, and What Recovery Culture and Citizens Require Moving Forward. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2025c). Recovering Recovery: How Psychedelic Science Is Ending the War on Drugs. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
*This is for informational and educational purposes only. For medical advice or diagnosis, consult a professional.
