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Unfortunately, as with any successful treatment, the practice attracts the quick-fix, overnight ‘professionals’, who can be a pose a danger to their clients and bring an effective therapy into disrepute due to:
• Not being qualified and don’t have the required knowledge.
• They train the brain incorrectly and the client develops side effects.
• Use of devices that aren’t medically approved and haven’t been proven beneficial due to a lack of research.

Not only is this very sad and possibly harmful, it is also unethical when practitioners don’t deliver on promises made. Therefore, when choosing a neurofeedback practitioner, you need to make sure they are skilled, have the right medical background and use a device that will ensure you get the desired results.

Why you need professional, qualified and well-trained practitioners

Unfortunately, there are a number of 'lay practitioners' who buy neurofeedback devices that are not effective and have not been shown to be beneficial. Such devices can be readily bought on the internet or through franchises that do not ask for medical or psychological degrees or affiliations with the medical board of the country in question. This often results in people offering neurofeedback training that have no medical and/or psychological qualifications, as well as no idea how to read assessment results and train the brain effectively.

It has been proven in a number of different research studies that there are many devices out there that do not change the brain at all and clients waste their money. With those devices, you might as well just sit in front of a computer game and think it will change your brain. In the right hands neurofeedback can be a truly powerful and effective tool, whilst in the wrong hands, it can be harmful. Over stimulation of certain parts and functions of the brain can lead to anxiety, depression, sleeplessness and a whole host of other negative side effects. In short, know who you are going to for treatment.

Being treated by under-qualified, ill-equipped practitioners is like going to your hairdresser to have laser eye surgery!

According to Cory Hammond, a noted practitioner and clinical researcher based in the United States, “We are seeing an increasing number of lay persons (as well as untrained ‘professionals’) inappropriately obtaining neurofeedback equipment in violation of FDA (Food and Drug Administration) regulations. Some of these individuals are then presuming that they are qualified to put electrodes on someone’s head and to seek to alter the brain functioning of persons with serious medical and psychological conditions.”