Psychotherapy is mainly a talk-based therapy and is intended to help people improve and maintain their mental health and well-being. A therapist will work with individuals, couples and families in individual and group settings. Psychotherapy occurs when a Registered Psychotherapist (RP) and client enter into a psychotherapeutic relationship where both work together to bring about positive change in the client’s thinking, feeling, behaviour and social functioning. Individuals usually seek psychotherapy when they have thoughts, feelings, moods, and behaviours that are adversely affecting their day-to-day lives, relationships and the ability to enjoy life.

Neurofeedback is a ground-up approach
that involves teaching the brain a new set of skills at a foundational level so that it has
those skills moving forward. Like beginning with a personal trainer at the gym,
Neurofeedback sessions are more frequent in the beginning while the brain is gradually
learning to break out of unhealthy habit and then decrease over time as the brain has
acquired the skills to begin exercising and maintaining healthy changes on its own.
Neurofeedback is frequently done in conjunction with psychotherapy or counselling as
emotional and psychological processing occurs when the brain learns to break out of
stuck patterns and learn new more adaptive ones. Talking is not required however as the
brain is training itself through the music being listened to. This is why Neurofeedback is
considered a new-age mental health approach. All it requires is for the individual to show
up and be open to their brain changing.