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5-day intensive infra-low frequency neurofeedback training

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ILF Neurofeedback Certification

5-Day Intensive: Infralow Frequency Neurofeedback 

Deeply anchored in neuroscience — optimized for clinicians dedicated to helping clients reconnect with their reflective, agentive, and embodied selves

This hands-on professional training integrates advanced neurofeedback science with trauma-informed clinical practice. Over five immersive days, you’ll learn how infra-low-frequency (ILF) neurofeedback reshapes brain networks, such as the Default Mode Network (DMN)— a foundational network for self-referential processing, self-continuity, and authentic identity.

This course equips you with the foundational skills to confidently implement ILF neurofeedback in your practice and help clients move beyond maladaptive survival strategies into true self-regulation, neural coherence, and embodied agency.


Who This Training Is For

Clinicians, *coaches, mental health professionals, and trauma practitioners with a graduate-level degree in a regulated mental-health field who want to:

✨ Add cutting-edge neurofeedback to their trauma-informed toolkit
✨ Understand how brain networks like the DMN relate to identity and self-experience
✨ Help clients stuck in chronic dysregulation cultivate stability and authenticity

This course meets professional training standards for ILF neurofeedback and is immediately clinically applicable.

*Any unlicensed practitioners must work under the license of a registered mental health provider, and must email hello@healpsychotherapy.ca with the license number.


Course Format & Schedule

Dates:  January 17 – 21

Duration: 5 Days • 40 Contact Hours

Daily Hours:

  • Jan 17: 9:00am – 5:00pm

  • Jan 18: 9:00am – 5:00pm

  • Jan 19: 9:00am – 5:00pm

  • Jan 20: 9:00am – 5:00pm

  • Jan 21: 9:00am – 5:00pm

Location: 65 Wellesley St E, Suite 402, Toronto, ON M4Y 2E3

Live, experiential, and structured to help you walk out able to implement ILF neurofeedback immediately.


Day-by-Day Learning Experience

🗓 Day 1 – Foundations of Neurofeedback & the Self

Theme: Why and how neurofeedback changes the self in PTSD

  • History and neuroscience of ILF neurofeedback

  • Brain networks and self-referential processing: understanding the Default Mode Network

  • How infra-low frequencies support core self-organization

  • Neuroplasticity and deep regulatory shift mechanisms
    Outcome: A robust understanding of how neurofeedback interfaces with core identity networks.


🗓 Day 2 – Technical Mastery & Practical Protocols

Theme: Precision in practice

  • EEG basics and hardware/software operation

  • Electrode placement using the 10–20 system

  • Artifact recognition and protocol fidelity

  • Tailoring ILF training to clinical presentations
    Outcome: You’ll be technically confident and protocol-ready.


🗓 Day 3 – Symptom Profiles & Neural Patterns

Theme: Mapping dysregulation to experience

  • Translating clinical symptoms into brain dysregulation patterns

  • How DMN disruptions show up in trauma, anxiety, depression, identity fragmentation

  • Targeting ILF frequencies for baseline re-anchoring
    Outcome: You’ll design symptom-specific neurofeedback plans from the first session.


🗓 Day 4 – Experiential Training & Self-Regulation

Theme: Clinician as co-learner

  • Participate in ILF sessions yourself

  • Turn-taking practice as clinician + trainee

  • Feedback loops, state shifts, and embodied experience

  • Exploring changes in self-perception post-training
    Outcome: Deep internalization of how ILF promotes self-regulation and neural coherence.


🗓 Day 5 – Integration Into Trauma-Informed Practice

Theme: From data to transformation

  • Integrating neurofeedback with psychotherapy frameworks (EMDR, somatics, attachment-based work)

  • Addressing medication implications & ethical considerations

  • Outcome tracking, documentation, and clinical communication

  • Case conceptualization and presentation
    Outcome: You leave ready to embed ILF neurofeedback into your clinical workflow.


🧩 What You’ll Learn

By the end of the week, you’ll be able to:

✔ Confidently operate ILF neurofeedback hardware, software, and how to choose a protocol
✔ Identify and train dysregulated neural rhythms associated with arousal, self-reference, and regulation
✔ Understand how infralow training influences the Default Mode Network and self-modeling
✔ Create and adapt individualized protocols based on symptom profiles
✔ Integrate neurofeedback with psychotherapy to enhance therapeutic depth


🧠 Why ILF Matters for Sense of Self

Infra-low frequency neurofeedback trains the brain’s ultra-slow regulatory rhythms (often <0.1 Hz), which correlate with very basic levels of neural self-organization. These rhythms are deeply connected with the Default Mode Network (DMN) — a brain network involved in self-referential thinking, autobiographical memory, and internal identity continuity. By stabilizing ILF activity, we support:

🌟 Improved self-regulation
🌟 Reduced chronic hyper-/hypo-arousal
🌟 Greater access to authentic identity
🌟 Enhanced responsiveness to psychotherapeutic work

This is brain training — not just symptom management — and it helps clients reconnect with who they really are


🧑‍🏫 Included in Your Training

✅ Hands-on practice with ILF equipment
✅ Electrode kits, amplifier access, and software
✅ Comprehensive course materials and worksheets
✅ Group mentoring and case review sessions
✅ Certificate of completion


📌 Investment & Commitment

Professional training requires full attendance across all five days. Supervision and mentorship options are available post-course for continued skill building.

$4,380 + HST


🚀 Ready to Transform Your Practice?

This course is more than a technical training — it’s a professional evolution. You’ll leave with the confidence, neural insight, and therapeutic integration skills to support clients in establishing stable self-regulation, neural coherence, and authentic identity.

Register Now to secure your spot.

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