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Healing through the head and the heart.
🌱 Specializing in anxiety, trauma, relationships, ADHD & more
🧠 Offering personalized psychotherapy & neurofeedback
💛 Compassionate, heart-driven care.

01/21/2026

Client stories are my favourite stories. 🧠💛

This is one of my favourite kinds of feedback.

Not because it’s flashy, but because it speaks to actual regulation.

When the nervous system isn’t stuck in overdrive, sleep becomes more restorative, mornings feel less heavy, and energy starts to return naturally.

Sometimes the biggest shifts show up in the most ordinary moments. ✨

Curious if neurofeedback could support your energy?
 Let’s chat. 💬

01/16/2026

This is how a brain map is made. 🧠

A QEEG uses a 10–20 electrode cap, named for the standardized way sensors are placed across the scalp to capture activity from different regions of the brain.

The cap doesn’t send anything into the brain, it simply records what’s already happening.

The cap is then connected to an amplifier, which strengthens the brain’s natural electrical signals so we can see them on a screen. 📈

Those signals are sent into specialized software that processes the data and helps us look at overall patterns of brain functioning.

From there, we can look at patterns related to things like attention, anxiety, mood, and regulation.

Curious what information a brain map could offer you?

Let’s connect. 💌

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BrainMapping

01/13/2026

What can a brain map show us about OCD? 🧠

For many people, OCD is characterized by a nervous system that learns to stay alert, careful, and in control to reduce discomfort or threat. 🚨
 Over time, those same protective strategies can turn into rigidity, looping thoughts, and compulsive urges.

We recently mapped the brain of an adult who has lived with OCD for decades.

Here’s what their brain map showed:

🔹 Increased delta and theta, reflecting difficulty shifting out of stuck mental states.

🔹 Elevated alpha activity, suggesting over-inhibition and mental “locking in”.

🔹 High beta activity, indicating a nervous system in constant vigilance.

🔹 Hi-beta hyper-coherence, showing rigid over-connection in anxiety networks.

🔹 Incompatible coherence and phase lag, meaning the brain’s logic, emotion, and action centres aren’t always communicating smoothly.

QEEGs help explain why OCD can feel so relentless.

And neurofeedback can help slow the cycle.

Curious what your brain might reveal? Let’s connect. 💌

01/05/2026

Started in undergrad, now we’re here.

Swipe to go back to 2014 ➡️

A decade of learning, unlearning, and building (together).

Deeply grateful for the kind of friendship that grows with you, personally and professionally. ❣️

01/02/2026

New Year’s resolutions are incredibly common.. and often not very helpful.

Not because people don’t care or aren’t trying, but because resolutions tend to rely on pressure and rigid expectations. ❌

It’s common to start the year with big intentions like “I’ll work out consistently” or “I need to stop scrolling so much.”

And then, when life gets busy or motivation dips, we turn on ourselves. 😖

From a therapeutic and neuroscience perspective, this makes sense!
 ➡️ Pressure activates the nervous system
➡️ Stress pulls the brain back toward familiar patterns
➡️ Self-criticism shuts down learning.

So when I talk about re-branding resolutions, I mean shifting them from rigid rules we’re supposed to “stick to,” into practices or experiments our brain can actually learn from.

Instead of:
 “I have to work out 5 days a week”

Try:
 “What happens if I move my body for 5 minutes?”

Instead of:
 “I need to stop scrolling”

Try:
 “What do I notice if I put my phone down 10 minutes earlier?”

No pass/fail.

Just information. ✨
 Lasting change happens when we lower the pressure, not the intention.

Cheers to 2026!

🤍🧠

12/30/2025

Your brain is always learning from experience..
. especially the small, repeated ones.

Neurofeedback works on this exact principle by giving your brain real-time information about its own activity.

Neurofeedback creates brief moments of adjustment and self-correction, often without you needing to “do” anything at all.

Over time, those moments add up and new neural pathways strengthen.
 By virtue of this, old patterns don’t have to work so hard to keep you safe.

This is often why something feels different before you can put it into words.

It’s not about forcing calm or fixing something that’s broken.
 It’s about giving your nervous system consistent practice in regulation.

Because real change doesn’t happen all at once.
 It happens gently, through repetition.
 And practice makes pathways. 🧠

12/28/2025

The one where teamwork felt a little like family.

*insert Friends theme song* 🎶

Different strengths, shared values, one very cozy couch.

Grateful is an understatement. 🧠❤️

12/25/2025

However this season meets you,

wishing you moments of rest, warmth, and ease.

From our little family to yours 💚❤️

12/19/2025

Been a while since we took a breath together.

Let’s get back to it!
 The physiological sigh.

A natural way your body releases stress.

Here’s how to do it:
 🫁 Inhale through your nose 🫁 Take a second, shorter inhale on top 🫁 Exhale slowly through your mouth

Repeat as needed.

Your nervous system will thank you.

12/16/2025

If you understand your patterns but still feel stuck, you’re not doing therapy “wrong.” 🔄

You can be self-aware, motivated, and doing “all the right things” but still feel like your body didn’t get the memo.

Sometimes insight isn’t the missing piece. 🤔
�Sometimes the nervous system needs more capacity first.

Neurofeedback doesn’t replace therapy or bypass the work.
�Neurofeedback can support regulation at a foundational level, making therapy feel safer, steadier, and more effective over time. 😌

Not instead of therapy.
�In support of it. ⚖️

12/12/2025

As we wrap up the final month of 2025, here are a few things we’re officially leaving behind 👋🏻 (for the sake of our brains, our bodies, and our nervous systems):

We’re leaving behind white-knuckling our way through stress. Pushing through isn’t resilience, it’s a sign your system has been in survival mode for too long.

We’re leaving behind running on no sleep and only coffee. The brain can’t regulate when it’s exhausted. Sleep isn’t optional; it’s neurobiology.

We’re leaving behind pretending burnout is a personality trait. Burnout isn’t who you are; it’s what happens when your physiology has been overextended without repair.

We’re leaving behind trying to mindset our way out of dysregulation. Thoughts matter, but they can’t override a nervous system that’s overwhelmed. Regulation starts in the body and the brain’s networks.

And we’re definitely leaving behind calling it overreacting when it’s actually a survival pattern. Your system isn’t dramatic, it’s protective. More compassion, less self-blame.

Here’s to walking into 2026 with more awareness, more gentleness, and tools that genuinely support the brain.

✨ A clearer, calmer year starts with a supported nervous system. ✨

Interested how we can help? Let’s chat. 💌

09/24/2025

✌️💜🌊
 Because your brain deserves good vibes too.

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Kanata, ON

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http://www.brittanyduncantherapy.com/

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