BCIA Certification Training

Mission: Foster self-knowledge and improve lives through innovation, continuous improvement of products, services, employee productivity and relentless efforts to deliver highest values at lowest prices.

Introduction

We offer General Biofeedback and EEG Neurofeedback BCIA Certification programs of exceptional quality and low cost.

These are outstanding opportunities for participants to learn traditional, mainstream, clinical biofeedback applications, as well as the fast growing specialty of EEG Neurofeedback. HTS Instructors are among the most experienced and successful instructor/practitioners in biofeedback. Likewise, many of the professionals we have trained over the past thirty-four years are today among the most successful biofeedback practitioners in the world. Our hands-on seminars include lectures, demonstrations, video, dialogues and supervised training on leading instrument systems. Our unique strategies provide a systematic, guided approach to clinical and economic success in biofeedback including:

  1. All of the didactic BCIA hours (48 hours General Biofeedback & 36 hours EEG Neurofeedback)
  2. Learning biofeedback applications that can be applied immediately
  3. Integration of biofeedback into your individual therapy or educational style
  4. Identification of those biofeedback specialties that are most suited to you or your organization
  5. How to continue to improve your practical and scientific biofeedback knowledge in the most cost effective ways
  6. Development of solid, quickly applicable biofeedback business models

Previous experience with biofeedback or EEG instrumentation or computers is not required in order to learn how to conduct traditional, general biofeedback or EEG sessions. Training rebates are available on most equipment purchases.

Certification Requirements

BCIA recommends, but does not require, that candidates complete the remaining requirements in the order: 1) anatomy/physiology course, 2) didatctic biofeedback/neurofeedback education, 3) mentored clinical biofeedback/neurofeeback training, and 4) written exam.

Blueprint for General Biofeedback

Hours

Orientation to Biofeedback2

Stress, Coping & Illness3

Psychophysiological Recording8

Research Methodology2

Surface EMG (SEMG) Applications6

Autonomic nervous System (ANS) Applications8

Respiratory Applications3

Intervention Strategies8

Professional Conduct2

Practical Biofeedback Training – 20 contact hours with a BCIA approved mentor to review:

  1. 10 sessions of personal biofeedback, demonstrating self-regulation
  2. 50 sessions of patient/client treatment as follows: 10 sessions each of Thermal, EMG, and HRV. The remaining 20 sessions are to include any combination of EMG, Thermal, GSR, EEG, HRV, and respiration training.
  3. 10 case conference presentations
    *Sessions are a minimum of 20 minutes

Essential Skills List – must be submitted for each candidate.

BCIA Biofeedback requirements brochure

Blueprint for EEG Biofeedback

Hours

Orientation to Neurofeedback4

Basic Neurophysiology & Neuroanatomy4

Instrumentation & Electronics4

Research Evidence Base for Neurofeedback2

Psychopharmacological Considerations 2

Patient Client Assessment 4

Developing Treatment Protocols 6

Treatment Implementation 6

Current Trends in Neurofeedback 2

Ethical & Professional Conduct 2

Practical Neurofeedback Training – 25 contact hours with a BCIA approved mentor to review:

  1. 10 sessions of personal neurofeedback, demonstrating self-regulation
  2. 100 sessions of patient/client treatment
  3. 10 case conference presentations
    *Sessions are a minimum of 20 minutes

Two contact hours must be face to face.
Essential Skills List – must be submitted for each candidate.

BCIA Neurofeedback requirements brochure