Fred Shaffer, PhD, BCIAC, and Judy Crawford

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Biofeedback Certification Institute of America Educators Who Have Made a Difference (Part 2) Fred Shaffer, PhD, BCIAC,1 and Judy Crawford2

‘Truman State University, Kirksville, MO; 2BCIA Director of Certification, Wheat Ridge, CO

Keywords: biofeedback, certification, education, neurofeedback

The Biofeedback Certification Institute of America values its partnership with the dedicated educators who teach biofeedback and neurofeedback to our certificants. This article is the second in a series that introduces the dedicated educators who have helped us succeed in our mission to protect the welfare of biofeedback consumers, to provide credibility to biofeedback practitioners, and to advance the field of biofeedback. This article also reports on the international growth of biofeedback and neurofeedback training programs.

This article is the second in a series that celebrates the contributions of our finest teachers. An anonymous author wrote, “A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.” The educators featured in this series have challenged the minds of thousands of students. They have supported Biofeedback Certification Institute of America (BCIA) certification by teaching our blueprints, modeling our ethical standards, and mentoring new professionals. This article highlights the contributions of Celeste DeBease, Harry Campbell, Les Fehmi, Tony Hughes, Erik Peper, and Leslie Sherlin. Future issues will honor the achievements of educators in biofeedback, neurofeedback, and pelvic muscle dysfunction biofeedback. We also celebrate the opening of two university training programs in biofeedback and neurofeedback, which promise to provide further momentum to BCIA’s University Initiative. Celeste DeBease has taught biofeedback at Widener University at the Institute of Graduate Psychology, in Celeste was offered a job in biofeedback at Northwestern hospital soon after she graduated. Her mentors were Marie Stoner and Frank Echenhoffer. Celeste’s vision for the future of BCIA and the field is that as the field grows, the number of subspecialties will grow and the level of expertise will deepen. As a psychologist, she sees biofeedback technology as the modern-day psychoanalytic couch. It is a way to get in and uncover parts of ourselves that we might not have conscious access to and to mirror those parts to ourselves. Harry Campbell has taught biofeedback/neurofeedback to more than 5,000 students in more than 12 years. His specialties are biofeedback for stress management and muscular pain as well as alpha/theta neurofeedback for deep relaxation. He has taught for Biofeedback Resources International and the American Biofeedback Corporation at BCIA seminars in New York. He has also trained staff at universities, colleges, hospitals, military bases, and veterans’ hospitals across the United States. Adam Crane, who also mentored Harry, came to his high school and demonstrated biofeedback to Harry’s class for Science and Technology Day. Harry was amazed and intrigued at how the body’s reaction to thoughts could be measured and fed back. He had always been interested in science and technology, so this was very exciting to him. Harry started working part time for Adam in his biofeedback instrument business after school and continued throughout college. He continued to work with Adam after graduation.