When we’re navigating fertility challenges, pregnancy, postpartum recovery, or the early years of parenting, our brains are under constant pressure to adapt. Stress hormones spike, sleep is disrupted, and our nervous system can start to feel stuck in high alert—or like it’s barely functioning at all. Over time, this can show up as persistent anxiety, depression, brain fog, rage, emotional numbness, or exhaustion that doesn’t get better with rest.

LENS (Low Energy Neurofeedback System) offers a way to gently interrupt these patterns and support your brain in returning to a more regulated, responsive state.

LENS can help by:

• Reducing the emotional toll of fertility stress and the trauma of loss or failed treatments

• Supporting emotional healing after a distressing or traumatic birth

• Easing symptoms of postpartum depression, rage, and emotional overwhelm supporting mood stability

• Promoting better sleep, focus, energy regulation and nervous system repair

• Helping you feel more present and connected with yourself, your body, and your loved ones

• Calming fight-or-flight responses, reducing feelings of panic, agitation, and rage

• Alleviating brain fog, irritability, and overwhelm

• Supporting better sleep, rest, and nervous system repair
  
  Because LENS works below the level of conscious processing, it’s ideal for those who feel too emotionally raw to talk—or who have already done a lot of therapy but still feel something hasn’t fully shifted.

LENS works by using a tiny, non-invasive electromagnetic signal—far weaker than a cell phone—to gently stimulate the brain and reflect back your own brainwave activity with a slight offset. This subtle disruption acts like a nudge, helping the brain “let go” of stuck patterns and reboot itself, much like restarting a computer or clearing out old tabs.

Unlike traditional neurofeedback, LENS doesn’t require effort, attention, or training. You don’t need to concentrate or perform any tasks—it simply helps your brain do what it’s built to do: adapt, regulate, and return to balance.

When you come to the office for a LENS session, you’ll sit comfortably and the clinician will place sensor clips on each earlobe and one to two sensors at a time on various spots on your head, corresponding with what areas we are treating that day. Treatment to each area only lasts a few seconds and then we remove the sensors.

Most folks don’t feel anything, some describe a sense of feeling a wave go through their head or a gentle buzzing. You may feel a sense of calming or quieting in your mind, too. Side effect rates are very low and could include feeling tired, moody, or dizzy- if those happen let your clinician know.

LENS is not a substitute for therapy or medical care—but it is a powerful complement. It can help reduce internal “noise” so that other forms of healing become more accessible and effective. Whether you’re trying to conceive, recovering from a traumatic birth, or parenting through mood and anxiety challenges, LENS can offer relief and help you reconnect with your own resilience.

LENS can enhance your therapy—or stand on its own.

At Growing Well Counseling, we offer LENS Neurofeedback both as a standalone service and as an integrated part of ongoing therapy. You do not need to be a current therapy client to receive LENS sessions here.

You may choose to:

• Add LENS to your current individual therapy with us for extra nervous system support between sessions

• Come to us just for LENS, while continuing therapy with another provider

• Use LENS as a stand-alone support, especially if you’re feeling too overwhelmed to talk, or simply want a non-verbal approach to relief

LENS is a flexible option that can complement any healing path—especially when emotional processing feels stuck, talk therapy feels too activating, or your nervous system is in a state of chronic stress or shutdown.