Biofeedback Therapists in Pittsburgh, PA
If you’re looking for a therapist, you're ready for something in your life to change. Are you tired of trying to figure things out on your own? Are you struggling with your important relationships? Do the people you usually turn to for guidance no longer seem to know how to help? Whatever brought you to this point, your regular ways of making yourself feel better are no longer enough to restore your peace of mind. You don’t need to deal with all of that alone.
If you’re looking for a therapist, you're ready for something in your life to change. Are you tired of trying to figure things out on your own? Are you struggling with your important relationships? Do the people you usually turn to for guidance no longer seem to know how to help? Whatever brought you to this point, your regular ways of making yourself feel better are no longer enough to restore your peace of mind. You don’t need to deal with all of that alone.
Christopher Rauhoff works with people in need of regulating their focus, reducing anxiety, and managing their behavior in social, educational, and professional situations. Often, clients cannot gather their thoughts, are irritated by the world around them, and feel disconnected from others. Students report being unable to read with full comprehension, to understand assignments, able to organize the hundred activities that collide in the brain and that they feel are impossible to sort out. Many feel isolated and lonely at school.
Christopher Rauhoff works with people in need of regulating their focus, reducing anxiety, and managing their behavior in social, educational, and professional situations. Often, clients cannot gather their thoughts, are irritated by the world around them, and feel disconnected from others. Students report being unable to read with full comprehension, to understand assignments, able to organize the hundred activities that collide in the brain and that they feel are impossible to sort out. Many feel isolated and lonely at school.
Specializing in ADHD and Autism evaluations - Knight Psychological Services provides a range of services designed to address a variety of needs. This includes, but is not limited to, outpatient counseling, psychological testing, testing for giftedness and learning disabilities, and educational consultation. We diagnose and treat conditions such as Autism, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. We strive to practice in a culturally competent manner and utilize a fundamentally compassionate approach. We feel that the client is an integral part of treatment and that individual needs and goals will drive the treatment process.
Specializing in ADHD and Autism evaluations - Knight Psychological Services provides a range of services designed to address a variety of needs. This includes, but is not limited to, outpatient counseling, psychological testing, testing for giftedness and learning disabilities, and educational consultation. We diagnose and treat conditions such as Autism, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. We strive to practice in a culturally competent manner and utilize a fundamentally compassionate approach. We feel that the client is an integral part of treatment and that individual needs and goals will drive the treatment process.
Therapy for the ones who feel too much, think too fast, and know they’re meant for more.
You’ve survived things no one knows how to name. You’re smart, sensitive, maybe even a little weird (in the best way). You’ve tried to hold it all together, but something’s cracking—and maybe that’s good. You’re looking for healing that’s real, not robotic. You want therapy that makes sense, helps you grow, and maybe even laugh sometimes. You want someone who gets it—who sees your fire and your shadows. You’re not just looking to “cope.” You’re here to transform.
Therapy for the ones who feel too much, think too fast, and know they’re meant for more.
You’ve survived things no one knows how to name. You’re smart, sensitive, maybe even a little weird (in the best way). You’ve tried to hold it all together, but something’s cracking—and maybe that’s good. You’re looking for healing that’s real, not robotic. You want therapy that makes sense, helps you grow, and maybe even laugh sometimes. You want someone who gets it—who sees your fire and your shadows. You’re not just looking to “cope.” You’re here to transform.
Whether you suffer from the effects of a single trauma or a lifetime of overwhelming events, relationship distress, tough transitions, compulsive behavior, or addiction, we can help. We bring focused, informed attention to touch your concerns at a depth and pace respectful of your boundaries. Working together, stuck places move; painful, unsustainable states return to balance. Amy's decades of experience working with stress, intergenerational patterns, and chronic suffering via bodywork, movement therapy, group facilitation, and psychotherapy informs our work. Each provider enriches our approach to eliciting change.
Whether you suffer from the effects of a single trauma or a lifetime of overwhelming events, relationship distress, tough transitions, compulsive behavior, or addiction, we can help. We bring focused, informed attention to touch your concerns at a depth and pace respectful of your boundaries. Working together, stuck places move; painful, unsustainable states return to balance. Amy's decades of experience working with stress, intergenerational patterns, and chronic suffering via bodywork, movement therapy, group facilitation, and psychotherapy informs our work. Each provider enriches our approach to eliciting change.
I blend talk therapy with body-based and biofeedback methods.
Your system learned to hold itself together through tension—and that worked, until it didn't. Now strain shows up as anxiety, sleeplessness, a temper on a hair trigger, or a numbness you can't shake. I help adults release what they've been gripping and find an easier way to hold shape. I work with people facing career crossroads, relationship trouble, stress that's gone physical, or a sense that something needs to change. Together we slow down, listen to what's actually happening underneath, and let that signal guide us. You don't need to arrive with a diagnosis or a plan—just the sense that you're ready for the next step.
I blend talk therapy with body-based and biofeedback methods.
Your system learned to hold itself together through tension—and that worked, until it didn't. Now strain shows up as anxiety, sleeplessness, a temper on a hair trigger, or a numbness you can't shake. I help adults release what they've been gripping and find an easier way to hold shape. I work with people facing career crossroads, relationship trouble, stress that's gone physical, or a sense that something needs to change. Together we slow down, listen to what's actually happening underneath, and let that signal guide us. You don't need to arrive with a diagnosis or a plan—just the sense that you're ready for the next step.
If you've experienced trauma, if you are looking for relief from physical symptoms of stress and anxiety, or if you feel unseen or unheard in this world, I'd be honored to support you. I help my clients explore their life stories, the complexity of their relationships, and the implications of living in our current societal structure.
If you've experienced trauma, if you are looking for relief from physical symptoms of stress and anxiety, or if you feel unseen or unheard in this world, I'd be honored to support you. I help my clients explore their life stories, the complexity of their relationships, and the implications of living in our current societal structure.
Dr. Waggy Zeleke is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland. With over 15 years of experience, Dr. Zeleke specializes in working with diverse populations dealing with relationship issues, depression, trauma, anxiety, autism, adoption, parenting, and other mental health disorders. As a provider of evidence-based, culturally responsive individual, family, and group psychotherapy, Dr. Zeleke also offers individual, group, and organizational consulting. Feel free to call now to schedule an appointment or visit www.ubuntucounseling.com to explore Dr. Zeleke's service.
Dr. Waggy Zeleke is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland. With over 15 years of experience, Dr. Zeleke specializes in working with diverse populations dealing with relationship issues, depression, trauma, anxiety, autism, adoption, parenting, and other mental health disorders. As a provider of evidence-based, culturally responsive individual, family, and group psychotherapy, Dr. Zeleke also offers individual, group, and organizational consulting. Feel free to call now to schedule an appointment or visit www.ubuntucounseling.com to explore Dr. Zeleke's service.
Throughout my 10 years working in mental health, I have learned how important it is to our healing to be connected in heart and body. I believe building a better understanding of this mind-body connection and the impact it can have on both our physical and mental health is critical in symptom management, emotional regulation, stress management, overall health and wellness, and navigating our everyday life in this world.
Throughout my 10 years working in mental health, I have learned how important it is to our healing to be connected in heart and body. I believe building a better understanding of this mind-body connection and the impact it can have on both our physical and mental health is critical in symptom management, emotional regulation, stress management, overall health and wellness, and navigating our everyday life in this world.
Stepping into a therapeutic relationship and offering your trust to someone you are just beginning to know is an act of profound resilience and courage. I am continually in awe of my clients’ bravery and deeply humbled to walk alongside them as they explore, heal, and grow.
Stepping into a therapeutic relationship and offering your trust to someone you are just beginning to know is an act of profound resilience and courage. I am continually in awe of my clients’ bravery and deeply humbled to walk alongside them as they explore, heal, and grow.
We start by helping your body feel safer through various approaches such as biofeedback, breathwork/meditation, and the Safe and Sound Protocol so your nervous system doesn’t have to work so hard.
Maybe chronic stress, anxiety, or trauma has your nervous system stuck on high alert, so that even when life is relatively stable, you don't actually feel that way. Maybe your past experiences show up now as hypervigilance, tension, irritability, insomnia, or shutting down. Maybe you're managing burnout, depression, relationship struggles, or patterns you just can't seem to shake. Maybe you're tired of merely surviving and ready to actually feel different. With a background in social justice, many of my clients are queer folks, activists, and others for whom identity/politics/systemic context are part of their story.
We start by helping your body feel safer through various approaches such as biofeedback, breathwork/meditation, and the Safe and Sound Protocol so your nervous system doesn’t have to work so hard.
Maybe chronic stress, anxiety, or trauma has your nervous system stuck on high alert, so that even when life is relatively stable, you don't actually feel that way. Maybe your past experiences show up now as hypervigilance, tension, irritability, insomnia, or shutting down. Maybe you're managing burnout, depression, relationship struggles, or patterns you just can't seem to shake. Maybe you're tired of merely surviving and ready to actually feel different. With a background in social justice, many of my clients are queer folks, activists, and others for whom identity/politics/systemic context are part of their story.
Teion Ensley-Ellerbe, LAPC is a Clinical Mental Health Counseling Professional that provides services at Calm Pittsburgh. I enjoy working with adults and adolescents to help find, or rediscover, the best version of themselves that they may have lost trying to navigate life and its challenges. I have experience in counseling clients through grief, anxiety, depression, addiction, ageing-related issues and hardships, and overall life transitions and conflict. In practice, my clinical approaches with clients are Person-Centered and Cognitive Behavioral. I am to meet the client where they are in sessions
Teion Ensley-Ellerbe, LAPC is a Clinical Mental Health Counseling Professional that provides services at Calm Pittsburgh. I enjoy working with adults and adolescents to help find, or rediscover, the best version of themselves that they may have lost trying to navigate life and its challenges. I have experience in counseling clients through grief, anxiety, depression, addiction, ageing-related issues and hardships, and overall life transitions and conflict. In practice, my clinical approaches with clients are Person-Centered and Cognitive Behavioral. I am to meet the client where they are in sessions
My name is Sarah McKendry, and I created Empowered Self Occupational Therapy to support patients learning to manage life with chronic conditions. I received my Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from the University of Pittsburgh and have had the privilege of working in outpatient care, treating a wide variety of musculoskeletal, neurological, and chronic conditions. My passion lies in supporting individuals with chronic fatigue, chronic pain, autoimmune disorders, hypermobility/EDS, and other complex conditions.
My name is Sarah McKendry, and I created Empowered Self Occupational Therapy to support patients learning to manage life with chronic conditions. I received my Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from the University of Pittsburgh and have had the privilege of working in outpatient care, treating a wide variety of musculoskeletal, neurological, and chronic conditions. My passion lies in supporting individuals with chronic fatigue, chronic pain, autoimmune disorders, hypermobility/EDS, and other complex conditions.
I imagine if you are here, you are feeling anxious, stressed, unsupported, overwhelmed, unmotivated, or depressed and you want to start feeling more uplifted, experience more joy and create a positive vision for your future. I can help you navigate current challenges from anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationship issues, or recurring negative thoughts that hold you back. I aim to help you notice more of your strengths and successes, so you can start to feel more hopeful, empowered and resilient. Working with me, you will have a safe place to process feelings, thoughts, and move closer to your desired life goals.
I imagine if you are here, you are feeling anxious, stressed, unsupported, overwhelmed, unmotivated, or depressed and you want to start feeling more uplifted, experience more joy and create a positive vision for your future. I can help you navigate current challenges from anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationship issues, or recurring negative thoughts that hold you back. I aim to help you notice more of your strengths and successes, so you can start to feel more hopeful, empowered and resilient. Working with me, you will have a safe place to process feelings, thoughts, and move closer to your desired life goals.
My name is Debbie Chisolm, and I have a Clinical License in Social Work, a Clinical License in Counseling, and a Clinical License in Addictions. I have several approaches I use towards therapy that consist of Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, etc. My focus is geared towards first meeting the person where he/she is at, focusing on the whole person, changing behaviors, feelings, and thoughts, and guiding each one towards meeting their life goals and using the wellness to recovery approach.
My name is Debbie Chisolm, and I have a Clinical License in Social Work, a Clinical License in Counseling, and a Clinical License in Addictions. I have several approaches I use towards therapy that consist of Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, etc. My focus is geared towards first meeting the person where he/she is at, focusing on the whole person, changing behaviors, feelings, and thoughts, and guiding each one towards meeting their life goals and using the wellness to recovery approach.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Come join me on a journey to self-discovery. Whether it's personal relationship problems, neurological disorders, exploring personal identity or creating that set of habits to help you get back on track, I'll be there with you, every step of the way. Whether it's hard to move forward due to a personal block, dealing with a traumatic experience or a block with communication. Let's sit down and talk.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Come join me on a journey to self-discovery. Whether it's personal relationship problems, neurological disorders, exploring personal identity or creating that set of habits to help you get back on track, I'll be there with you, every step of the way. Whether it's hard to move forward due to a personal block, dealing with a traumatic experience or a block with communication. Let's sit down and talk.
Many find themselves at a point in their lives where external support is necessary to navigate life's challenges. My clients seek therapy for a variety of reasons. Some may come to therapy to deal with a specific struggle, such as anxiety or depression, while others initiate therapy during a difficult life transition. Even positive transitions, such as getting a new job or starting a new relationship can be stressful. Together, we will merge our resources to address these challenges in a safe environment by exploring patterns, processing events from the past, and creating plans for change in the future.
Many find themselves at a point in their lives where external support is necessary to navigate life's challenges. My clients seek therapy for a variety of reasons. Some may come to therapy to deal with a specific struggle, such as anxiety or depression, while others initiate therapy during a difficult life transition. Even positive transitions, such as getting a new job or starting a new relationship can be stressful. Together, we will merge our resources to address these challenges in a safe environment by exploring patterns, processing events from the past, and creating plans for change in the future.
I have completed certified training in biofeedback and hypnotherapy.
My goal is to help you live a healthy, purposeful life. If you choose to work with me, you can expect a therapist dedicated to your wellbeing, with deep respect for your values and worldview. I strive to cultivate a safe, nonjudgmental space, in which you are seen, heard, and understood. I tailor evidence-based techniques to meet your needs, such as CBT, DBT, ACT, and mindfulness meditation.
I have completed certified training in biofeedback and hypnotherapy.
My goal is to help you live a healthy, purposeful life. If you choose to work with me, you can expect a therapist dedicated to your wellbeing, with deep respect for your values and worldview. I strive to cultivate a safe, nonjudgmental space, in which you are seen, heard, and understood. I tailor evidence-based techniques to meet your needs, such as CBT, DBT, ACT, and mindfulness meditation.
I am Licensed a professional Counseling (LPC) from the state of Pennsylvania. I have been providing services in the social services field for 15 years. I have versatile experience with competence in providing therapeutic milieu for individuals with affect behavioral changes and improve the individual's psychological health and functioning.
I am Licensed a professional Counseling (LPC) from the state of Pennsylvania. I have been providing services in the social services field for 15 years. I have versatile experience with competence in providing therapeutic milieu for individuals with affect behavioral changes and improve the individual's psychological health and functioning.
I am a liberation and embodiment-oriented healing companion, empowering people seeking a trauma-certified practitioner with support through the things that make living life, understanding ourselves, and connecting with others feel so hard. I bring a curious and expansive approach to support the exploration and integration of life experiences and authentic identity: relational, familial, cultural, gender, sexuality, race, ability, etc. I specialize in Complex (Sexual/Relational/Intergenerational) Trauma, intimate and familial relationship challenges, grief, life transitions, low self-esteem, Queer/Trans support, and decolonial care.
I am a liberation and embodiment-oriented healing companion, empowering people seeking a trauma-certified practitioner with support through the things that make living life, understanding ourselves, and connecting with others feel so hard. I bring a curious and expansive approach to support the exploration and integration of life experiences and authentic identity: relational, familial, cultural, gender, sexuality, race, ability, etc. I specialize in Complex (Sexual/Relational/Intergenerational) Trauma, intimate and familial relationship challenges, grief, life transitions, low self-esteem, Queer/Trans support, and decolonial care.
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Biofeedback Therapists
Can biofeedback help with anxiety?
Biofeedback is often used to treat anxiety, including generalized anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Anecdotal evidence and some research studies have found that it can improve symptoms of these disorders, sometimes significantly; however, studies on biofeedback have typically been small and researchers have cautioned that many have significant limitations, such as limited follow-up or a lack of a control group.
Is biofeedback evidence-based?
There is some evidence that biofeedback can effectively treat certain conditions; for example, its efficacy in treating headaches and urinary incontinence is generally thought to be well-established. There is also promising, but less conclusive, evidence that it can aid in stroke recovery or help someone manage a mental health disorder such as anxiety, depression, or ADHD.
What is the difference between biofeedback and neurofeedback?
Neurofeedback is a type of biofeedback that measures brain activity specifically; it is typically used to treat psychological or neurodevelopmental concerns such as ADHD, depression, insomnia, or autism spectrum disorder. Biofeedback is a broader category that, in addition to neurofeedback, also includes electromyogram, heart rate variability, and thermal biofeedback, each of which measures a particular physiological function (muscle activity, heart rate, and skin temperature, respectively)
What are the limitations of biofeedback?
While biofeedback may be helpful for certain conditions, its efficacy is less assured for others, such as high blood pressure. People with certain health conditions such as heart arrhythmia may not be able to benefit from biofeedback because their condition may interfere with the machines’ readings. Biofeedback can also be time-consuming and costly, and may not be covered by health insurance.