Free Red Light Therapy for Your Brain, A Family Rental Story, and A Simple Tool For Challenging Your Thoughts.
The following are excerpts from Hamilton Neurofeedback’s September 2025 Newsletter (which you can sign up for here):
1) Free Intracranial Red Light Therapy
Hamilton Neurofeedback’s Vielight in Action
To give back and help more people, we’re permanently offering free (yes, completely free) intracranial red light therapy during your normal one-hour in-person sessions. This tool improves mood and anxiety and reduces symptoms of dementia, concussions, and PTSD. Even if you’re diagnosis-free, it will keep you and your brain feeling healthy and sharp.
Book now at either of our locations to give your brain a boost:
- Hamilton Clinic, downtown, Book online here.
- Burlington Clinic, ~3 minutes from the 403 on Guelph Line and Prospect, call or email to book a session covered by insurance.
You've probably seen red light therapy panels or masks that rejuvenate your skin. Picture the same thing but for your brain. Introducing Vielight.
How Vielight works: Red and infrared light help the mitochondria in your brain (the 'powerhouses of your cells') produce more energy and function better. Simply put the headset on, turn the infrared LEDs on for 20 minutes, and voila - your brain soaks up the light and functions better, basically side effect free.
Personally: I consistently notice that ~4 hours after a Vielight session I'm having a great day. I feel calm, I'm in a good mood, and it feels like I've had a perfect cup of coffee (minus the jitters).
What Vielight does:
- improves blood flow to the brain
- reduces brain inflammation
- helps support healthy cellular functioning
- supports healthy aging and protects against neurodegeneration
- improves mood, calmness and focus
Who can benefit from Vielight sessions: Although red light therapy is well researched, emerging research on its application to the brain suggests it helps with anxiety, mood, concussions, autism, long-covid, PTSD, neurodegenerative disease, and more. That said, you don't need to be symptomatic to benefit. This is part of why we're choosing to offer Vielight moving forward: it's a versatile tool that works just as well in non-symptomatic populations as it does symptomatic ones.
Still need convincing: Vielight has been featured on NBC news channels, and their website is rich with testimonials from top researchers, former pro athletes, and military veterans. For more, see this YouTube video discussing the results from a study on Vielight in treating concussions.
Bottom line: come see how it works for you! Vielight sessions are a free and simple add on to your regular neurofeedback session. Consider it a thank you for being a client of Hamilton Neurofeedback.
If you're curious, book a session at either of our locations:
- Hamilton Clinic, downtown, Book online here.
- Burlington Clinic, ~3 minutes from the 403 on Guelph Line and Prospect, call or email to book a session covered by insurance.
2) A Family (Rental) Affair
A recent NeurOptimal Neurofeedback rental family just set the all-time session record: 80 sessions in 5 weeks! Here’s what changed for them after ~20 sessions each:
- Mom: felt sharper, calmer, and more present
- Brother: slept better, less brain fog, better focus at work
- Son (with severe dyslexia): able to recall the day of the week for the first time ever, later reported feeling more clarity and less brain fog
- Teenage daughter: started cleaning her previously always messy room without being asked
Here's what the mother had to say about her experience with Hamilton Neurofeedback:
“I’m very glad I rented this machine and I would highly recommend it. The experience of renting was easy and allowed my family the freedom of using the device at our leisure, and allowed me to treat several of us at once. [...] I definitely recommend neurofeedback therapy.”
— Amanda M., Rental Client
Although effects like this often show up quickly, it sometimes takes weeks, months, or years to notice the more subtle changes neurofeedback creates (for more on this idea, see last month's newsletter blog: Identity Lags Reality). It will be exciting to follow up with this family over time to see what else unfolds for them.
What would it look like if your family beat the record? How would your lives change for the better? Book a free consultation to start brainstorming (there's even a prize if you beat the record).
3) Quick Tool For Challenging Your Thoughts
Here's a tool I show patients to help them 'unhook' from troubling thoughts which has them laughing in the face of their fears in ~three minutes. Here are the steps:
1) Identify a thought that you rationally know isn't true, but that you emotionally can't shake
2) Put it into a simple sentence (e.g. "my friends won't like me if I'm sad")
3) Say that sentence out loud and ask yourself how much you believe it on a scale of 1-10 (usually a six or above)
4) For one minute straight, say the thought out loud as fast as you can. Imagine a personal trainer pushing you to say it faster and faster
5) When one minute is up, switch to saying the thought as slowly as you can for another minute. However slowly you just imagined speaking, speak twice as slowly, then even slower. Laughing yet? Good, that's the point
6) Last step: switch to saying the thought in the silliest voice you can for another minute. Arnold Schwarzenegger? Great! Whale noises? Yes! Make it into a silly song? Bravo! Encore! This should begin to feel totally ridiculous. Again, that's the point — we're turning something that seems very emotionally serious into something to laugh about
7) Finally: take a few breaths and say the sentence out loud like you did at the beginning. Ask yourself how much you believe it now on a scale from 1-10 (usually a four or below) and note the change from a few minutes ago.
Every single time I've done this myself or with my patients, they end up feeling at least some relief from the seriousness they felt moments earlier.
This works by distancing our selves from the fears in our minds. We often buy into our fearful thoughts, believing them to be true without questioning them. This tactic de-fuses us from our thoughts, reminds us that they're only thoughts, and lets us laugh instead of dwell. It lightens the mood just enough to feel the fear and do it anyways. Most importantly, this works without neurofeedback.