Karen Duncan is Director of Trainer Development for Brain-Trainer International (BTI) and part owner since 2013. In addition to her role with Brain-Trainer International, she has owned her own neurofeedback practice which has helped thousands train their own brains since 2004.

Karen started her neurofeedback journey when she trained with Pete Van Deusen in 2003 to train herself and her own family. Because of the amazing success with her own training she shared her passion with others. In 2004 she co-founded and led a Home-Trainers Support Group – the first in the United States – which grew to 200+ members. Through her own practice and the Home-Trainers group, Karen provided support to families and professional clinicians in the Wash DC/MD /VA metro area and beyond.

In 2005-2006 Karen provided on-site consultation to the local county mental health program in Virginia, where she mentored, trained, and supported county mental health therapists in neurofeedback. She mentored county therapists and social workers in software installation, assessment skills, training plan development, and client management techniques. Karen’s mentorship helped the county establish their own neurofeedback program.

In 2012 Karen completed her masters in Applied Healing Arts from Maryland University of Integrated Health. This Taoist based program helped her step more into a responsibility to be a service to the world and all of life, without apology, excuse or ego in a much bolder way. This more developed skill allowed for her to not act based on judgment, and to allow each situation, person, and event to stand on its own at its own starting place rather than it/them have a preconceived stereotype or assumption. She successfully completed her master’s project, which was to develop and deliver a mindfulness curriculum to middle school classes and 2 pre-school class over the course of six months in Wash DC and Virginia.

After obtaining her masters, Karen resumed her involvement in non-profit/public organizations. From 2016-2017, Karen provided neurofeedback services to a non-profit organization that provides court appointed mental health and support services for battery intervention, anger management and troubled home environments for Virginia residents, which helped Karen gain insights into clients who would normally avoid seeking neurofeedback on their own.

To this day, Karen provides technical consulting for neurofeedback software and hardware devices along with interpretation of brainwave patterns and providing training/protocol plans to home trainers and certified clinicians in the US and abroad. Karen’s passion is helping people become the hero of their own success story. She has dedicated her life to helping others learn to help themselves through neurofeedback. She provides help with multiple healing modalities and she continues to work with clients through her practice because she believes that learning never stops. Karen’s approach to neurofeedback training and service to others is amply reflected in the personal “promise” she made as an Applied Healing Arts graduate: “I, no matter what, when, where, or for whom, will show up in the world as a ‘radiant alchemist of healing possibilities’ ”.

• The tools Karen has experience with using are:
• Optima4+ Amplifier (EEG/HEG) Neurobit Systems, Inc
• BT2 recording & training Software
• TQ8 mapping and planning software
• BioExplorer Software, CyberEvolution
• Brain-Trainer for BioEra software (BT4BE) Brain-Trainer International, Inc
• TQ7 Trainer’s Q (brain mapping)
• BrainMaster Software, BrainMaster, Inc.
• Wild Divine Biofeedback Guided Meditation and Biofeedback Device, Wild Divine, Inc.
• Healing Rhythms Software, Wild Divine, Inc.
• BrainMaster Neurofeedback Recording Amplifier, BrainMaster, Inc.
• Pocket A3 Neurofeedback Recording Amplifier, Pocket-Neurobics, Inc.
• Pendant Neurofeedback Recording Amplifier for EEG, nIR HEG, and pIR HEG, Pocket-Neurobics, Inc.
• nIR HEG Headband Training Device, Hershel Toomim /BioComp Research Institute
• pIR HEG Headband training device, Jeff Carmen
• EZ pIR software and hardware device
• HeartMath Emwave Coherence Monitor, HeartMath, Inc.
• DavidPal Light and Sound Device, MindAlive, Inc.
• pRoshi Light Device, Roshi Corp.
• 8-Channel Quantum Neurofeedback Recording Amplifier, QDS, Inc.
• Q-Wiz Amplifier (EEG/HEG ) Pocket-Neurobics, Inc

Tamera Siminow, MA, Counseling Psychology, VA
Supports BT2, BioEra and BioExplorer software

A meandering path brought Tamera into the world of counseling, and then into neurofeedback. As an undergraduate Tamera majored in political science, but also worked as a peer counselor. After graduation, she worked as a domestic violence counselor and continued that work while in graduate school for political science.

She ended up working on Capitol Hill and later for the federal government for many years, then finally responded to the constant nudges and returned to graduate school for a mid-life career change into counseling. A few years after earning her master’s degree in counseling psychology, a fellow psychotherapist introduced her to neurofeedback and as a result of discovering the power of it in helping both teens and adults she has been offering it for over 13 years.

Tamera enjoys helping stressed-out, overwhelmed, anxious people start to feel comfortable in their own skin. This primarily translates into teenagers who are struggling with the highly competitive pressures of life in Northern Virginia and middle-aged folk who’ve been juggling too much, often burning the candle at both ends, for far too long.

However, Tamera has also had the privilege of working with a large number of people who have been adopted and have huge brain challenges as a result of adoption. These populations found her, and she discovered that they are especially enjoyable for her to work with, especially the teens.

“When I first came to neurofeedback, I’d been working in a highly toxic environment with people who were engaging in sketchy behavior. That took its toll on me, and neurofeedback helped me regain my footing so that I wasn’t always over-responding to stressors in my life. These days, since I have the tool of neurofeedback always at my disposal, I use it whenever I feel stressed out.

“I get the best results when my training plan relies upon a combination of what the Trainers’ qEEG shows are the patterns in a person’s brain, their specific desired outcomes, and my intuition regarding what might be needed on any given day. For example, if someone comes in from a rough day at school or work and is especially stressed out, I may switch up my rotation and instead focus that day on using the most calming protocols that would benefit their particular brain patterns.

“I tried equipment from another company, but it was expensive and could not be customized the way Brain-Trainer designs can be. I also prefer that Brain-Trainer focuses on whole brain training rather than aiming toward (a non-existent) normal or pretending to treat specific diagnoses. The brain does not correspond with the DSM, so I see that approach as being hit-or-miss. I feel like I can get better results by aiming toward higher, optimal brain patterns which is what Brain-Trainer is about.”

Stacey Breitmann, BS TN, USA
Supports BT2, BioEra and BioExplorer software

You know the power of neurofeedback and the science behind it all and you want to get training as simply and quickly as possible. That’s my specialty! I have developed a proven system that will enable you to start train yourself and others within one week! I have also developed a rental program, complete with training and forms, so you can expand your reach in empowering others. Interested? Keep reading!

I was introduced to neurofeedback 3 years ago when 3 different people in my life suggested it for our daughter who is on the Autism Spectrum. After years of trying many different things to help her with no success, we decided to give it a try. The results were nothing short of miraculous! After that, I knew I wanted to learn more. Through research, I found Pete and his Brain-Trainer system. He generously spent time with me on the phone explaining that I could train my own brain and others. He was right!

My background is in medical sales but for 11 years leading up to my neurofeedback career, I homeschooled our 2 daughters. This experience developed the ability to explain things in a very clear and concise way. Little did I know at the time that it would launch a neurofeedback practice/ rental business and mentoring curriculum.

I currently have a practice in Chattanooga, TN where clients come for neurofeedback sessions. I also rent systems to clients who would like to train multiple family members or live too far away for in office visits and mentor people who have purchased a system and want to get training quickly.

You might want me as a mentor if:

• You are a home trainer.
• You are a clinician and want to be up and training clients quickly.
• You want to start a rental business and don’t want to reinvent the wheel.
  I have all the forms, contracts, and training documents already done for you.

I have experience with:

BT2
BioEra
BioExplorer
Q-wiz
Optima

David Delight Pro
CES Ultra
HeartMath Inner Balance
Bellabee

Erica Lyme, Masters of Education/Licensed Teacher, OH
Supports BT2, BioEra and BioExplorer software

Erica Lyme earned her Masters of Education degree in 2002 from Ohio State University. She founded her own neurofeedback brain training and tutoring company, Executive Function Learning Center in 2013.

Erica was inspired to become a brain trainer since she knew neurofeedback could make a significant difference in people’s lives due to it making such a noticeable difference in her own life. Within 6-8 neurofeedback sessions Erica noticed that she was much more calm, relaxed, and focused even while under pressure.

Then an employment opportunity presented itself in 2006 to become a neurofeedback trainer in her area and she got hired. At the time, neurofeedback was not well known in her area. As her experience grew working with a variety of clients from all ages and backgrounds, it became apparent that brain training had a profound potential to help people enrich and change their lives.

The majority of the clients Erica works with are women seeking relief from stress and children needing help to succeed in school, as well as all areas of life. She was drawn to providing neurofeedback, due to it being an effective non-medical approach to help women and children improve the quality of their lives.

Erica’s most recent success story is helping a hearing impaired student get back on the Honor Roll after his grades were starting to suffer after discontinuing ADHD medication last summer. In addition, other students have been able to avoid taking ADHD medications altogether by training their brains with Erica.

Per Erica, the Brain-Trainer assessment program, training designs, education and support have been the essential components that have helped her become successful at helping her clients get the best results.

Erica’s initial experience learning neurofeedback training started with the Brain-Trainer system, therefore when the time came for her to open her own company, choosing the Brain-Trainer products, support and training was the natural choice for her given it was already working so well for her and her clients, and she also found it to be so user friendly as well as cost effective.

The reasons Erica says using the Brain-Trainer system is second to none is due to it’s brain assessment program allowing her to create client training plans based on their own unique brain patterns. Also, per Erica “I don’t know of another company that provides the training and support that Brain-Trainer provides.”

Pilar Rojas, Coordinator, Latin America, MEXICO
Supports BT2, BioExplorer and BioEra software

Pilar Rojas is a BTI Master Trainer and heads up the Latin American network for Brain-Trainer International. Pilar’s background is as an engineer, an executive coach and she also holds an MBA. She has a background building high performance teams in some of the largest pharma and medical device corporations in the world. This line of work ignited her passion for helping people to transform their lives, starting with her own.

After becoming an external consultant Pilar launched her own company, Protraccion. She researched tools and methodologies that could produce changes in her organization and those of her clients. She recognized that her Latin American client’s geographical areas and cultures have tremendous strengths. She also saw an opportunity to help them change many ineffective beliefs and behaviors.

A close relative & teacher in Colombia introduced Pilar to Peter Van Deusen & BTI and it was then she learned about how neurofeedback could be a tool she could use to help train her own brain as well as her clients brains in transforming their lives and businesses. In addition, meeting Peter Van Deusen has enabled Pilar to align with the BTI vision of making BTI neurofeedback methodology and technology accessible in Pilar’s own country, Mexico, as well as for people all across Latin America through developing a network of BTI neurofeedback practitioners.

During the past two years Pilar with the help of Peter and his BTI team have been able to increase the Brain-Trainer network in Latin America from 5 to almost 60 people between supervisors, Certified Trainers, Professional trainers and those interested in joining the BTI Latin American team.

Pilar’s mission is to expand the Spanish network of BTI brain trainers to create a virtual place where everybody shares, helps and supports the idea of helping themselves and others to become better people starting with themselves.

Along with growing the BTI network in Latin-American, Pilar loves creating win-win alliances. She has done so with the Biofeedback Clinic in Hospital Angeles in Mexico; with a Didactic Toy Company focused on schools, and with a kids club in a marginalized sector in the State of Mexico. All of these alliances are to raise awareness as well as give children and adults the opportunity to share their voices with the world.

Aida Ivan, Coordinator for Romania
Supports BT2, BioEra and BioExplorer software