Stone Mountain Counseling PC

Stone Mountain Counseling, PC uses a variety of therapeutic approaches, especially biofeedback and neurofeedback, along with psychotherapy and counseling, to help people achieve a calm and centered state along with a sense of well-being and optimal performance. (See pages: About us, and the LENS and Other Treatments).The bar at the top of our homepage contains some of the problem areas for which the LENS has been helpful.The bar at the left gives answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Tells you about our Center, the LENS and the various other treatment modalities we use; and gives you access to resources, articles and books. You can also find how to contact us.

In the October issue of Chronogram, Stone Mountain Counseling Center was featured in the article “Riding the Brain’s Waves.” Please click on the following link to read this article or to get a digital/print edition of this very informative piece by Kelley Granger about neurofeedback in the Hudson Valley.

http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2009/10/Whole+Living/Riding-the-Brain-s-Waves

Presented by:  Dr. Juan Acosta-Urquidi, QEEGT

Saturday – January 16, 2010 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Cost: $200

This day long technical workshop is for LENS practitioners who would like to expand their knowledge of QEEG, the standardized “lingua franca” of brain electrophysiology.  In this workshop you will learn how to utilize and evaluate QEEG brain topographic maps in connection with diagnosis, assessment and communication with other professionals in the brain sciences including neurologists, neuropsychologists, neuropsychiatrists and conventional neurofeedback practitioners.

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Our bi-monthly Open House at Stone Mountain Center offers an opportunity for prospective clients or the families of those already in treatment, to meet Dr. Stephen Larsen and the SMC staff in person and learn more about our biofeedback, neurofeedback and counseling services. Following each Open House theme presentation, light refreshments are served.

This month’s topic will focus on Stroke Recovery. Guests of honor will be Michael and Barbara Schacker.  Michael suffered a stroke that damaged much of his left cerebral cortex.  He is now in the process of recovering mobility of his right side and his language, which is growing day by day. He is currently benefiting from regular LENS (Low Energy Neurofeedback System) treatment at SMC and Dr. Stephen Larsen will discuss his progress and how neurofeedback can be used effectively with this type of brain injury.

Barbara Schacker from Strokefamily.org will give a presentation on her discoveries and success helping stroke survivors with speech recovery, even those considered “untreatable” or several years post-stroke. The “Sensory Trigger Method”, as she calls it, is a non-medical way that anyone can learn to make new pathways in the brain for speech by using the kinesthetic sensory memory channel that links to the speech center on the other (undamaged) side of the brain.

Stone Mountain Counseling, PC is proud to announce a new adjunct staff member:

JUAN ACOSTA, PhD, QEEGT,

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