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Two of the most promising emerging areas in biofeedback are heart rate variability training and respiratory training. This program will briefly introduce the physiology of heart rate variability (HRV) and its significance in medical research. The presenter will describe HRV biofeedback and the resonance frequency protocol. He will review evidence-based applications of HRV biofeedback and analyze the mechanisms for the therapeutic benefit of HRV training. He will introduce HRV mobile devices and smart phone apps and summarize recent research studies applying mobile devices to diving anxiety, test anxiety, clinical anxiety disorders, and female sexual arousal disorder. Next he will briefly describe the physiology of respiration and introduce respiratory biofeedback. He will summarize the research on capnometry-based respiratory biofeedback for anxiety disorders, including a recent study applying a mobile capnometry device to post-traumatic stress disorder. Attendees will benefit from better understanding of HRV and respiratory biofeedback and from exposure to available mobile devices and apps for training outside the office. 

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Register here. Have you ever wanted to measure psychophysiology (HRV, skin conductance/arousal, and temperature) from a group of people simultaneously? If so, it might be because you work with teams of athletes, or you counsel families, or you teach office staff about stress, or you teach students about the mind-body connection. Either way, the Synergy Solution is the tool you need for objectively measuring biometric data from up-to-4 individuals at the same time with on a single computer. Join Jon Bale for this live webinar where he will discuss the capabilities of the Synergy Solution: competitive and cooperative biofeedback, ranked player reporting, general measurement and research possibilities.

Register here. Join us in this webinar, where we will talk about this collaborative project as well as present basic anatomical and physiological concepts associated with the stress response (breathing, heart rate variability, peripheral temperature, and galvanic/electrodermal skin response). These biosignals can be harnessed into both assessment tools as well as a training tools to facilitate physiological balance for stress management. Thought Technology will also be offering an ambitious deal to facilitate the project's success.

Register here. HRV Biofeedback (HRVB) has emerged as a powerful tool to improve flexibility in the autonomic nervous system. In this Webinar, I offer a brief introduction to the measurement of HRV and introductory protocols for HRVB touching on some applications with strong empirical support.

Dr. Richard Gevirtz is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in San Diego. He has been in involved in research and clinical work in applied psychophysiology and biofeedback for the last 30 years and was the president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 2006-2007. His primary research interests are in understanding the physiological and psychological mediators involved in disorders such as chronic muscle pain, fibromyalgia, and gastrointestinal pain. In this vein, he has studied applications of heart rate variability biofeedback for anxiety, pain, gastrointestinal, cardiac rehabilitation and other disorders.  He is the author of many journal articles and chapters on these topics. He also maintains a part time clinical practice treating patients with anxiety and stress related disorders.

Register here. HRV is a strong indicator of the flexibility and resilience of our nervous system. Tracking HRV helps in assessing progress in therapy as well as estimating the client’s overall health and well-being. Moreover, attending to real-time changes during a therapy session provides valuable insights into the client's in-the-moment response, allowing the therapist to focus discussion on experiences that would have otherwise gone unnoticed.
Finally, training HRV through biofeedback improves self-regulation and alleviates symptoms of psychophysiological disorders, such as anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic pain, and GI distress, further increasing the efficacy of psychotherapy. In this webinar, we will discuss easy practical ways of integrating HRV into psychotherapy, including a discussion of metrics for HRV tracking and guidelines for integrating HRV training into psychotherapy.