Debra Burdick, LCSW, BCN, also known as “The Brain Lady,” is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and board certified neurofeedback practitioner who recently retired from private practice to slow down and focus on writing and speaking. She is a national speaker and #1 bestselling author who provided outpatient psychotherapy and mindfulness skills to her clients for 25 years and neurofeedback for 16 years. She is an expert author on SelfGrowth.com
Debra specializes in ADHD, depression, anxiety, stress, pain, sleep, and healing. She teaches all-day workshops including: Childhood ADHD: Advanced Non-drug Treatments That Change the Brain, 100 Brain-changing Mindfulness Strategies for Clinical Practice, A Holistic Approach to Success with ADHD and more. You can find DVDs of her workshops at www.pesi.com. Besides her private practice, Debra worked at the Child Guidance Clinic, Family Services, Child and Family Agency, and Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, CT.
Debra has extensive experience helping children and adults thrive with ADHD. In addition to counseling and training the brains of hundreds of clients with ADHD over the past 25 years, she parented a daughter who has ADHD, was married to a man with ADHD, and was business partners with someone with ADHD. She combines knowledge gained from her own personal healing journey, her parenting experience, her clients, and her professional study of ADHD, brain dysregulation and neurofeedback into her holistic, non-medication approach.
Her books and CDs include:
• Mindfulness Skills for Kids & Teens. A Workbook for Clinicians and Clients with 154 Tools, Techniques, Activities & Worksheets
• Mindfulness Skills Workbook for Clinicians and Clients: 111 Tools, Techniques, Activities and Worksheets
• Is It Really ADHD? Only ADHD? How to Get an Accurate Diagnosis for You or Your Child
• ADHD and Sleep—Children and Adults; Sleep Better Tonight
• ADHD Treatment Options. How to Choose the Right Treatment for You or Your Child
• A Holistic Approach to Successful Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder—A Home Study System for Parents
• Meditations for Concentration CD/mp3
• Mindfulness Toolkit CD/mp3
• Mindfulness Toolkit for Kids and Teens CD/mp3
• Meditation for Sleep mp3
Debra continues to write books and teach presentations, workshops, and teleseminars. She is often interviewed on Internet radio and her work has been featured on Doctors of the USA, Attention Talk Radio and ADHD Support Talk Radio, The Day newspaper and Self-Improvement magazine, plus Parenting Powers and Restoring Health Holistically television shows.
For more information visit www.TheBrainLady.com.