Neurofeedback, qEEG brain mapping, and brain-based recovery coaching for clients who already know what to do, and need their nervous system to catch up. For addiction recovery, PTSD & trauma, high performers, and complex cases.
Each path has the same foundation (brain data, curriculum, and direct coaching), tuned to your situation.
Early or long-term recovery, relapse vulnerability, post-treatment support, family coordination.
How I helpNervous-system dysregulation, hypervigilance, sleep disruption, complex trauma alongside other care.
How I helpExecutives, founders, athletes, operators: focus, decision-making, stress capacity, sleep quality.
How I helpAnxiety, attention, sleep, post-concussion, brain fog. A structured look at the brain underneath the symptoms.
How I helpSix quick questions about the past two weeks. You get an instant snapshot of where insight is outrunning behavior, and specific next steps for your situation.
Most people in recovery are not short on insight. They can explain their triggers, name their patterns, and recite the plan. The problem is that cravings, resentment, and the urge to escape arrive faster than thought, from a brain that spent years learning them. NeuroRecovery works on that layer: the nervous system underneath the decision.
We start with a qEEG brain map, so we are training your brain and not a generic one. In recovery, the map often shows a nervous system that has trouble settling, or one that is running flat and reaching for stimulation. Either way, it gives us a concrete training target.
Neurofeedback trains the brain to find and hold more regulated states, so the baseline you are managing from gets easier. RISE coaching trains the skill of catching the trigger-to-behavior chain early: notice the body signal, label the state, downshift in 30 to 90 seconds, then act. Reps, not reflection.
Case management means I talk with your therapist, prescriber, sober coach, treatment center, and family, so you have one plan and everyone is working from the same data.
Scope. This is coaching, brain training, and care coordination. It is not addiction treatment or therapy, and it works best alongside them. Medication questions go to your prescriber; I help coordinate, I never prescribe.
Start with a free callTrauma leaves the nervous system tuned for threat: scanning, startling, bracing, or going numb. Talk therapy can build real understanding and still leave the body on alert. NeuroRecovery adds training that speaks the body's language, so the downshift becomes something you can do rather than something you have to wait for.
The brain map comes first. With trauma, maps frequently show patterns consistent with a nervous system stuck in high alert, or with a brain working hard to suppress it. Seeing that on paper is often a relief in itself: it is not a character flaw, it is a pattern, and patterns can be trained.
Neurofeedback gives the brain repeated practice at settling, and at staying settled, which is the capacity trauma erodes. RISE adds a physiology-first interrupt you can run in the moment: notice the trigger and the body cue, name the state, and downshift with breath and orienting before the story takes over. We never process traumatic material in coaching. That stays with your therapist.
I coordinate with your therapist (EMDR, somatic, CPT, or any modality), so the brain training supports the therapy instead of running parallel to it.
Scope. NeuroRecovery is not trauma therapy and does not diagnose PTSD. It is brain training and coaching designed to sit alongside your therapist's work. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 or contact local emergency services.
Start with a free callHigh performers rarely need more drive. They need a nervous system that recovers as fast as it fires, so the version of them that shows up under load is the one they chose. NeuroRecovery treats focus, stress tolerance, and sleep as trainable capacities, with data to show the change.
qEEG baseline first. The map shows where attention and recovery capacity are leaking: a brain that cannot idle, one that is over-aroused and calling it focus, or one that is sluggish and leaning on caffeine. We train toward the pattern you want to perform from.
Neurofeedback builds attention stability and faster recovery between demands. RISE is delivered as a stress-response skill: detect your state earlier, downshift in under a minute, then decide from the stronger version of you. Blood panel review and a supplementation strategy address sleep, inflammation, and energy, coordinated with your physician.
Everything is measured. A follow-up map and your own tracking show whether the training is working, and the protocol changes when the data says it should.
Scope. Lab and supplement work is educational and coordinated with your physician. Nothing here is a medical diagnosis or a prescription.
Start with a free callAnxiety, attention problems, poor sleep, lingering post-concussion symptoms, brain fog: they often get treated one symptom at a time. A brain map gives you a structured look at what is going on underneath, and a plan that follows from it. Sometimes that plan is training. Sometimes the first step is a conversation with a physician, and I will tell you which.
Map before plan. A qEEG shows how your brain is organizing attention, arousal, and recovery right now. You get a plain-language walkthrough of what we see and what it may relate to, interpreted as one piece of the picture, never as a diagnosis.
Then we choose the levers. Neurofeedback where the map points to a trainable pattern. Coaching for the habits, sleep, and stress responses that keep a pattern in place. Lab review and a supplementation strategy where physiology is part of the story. For post-concussion, the map doubles as a baseline so we can track recovery in the data, coordinated with your neurologist or physician.
Honest about fit. If I do not think brain training is the right next step for you, you will hear that on the first call, along with who I would talk to instead.
Scope. Brain maps are not diagnostic tools and NeuroRecovery does not diagnose or treat medical or mental health conditions. Where the picture points to a medical question, I will help you get it in front of the right provider.
Start with a free callMany clients are not failing because they lack intelligence, insight, or motivation. They are struggling because the brain and nervous system are stuck in patterns of dysregulation. When the brain is overloaded, injured, inflamed, addicted, sleep-deprived, or chronically stressed, the prefrontal cortex loses control, emotional reactivity increases, and behavior becomes more automatic.
NeuroRecovery works by combining objective data, structured curriculum, neurofeedback, and high-touch coaching to support behavior-driven neuroplasticity. The goal is to increase top-down control, strengthen prefrontal engagement, improve nervous system regulation, and help clients build practical tools for real-life emotional and behavioral control.
NeuroRecovery was founded by Devin Effinger, PhD, someone who has lived on both sides of this work. Following a traumatic brain injury and a long road through long-term recovery, the path forward required more than insight. It demanded a working understanding of how the brain, body, and behavior actually move together.
That understanding became a vocation. Devin spent five years building and running a nonprofit embedded inside jails, working face-to-face with individuals navigating addiction, trauma, and behavioral change. The curriculum developed over thousands of those hours, refined session by session in some of the highest-stakes environments imaginable, became the foundation for what is now the RISE Curriculum.
From there, he pursued formal scientific training: a PhD in Pharmacology, followed by a fellowship at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). That combination of lived recovery, frontline curriculum work, and rigorous neuroscientific training is the architecture behind NeuroRecovery's approach.
Seven services, built to combine, not compete. Each can stand alone or be layered into a personalized program with case management. They are laid out below in the order a full program usually runs.
The brain runs on the body. Before we train anything, we look at the physiology underneath energy, mood, cognition, sleep, and recovery capacity.
We review comprehensive blood panels, metabolic and inflammatory markers, nutrient status, and endocrine patterns, and translate them into plain language: what looks like a lever, what looks like noise, and what belongs in front of a physician.
NeuroRecovery does not provide medical diagnosis or prescribe medication. Blood panel analysis is used for educational and optimization purposes and is coordinated with licensed medical providers.
Based on lab data, history, goals, and provider collaboration when appropriate, we organize a supplementation and lifestyle strategy that supports brain health and recovery capacity.
No stacks for the sake of stacks. Every recommendation ties back to something in your data or your goals, and we track whether it is doing anything.
Supplementation guidance is educational and is reviewed against your medications with your prescriber.
Private sessions that connect brain state, physiology, emotion, narrative, and behavior, and then train what to do about it. Practical, direct, and built for real-world situations.
Sessions are 60 minutes, live by secure video, with in-person options in Colorado. Between sessions you have message access, and every session ends with one thing to practice before the next.
Coaching is skills training, not psychotherapy. It works alongside your therapist, not instead of one.
RISE is NeuroRecovery's proprietary behavior-change framework. It is skills training with reps and measurable outcomes, not therapy, not venting, not motivation. Most people try to change at the story. RISE trains you to enter earlier.
Detection, not analysis
Notice the trigger, the body cue, and the state. "I noticed the text. My chest is tight. I am in Threat." Body data only. No story yet.
30 to 90 seconds, physiology first
Change the state before debating the story. A paced exhale, a physiological sigh, orienting to the room, standing and walking. Engage the brake.
Now the narrative work begins
Only after activation drops: name the default story, check the evidence, look for what else could be true, widen the time horizon.
One move, within 10 minutes
One values-aligned action. Not a plan, a move. Behavior is what teaches the brain, and a new identity has to be acted into existence.
RISE was built over thousands of hours delivering curriculum inside jails, then refined with brain data. It is delivered as 1:1 coaching alongside neurofeedback, so the skill and the nervous system are trained at the same time.
Ask about RISE coachingA brain map is a recording of electrical activity across the whole scalp, compared against a normative database. It shows, objectively, how your brain is organizing attention, arousal, and recovery right now.
We use it to inform coaching and neurofeedback, to give families something other than reports to go on, and to track change over time. You get a plain-language walkthrough of what we see and what it may relate to.
Brain maps are not standalone diagnostic tools. They are interpreted as one piece of a broader picture.
Neurofeedback is non-invasive brain training. Sensors read your brain's electrical activity in real time, and you get feedback (a sound, a screen, a game that responds) when the brain produces the pattern we are training toward. Over repeated sessions, the brain learns to find and hold more regulated states on its own.
It starts with a qEEG brain map: a recording of activity across the whole scalp, compared to a normative database, that shows where attention, arousal, and recovery are over- or under-driven. The map picks the protocol. Monthly re-maps show whether it is working, and the protocol changes when the data says it should.
Brain maps are interpreted as one piece of a broader picture, not as standalone diagnostic tools. Neurofeedback is training, not medical treatment, and it works alongside your existing care.
Real qEEG maps and questionnaire scores from one client at baseline and one month later, shown de-identified. Green is typical for their age; warmer means more activity than typical, cooler means less. Individual results vary.
NeuroRecovery can serve as the coordinating layer between clients, families, treatment centers, physicians, therapists, psychiatrists, sober companions, and other members of a care team.
Most families are doing this job themselves. Handing it off means one plan instead of five, providers who actually talk to each other, and brain and body data translated into next steps the whole team can act on.
Case management coordinates care. It does not replace any licensed provider on your team.
We start with what's actually happening in the data, in the body, and in the behavior, then build a structured plan around it.
Clarify goals, history, current challenges, symptoms, lifestyle, recovery context, and available lab/brain data.
Review blood panels, brain maps, behavioral patterns, recovery history, provider input, and current support systems.
Develop a targeted coaching, curriculum, supplementation, neurofeedback, and case management plan.
Implement ongoing neurocoaching, RISE curriculum, neurofeedback, physiological optimization, and strategic support.
Most recovery and performance models rely heavily on conversation, insight, or willpower. NeuroRecovery targets the systems underneath behavior: the nervous system, brain state, physiology, habits, identity, and environment.
Below are areas of growth NeuroRecovery is designed to support. Outcomes vary by individual.
“After four months in a top-tier treatment facility with little progress, one conversation with Dr. Effinger changed everything. Within weeks, we began to see a remarkable shift in Ryan's recovery.”
My son, Ryan, has both a traumatic brain injury and a substance use disorder. He spent four months in treatment at a highly reputable facility, yet showed little sign of progress or hope. At a point of deep frustration, I was introduced to Dr. Devin Effinger through a recovery coach — and after just one conversation, I knew he had the insight and empathy that could truly reach my son.
Dr. Effinger brings an extraordinary combination of clinical expertise, scientific innovation, and lived experience. Having personally navigated recovery after his own traumatic brain injury, he approaches his patients with rare authenticity and understanding.
Within just a few weeks of working with Dr. Effinger, we began to see a remarkable shift in Ryan's recovery. Devin met Ryan exactly where he was — helping him move from a place of anger and victimhood to one of ownership, responsibility, and genuine engagement in his healing. Recognizing that anger was a driving force behind Ryan's behavioral and substance challenges, Dr. Effinger created a customized version of his RISE framework tailored specifically for him. The results have been transformative.
Dr. Effinger's compassion, creativity, and commitment to individualized neuro-recovery have brought renewed hope to our family and lasting change to Ryan's life. I cannot recommend him highly enough to anyone seeking truly effective, neuroscience-based care for brain injury and addiction recovery.
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Low pressure, high clarity. You'll know whether NeuroRecovery is the right fit before any commitment.
We'll talk through what you're navigating, what you've already tried, and whether brain-based work makes sense for you. No commitment. No sales.
If we move forward, we begin with a structured intake plus optional qEEG brain mapping. You'll leave with a clear picture of what your nervous system is actually doing.
A targeted plan combining coaching, RISE curriculum, neurofeedback, and case management, sequenced for your goals, your timeline, and your existing care team.
Practical answers to what most people want to know before scheduling a consultation.
No. NeuroRecovery provides coaching, education, neurofeedback support, and optimization services. We do not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease and do not replace care from licensed medical or mental health professionals. We can, however, collaborate with your existing providers.
A quantitative EEG brain map records patterns of electrical activity across the brain. NeuroRecovery uses brain-map findings to inform individualized neurocoaching and neurofeedback strategies. Brain maps are interpreted as one piece of a broader optimization picture, not as standalone diagnostic tools.
Neurofeedback is a non-invasive brain training process that uses real-time EEG feedback to help the brain learn more regulated patterns of activity. Protocols are customized based on brain-map findings, client goals, and observed response over time.
Individuals in recovery, people with TBI history or cognitive and emotional regulation challenges, executives and high performers under chronic stress, families seeking an organized brain-based support plan, and treatment centers wanting to integrate neurofeedback and curriculum-based coaching.
RISE (Reflect, Interrupt, Shift, Engage) is NeuroRecovery's proprietary curriculum framework designed to train self-awareness, interrupt automatic reactions, regulate the nervous system, and act from values and long-term identity rather than reactivity.
Yes. NeuroRecovery can serve as a coordinating layer between clients, families, treatment centers, physicians, therapists, psychiatrists, sober companions, neurofeedback providers, and other members of a care team.
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