OCEAN BEACH – Neurogen practitioner Shawna Joy Scott has moved her practice from Bay Park to Ocean Beach.
Scott, the owner-operator of neurogenNOW, is the first to offer neurofeedback on the Peninsula at Peak Performance Holistic Therapies, 4732 Point Loma Avenue.
Opened in January 1992, Peak Performance Holistic Therapies was the first therapeutic massage establishment in Ocean Beach/Point Loma. Over time, their holistic services have expanded to include acupuncture, massage, cupping, Chinese herbal medicine, neurofeedback, and vagus nerve stimulation.
When a space became available, Scott knew it was the perfect time and location to move her neurofeedback business there.
A native San Diegan, Scott has lived on the Peninsula for 32-plus years. She is thrilled to live and work in the community, and Peak Performance is the perfect fit for neurogenNOW. Her business specializes in brain optimization and balance through High Performance Neurofeedback technology. The non-invasive method aims to enhance brain function.
The process involves using EEG technology to monitor brain waves together with neural feedback, prompting the brain to create new pathways and promote cerebral balance. Clients with issues such as anxiety, brain fog, focus, depression, memory, migraines, sleep, PTSD, and more have improved significantly under Joy Scott’s guidance.
For Scott, helping her son Koa, a high school student and a straight-A student taking honors courses, recover after being struck in the head by a baseball proved to be her entree into a new profession.
The answer to Koa’s sudden onset of reading and concentration problems turned out to be a neurofeedback treatment that cured him of his constant headaches. It also established a new mission in his mother’s life.
“That (traumatic brain injury) isn’t a one-off,” noted Scott. “Once you have a TBI, then sometimes those post-concussion symptoms come back when you have stress. His (Koa’s) brain had healed to about 80%, though all the testing said he was fine. He was in horrible pain, sleeping all the time because that was the only time he wasn’t in pain.”
“After four months of searching for something to help him, during his particular neurofeedback, 20 minutes in, I saw pain leave his eyes,” said Scott.
She added that she was having a recurring migraine headache while her son was undergoing treatment. So she underwent neurofeedback treatment at the practitioner’s behest.
“In eight minutes, my migraine was gone,” she said.
That was her epiphany. “This technology has to get out to more people,” noted Joy Scott. “I have to do it. I believe in this so much — it has to get out there.”
Over the past five years, Scott has treated people with a variety of symptoms, an endeavor deeply fulfilling to her on numerous levels. “This has just been a journey of passion,” she noted.
“I’ve done close to 2,500 (multiple) appointments (for clients) now, and it’s just amazing the results I’ve seen. Balancing the brain works well for anything that starts in the brain — PTSD, migraines, TBIs, people who’ve had strokes, ADD, ADHD, sleep issues, etc. The brain is pretty amazing. It will adapt and find another way to work as well as it can.”
Scott said most clients come to her to help relieve or remove symptoms of mental ailments. But she added that some just come because they find neurofeedback just helps them sharpen their mental focus.
“It works best on the people who are worst off because they feel it,” said Scott. “It helps. I truly believe that if someone were to continue (treatments), it would help everybody, because I can see their brain waves getting better.”
About Neurogen
The Neurogen Brain Balancing neuromodulation system helps the brain self-regulate and promotes more balanced brainwaves. In 2012, Neurogen founder Gregory L. Gillispie, a retired Marine Corps master gunnery sergeant, volunteered to be patient zero in a brain study utilizing Neurogen’s HPN technology to treat veterans with traumatic brain injuries.
He had been deployed overseas ten times with seven combat deployments. In 2007, Gillispie retired with multiple concussions, blast injuries, a TBI, and severe post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
Five years of traditional medical treatments and countless prescriptions helped little, and he continued struggling with chronic pain and many PTSD symptoms, including debilitating migraines.
Gillispie received ten Neurogen treatments over three weeks, after which his symptoms virtually disappeared. Before and after, brain scans confirmed the effectiveness of the treatments. Inspired by his phenomenal response, he dedicated himself to bringing Neurogen HPN’s life-changing technology to his fellow veterans.
In 2018, Gillispie co-founded Neurogen Brain Balancing to help combat veterans with PTSD.
Over time, success stories quickly spread from the veterans to their families and then out to the larger community. Knowing that anyone with a brain could benefit from Neurogen HPN, sharing it with everyone was his next logical step. Neurogen Brain Balancing serves military and civilians alike.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, go to neurogenNOW.com.
