Welcome to our web site.

This is the place to learn how to do biofeedback and applied psychophysiology.

The Behavioral Medicine Research and Training Foundation offers distance education courses, books, distance based individual mentoring, patient consultation, treatment packages, research design support, and many other services to clinicians, coaches, and educators who want to incorporate biofeedback and applied psychophysiology into their practices. We provide biofeedback training to professionals from all over the world because all of our personal services are available through the world wide web.

To find out more about biofeedback and applied psychophysiology,
press here.

To find out what basic training you need to perform biofeedback effectively, press here.

Quality Assurance: When you take a CE course, how do you know that its content is any good?

Don’t take the instructor’s or organization’s word that the course is good!

Look for independent evaluation of the program, courses, and instructors.

              The program: The Foundation’s program has been evaluated for quality by national and state level organizations such as the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) and California’s Boards of Behavioral Sciences and Psychology.

              The courses: Most of the Foundation’s courses have been evaluated for content and quality of presentation by national and state level organizations such as the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America (BCIA), California’s Board of  Psychology, NBCC, and the California Physical Therapy Association.

              The instructors: The Foundation’s instructors are recognized as highly competent by their academic and clinical peers who promoted them academically, selected them for competitive grants (from NIH, the VA, the military, and private organizations), and accepted their publications in high quality, peer reviewed  journals.

Our continuing education courses include General Biofeedback, Neurofeedback (EEG biofeedback), Anatomy and Physiology for Behavioral Clinicians, Pain Assessment and Intervention, Behavioral Interventions for Pelvic Floor Disorders, Hypnosis, Neuromuscular Rehabilitation, Neuropsychophysiology, and Research Techniques for Clinicians. The courses are listed on the side bar to the left of this note. For details about each course, you can click on any course in the list or on the "courses" button.

When you purchase courses from the Foundation, you get personal attention from our instructors each of whom have decades of experience in psychophysiology. They can help you with decisions on which equipment to purchase, guide you through psychophysiological portions of interventions with complex patients, etc.

Our courses can be started at your convenience and you progress at your own rate. You will interact with your instructors by e-mail at each stage in the course and learning process.

All of the Foundation’s courses are approved for continuing education credit by numerous organizations including California's boards of psychology and behavioral sciences. For details, click the "CE credit" link in the light blue colunm to the left.

BCIA Certification: The Foundation's courses are approved for credit toward certification and recertification in biofeedback and neurofeedback by the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America (BCIA). For details see each course or click the "CE credit" link in the light blue colunm to the left.

For information about scholarships, please press the button labeled "Courses” in the light blue column to the left.

The Foundation provides consultation to clinicians on performing psychophysiologically based assessments and interventions. Our team of highly experienced experts can guide you to incorporating psychophysiological techniques into your practice and help you handle the most difficult patients. We also provide consultation to clinicians and students on research design and performance in psychophysiology. For details, follow the consultation link at the left side of the page. We’ll even loan you equipment to help get your research going (press the equipment loan button).

For information about in-person or distance based hands-on training in biofeedback and supervision, click on the “Mentoring”, "hands-on", "individual experience", or "basic instrumentation" buttons. We can conduct mentoring and training for people anywhere in the world because we use programs which show us what trainees’ computers are doing as they conduct assessments and interventions and can listen to the session through voice over internet protocols such as SKYPE.

We also sell books related to our courses. For information about our books – such as Pain Assessment and Intervention from a Psychophysiological Perspective, just press the "books to buy" button.

The Foundation hosts telephone conferences in which key experts gather to discuss crucial issues in psychophysiology. If you would like to suggest and / or chair such a conference, press here.

The professional organization which supports applied psychophysiology and biofeedback is the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. To find out more about the field, evidence supporting efficacy of biofeedback interventions, etc. press here.

Clinicians offering biofeedback based interventions should be certified to show they have met minimal biofeedback training standards. This certification is offered by the Biofeedback Certification Institute of American (BCIA). Press here for information about BCIA.

The Foundation was established in January, 2000 as a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of research and education in clinical behavioral medicine. You can find out more about the Foundation by pressing the "About Us" button.

We would be very glad to hear from you and answer any questions you may have about our program.