What is Biofeedback?

Biofeedback creates a powerful, positive, permanent impact on your emotional and physical well-being. You learn how to alter your brain activity, blood pressure, muscle tension, heart rate/rhythm, and breath patterns to direct your body into self healing and expanded awareness. You reduce stress and perform better in every area of your life and your gains are cumulative. Once you know you know. See how the rhythmic changes in your heartbeat reflect your emotions and learn how to synchronize your nervous system and experience a happy, healthier you. You will achieve improved mental and physical performance as well as increased relaxation and energy.

Tina uses 'state of the art' Biofeedback technology which easily connects to your physiology (heart rhythm, respiration, etc.) and displays it on a computer screen in an easy to understand format. This allows you to see how your body is responding to your physical, emotional, and mental habits. The computer screen mirrors for you that which is happening below your skin. During your sessions you will learn how you can direct your usually unconscious physiology, into health creating and enhancing habits through conscious awareness of what's happening inside your body. Tina says: "I chose the best equipment available to make your sessions fun, interesting, and informative including the highly acclaimed 'HeartMath' and 'Wild Divine' programs.

Clinical studies & my clients have discovered Biofeedback has proven helpful for
•Chronic pain & discomfort
feel better and more at ease
•Tension and/or migraine headaches
relief without medication
•Stomach & gut problems
eliminate pain & create healthy digestion/elimination
•Anxiety & tension
feel more relaxed and in control
•Weight issues
internal physiology supports the attainment of ideal weight
•Elevated blood pressure
lower risk of stroke as pressure normalizes
•Heart arrhythmia's & tachcardia
relax and return even rhythm to heart pattern
•Stress reduction & management
learn how to redirect stress & create internal calm within minutes

"For the past four years I have experienced chronic migraines and pain in my neck and shoulders resulting from injuries and job related stress. The Biofeedback treatments which I recieved from Tina provided relief from pain far exceeding my expectations."
- Carol Dixon, Ph.D. Assistant Dean Graduate School of Education, U.C.S.B.

"Yes, it works. My blood pressure was dangerously high and it's fine now."
- Jessica Fox-Tenney, Santa Barbara

"I'm feeling better all the time. It's like magic what you do."
- Jean, Chronic depression client

"Thank you for your expertise and healing ways. You've added a wonderful dimension to our program and a priceless skill for our patients."
- Dr. Rynda Norsell, Ph.D., Director of The Auburn Pain and Rehabilitation Medical Clinic

Tina Lerner graduated from Michigan State University in 1973 with 'High Honors' and a B.A. in Psychology. The fall of that same year she moved to Santa Barbara. She taught yoga and worked as a chiropractic assistant. The more she explored the body/emotion/mind/spirit connection to health and the experience of well-being the more she followed her path of study, which led her to graduate studies in anatomy and physiology and on to the Biofeedback Institute in Seattle, Washington. There, in 1989, she met Dr. Jeffrey Cram, a 30 year pioneer in the field of Biofeedback and Behavioral Medicine. Together they created and opened the Sierra Health Institute in 1990 in Nevada City, California. While Sierra Health Institute grew in clientele and prestige,Tina returned to school completing a Masters Degree program in Applied Psychology from the University of Santa Monica in 1995. She was then registered, with the State Of California, as a certified "Psychological Assistant" and was able to discover and further her talents, adding to them a natural gift in counseling, which enhanced her Biofeedback work and its' effectiveness.

Over the years that followed she continued to expand her base of knowledge by taking workshops in 'Brain Gym' and 'Feldenkrais', and she again returned to formal education in the fall of 1999 and completed a Master's program in Spiritual Science in June of 2001.

In July of 2004, Tina returned to Santa Barbara after 15 years of experience at Sierra Health Institute and other professional settings, an accomplished Biofeedback Specialist, having completed over five thousand sessions where she assisted her clients to become more relaxed, happier, and healthier in their personal and professional lives. She brings a gentle, non-judgemental, loving approach to her work.

Tina says: "My goal is to enrich your health and your experience of yourself by demonstrating to you how incredible and powerful you already are."

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The HeartMath™ System by Tina