Welcome to Brain Clinics Australia

At Brain Clinics in Adelaide we offer drug-free treatment using neurotherapy and psychology to help relieve symptoms for children, adolescents and adults with conditions such as :-

• Attention and arousal disorders
• ADHD (hyperactive and/or inattentive)
• Anxiety and Panic attacks
• Back pain
• Sleep difficulties
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Children’s behavioural difficulties
• Depression and related mood disorders
• Learning disorders
• Traumatic stress and PTSD

At Brain Clinics we employ evidenced based principles to treat psychological problems. We are also one of the few psychology practices in Australia able to assess brain function prior to deciding on appropriate treatment.

Our methods are also effective for peak performance training.  The clinic will shortly be extending its reach so it can help aspiring athletes and executives achieve optimum performance in their endeavors – by optimising the capacity for superior attentional focus and by shaping positive emotional response to situational stress.  This is a rapidly developing field, so watch this space!

News items

December 8, 2017:  Richard Clark will be presenting with other members of the Brain Injury SA team to introduce Rewire, the cutting-edge therapy program that gets people living with brain injury achieving their goals faster.  Professor Clark will be describing the use of neurotherapy in the program and its synergistic use with psychotherapy in the process of rehabilitation.  See flier below:

April 3 2017:  Richard Clark has been invited to provide an education session to the State-wide Brain Injury Community and Home team of S.A. Health. He will talk on neurotherapy and how it can contribute to the understanding and treatment of brain injury.

March 20 2017:  Richard Clark was invited to speak at Scots College in Sydney on the use of neurofeedback  for optimal performance training.  The session was attended by elite sports students from the school, a contingent ion teachers and coaching staff from the South Sydney Rabitohs that have been trialling neurofeedback.

March 14 2017: Richard Clark has been invited to speak in Sydney at the NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS – http://www.startts.org.au/) on the impact of trauma on childhood development.  He will review how trauma impacts on brain development and examine the implications of such trauma on the education and social prowess of refugee children.

November 2, 2016: See details of a new book by the renowned Professor Juri Kropotov on neuromarkers and neurotherapy and the implications for treatment of psychiatric and psychological disorders.  Professors Kropotov and Clark recently collaborated on the application of methods for examining the brain correlates of dyslexia, using tools developed in Russia by Professor Kropotov.

November 1, 2016: Richard Clark, the Clinic Director of Brain Clinics Australia, spoke in Sydney at the 2016 conference of the Applied Neuroscience Society of Australia (ANSA), where he presented a keynote entitled ‘A neuropsychological approach to the treatment of PTSD‘. The talk reviewed the psychobiology of PTSD and outlined how the use of quantitative EEG, neuropsychological assessment, neurotherapy and psychotherapy can be combined in the important effort to help those with the physiological and psychological effects of severe emotional trauma.  The talk is to be made available on Psyche Visual, where a number of his earlier talks can also be seen.

October 2016: Dr. Richard Clark talks about neurotherapy at Assuming Control 2016, a seminar series held by Brain Injury SA together with presenting partner Lifetime Support Authority, a government initiative that provides treatment, care and support for people who have sustained serious, lifelong disabilities in a motor vehicle accident in South Australia through the Lifetime Support Scheme (LSS).  This talk showed how neurotherapy fits, as an often essential component, into the treatment mix for difficulties with brain and mental functioning, along with medication, psychotherapy, counselling and psychoeducation. Dr Clark reviewed the principles of neurotherapy, outlining how it works through direct action on the brain based on the principles of neuroplasticity.

2016: Dr. Bessel A. van der Kolk discusses the benefits of neurofeedback in helping ‘rewire’ the brain following trauma.  He affirms the breakthrough results achieved in the treatment of trauma, abuse and neglect with neurofeedback. This video will help you learn what neurofeedback is, how it’s studied, and gives examples of the remarkable results that can be obtained.  He also appeals for governments to make neurofeedback available through health insurance mechanisms.

Watch the video – Faces of neurofeedback – selected clinical perspectives