About Us
We are a multi-disciplinary group of health care providers specializing in Neuropsychology, Quantitative EEG assessment, Neurofeedback, and Psychotherapy. Together we provide a comprehensive program for brain-based problems for both children and adults based on proper testing and assessment.
In addition to Neuropsychological testing we provide Quantitative EEG Brain Maps and digital analysis of complex brain-based problems. Our office was one of the first in the county to provide Neurofeedback training as early as 1989 and Quantitative EEG analysis in 2001. Together our experienced staff offers support in one office that would normally require services from multiple providers.
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Staff
John Dupler, PhD, BCN
Dr. John Dupler is board certified in EEG Encephalography by the BCIA and has a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has practiced Neurofeedback and QEEG assessment since 1992. As a former educator, he has taught graduate level Biopsychology at Western American University, and in earlier years taught imaging technology at Columbus State College, in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Dupler previously worked at the U.S. Department of Education’s Center for Vocational Education, a research and development think tank, where he was involved in educational research.
In 2002 he was first to successfully adapt Neurofeedback equipment to be remote controlled and monitored over the internet with software he designed. In 2006 he began providing Neurofeedback services in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Dupler travels there frequently to help increase awareness of Neurofeedback in collaboration our sister office in Tokyo.
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Belinda Young, MA, CPC
Belinda Young, MA, CPC, Neurofeedback Specialist – graduated from SDSU with degrees in Communicative Disorders and Computer Science. She spent a number of years working as a Scientist in the Advanced Systems Development Center at Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Corporation and as a contractor to NOSC. While working on her MA in Marriage Family Therapy, she discovered Neurofeedback as a modality which teaches people techniques for recognizing and correcting abnormal neurological levels of function and responses. Currently working toward her Neurofeedback BCIA board certification, she has completed all didactic, mentoring and client training. Belinda is also a Certified Professional Coach.
Belinda has a heart for working in the field of psychology coaching and Neurofeedback and finds it rewarding to improve the quality of any person’s life in any way she can. With a background in the sciences, Belinda’s passion is bringing Neurofeedback to clients as a modality of treatment to help clients train the most important organ of the body, the brain. Her strength lies in her breath of knowledge, combining compassion with humor. Belinda believes in the power of the therapeutic relationship encouraging clients to take the necessary steps to live an authentic life.
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Heather Martens, PhD
Dr. Heather Martens’ expertise is in working with individuals and their families, assessing the neuro-cognitive consequences of brain injury, and developmental disorders, in addition to treating post traumatic stress, anxiety and depression. Dr. Martens helps individuals and their families cope with the cognitive, emotional, physical and behavioral changes associated with brain injury, diagnosis of autism, cerebral palsy, developmental disorders and other medical conditions. In addition to an assessment guided approach, she utilizes evidenced based treatment, including Cognitive-Behavioral, Behavioral, Biofeedback and Mindfulness based therapies. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Martens is a currently a professor at Alliant International University, teaching courses in biological aspects of behavior and fundamentals of psychological testing.
Dr. Martens received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Alliant International University, focused in the area of Health Psychology. Her dissertation research investigated the cognitive and mood effects of anti-hormonal treatment in women with breast cancer. Dr. Martens completed predoctoral training at UCSD Medical Center in San Diego, specifically working with individualsreferred through the chronic pain and palliative care, organ transplant and gastric bybass services. Dr. Martens completed additional training at River Valley Health, including rotations at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital and Stan Cassidy Centre for Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, working with individuals referred for neuropsychological assessment of brain injury diagnosis of autism, cerebral palsy, developmental disorders and issues related to diagnosis and treatment of cancer, and other medical, mental health and substance abuse concerns. Dr. Martens completed her postdoctoral residency at Stan Cassidy Center for Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, serving on both pediatric and adult multidisciplinary teams.
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Kashiwa Maki
Kashiwa Maki is founder of the Internet support portal www.iWANT.co.jp for products for families with special needs children. In 2001 he opened in Tokyo, Japan a satalite treatment center for Neurofeedback treatment in conjunction with our facility in San Diego. He is the former CEO of the Ashoka Japan, a global association of the leading social entrepreneurs, men and women with system-changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. His work in Tokyo is expanding the awareness and availibility of Neurofeedback Training in Japan. In past years he was a executive with Bridgestone Tire Company.
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Denise Hornbeak, MS, LEK
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Denise Hornbeak has been practicing Brain Gym® since 1988. She has been a Natural Vision Trainer working in conjunction with several Optometrists in San Diego County since 1982. She also implements Quantum Reflex Integration and Color Light Laser therapy in her private practice in the form of the QRI Harmonic and the Scalar Wave Laser.
Ms Hornbeak has facilitated In-Services on Brain Gym® at numerous schools from preschool through the graduate level- Cardiff Elementary, Ada Harris, Santa Fe Montessori Schools, Sage Meadow, Capri Elementary, Val Verde School, Mueller Charter School, National University, etc. She has also presented at the North Coastal Consortium for Special Education, the Annual Conference for the National Catholic Educational Association, Trust Birth Conference, the Annual California Regional Vision Therapy Forum, California-Elks Major Project, READ Annual Tutor Conference, the California Association for the Education of Young Children, etc.
She has been the Network Coordinator for San Diego and has facilitated and sponsored keynote Speakers for Brain Gym® International/Educational Kinesiology workshops in San Diego for over 20 years. She teaches the basic BRAIN GYM® 101 course, VisionCircles, Learn through Movement & Play and Optimal Brain Organization on a regular basis to parents, teachers, therapists, and other interested individuals, as well as teenage students. Additionally she offers Brain Gym® for Sports workshops.
Denise has experience with specialty populations such as those with brain injury/trauma, neurological imbalances, learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD, the autism spectrum, developmentally delayed challenges, and visual and auditory impairment. She has taken developmentally delayed, slow learners who are often labeled ‘Lazy’, ‘Dyslexic’, and getting low or failing grades and watched them turn around to being highly motivated outstanding students.