BCIA HRV Biofeedback Certification for Smart People
A concise guide for earning BCIA Biofeedback Certification
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BioSource Faculty
- May 12
- 7 min
Drug Effects on Heart Rate Variability
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(1)Reviewing a list of the medications and social drugs your client is currently taking is essential. They can individually and...
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BioSource Faculty
- Apr 27
- 7 min
Breathing Basics - Part 2: Assessment
Breathing assessment should always precede HRV biofeedback because dysfunctional breathing can frustrate training success. Clinicians may...
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BioSource Faculty
- Apr 10
- 33 min
Neuroscience Breakthroughs Since Graduate School - Part 6: Emotion
Neuroscience research in the last decades has fundamentally changed our understanding of emotion. Bottom-up and top-down pathways...
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BioSource Faculty
- Apr 8
- 2 min
BCIA Recertification for Smart People
BCIA requires certificants to complete 48 hours of accredited continuing education (30 hours for Senior Fellows) every 4 years that their...
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BioSource Faculty
- Apr 2
- 6 min
Strategies for Entering the Field
You are a licensed healthcare provider or optimal performance coach who wants to add biofeedback to your practice but are overwhelmed by...
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BioSource Faculty
- Mar 24
- 6 min
Breathing Basics - Part 1: Anatomy and Physiology
Breathing ensures healthy CO2 levels. The main functions of breathing are gas exchange and acid-base (pH) regulation. The respiratory...
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BioSource Faculty
- Mar 19
- 18 min
Neuroscience Breakthroughs Since Graduate School - Part 6: Stress
Recent studies have challenged core stress concepts taught in graduate classes. We cannot turn off our physiological reactions to...
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BioSource Faculty
- Mar 12
- 5 min
Four Heart Rate Variability Myths
Four HRV myths are Heart Rate Variability Is Bad, Stability Is Good, The Sympathetic Nervous System Plays a Major Role in Short-Term HRV,...
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Fred Shaffer
- Feb 24
- 7 min
Dr. Moss on Mentoring, Supervision, and Consultation
BCIA requires mentoring as an educational process for individuals seeking BCIA certification. BCIA requires clinical supervision for...
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BioSource Faculty
- Jan 24
- 7 min
Zachary Meehan on Childhood Trauma
Events are traumatic when they involve harm or threat of harm to oneself or others (McLaughlin et al., 2014). Childhood trauma is a...
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BioSource Faculty
- Dec 28, 2022
- 19 min
Neuroscience Breakthroughs Since Graduate School - Part 5: Depression
Since major depressive disorder (MDD) is a heterogeneous disorder, researchers study its diverse phenotypes. Heritability ranges from 26%...
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BioSource Faculty
- Dec 12, 2022
- 8 min
Rethinking the Resonance Frequency (RF) - Part 3: Slow-Paced Contraction
Slow-paced contraction (SPC) provides an alternative and unproven method for determining the resonance frequency (RF) in one or two...
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BioSource Faculty
- Dec 7, 2022
- 15 min
Neuroscience Breakthroughs Since Graduate School - Part 2: Addiction
Addiction inevitably involves loss, including executive functions, health, pleasure from everyday life, productivity, and often...
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BioSource Faculty
- Nov 25, 2022
- 13 min
Neuroscience Breakthroughs Since Graduate School - Part 1: Sleep
Behavioral neuroscience discoveries have proceeded at a rapid pace. This series highlights cutting-edge findings and explains their...
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BioSource Faculty
- Nov 23, 2022
- 8 min
Rethinking the Resonance Frequency (RF) - Part 1: Understanding Resonance
Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated the efficacy of HRV biofeedback for diverse clinical disorders like depression, diabetes,...
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BioSource Faculty
- Nov 15, 2022
- 15 min
A Guide to Selecting HRV Norms
Measurement context and client characteristics are crucial to interpreting HRV time- and frequency-domain measurements. In this post, we...
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BioSource Faculty
- Oct 22, 2022
- 13 min
HRV Time-Domain Measurements for Smart People
HRV Time-Domain Measurements for Smart People describes these measurements, caveats, and practical applications.
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Fred Shaffer
- Aug 1, 2022
- 2 min
How Do You Know When HRV Training is Succeeding?
During slow-paced breathing between 4.6 to 6.5 bpm, you can examine your client's raw heart rate (HR) and respiration waveforms,...
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Fred Shaffer
- Jul 31, 2022
- 6 min