How long does the treatment take?

The comprehensive treatment protocol takes approximately 10 to 20 hours to complete, but the length of each person’s treatment varies based on their individual needs. Clients whose treatments last longer are often people who have had difficult births or who have experienced significant emotional trauma related to their learning difficulties. Addressing and releasing these traumas adds to the length of treatment.

What happens during treatment?

During the first session, you or your child undergo an initial assessment that provides important data regarding brain function. This data provides benchmarks that will be used to evaluate future changes to brain function. During this first session, I assess the electro-magnetic activity in the brain using a combination of muscle monitoring, acupressure, and a series of simple exercises. This process reveals the specific brain areas--including visual, auditory and vestibular systems--that require treatment. This session takes approximately 60 to 90 minutes.

During the following sessions, I follow a comprehensive protocol to ensure that all areas of the brain are thoroughly evaluated and that full function is established in each compromised area of the brain. The correction technique requires light touch on specific acupressure points, which helps re-establish electro-magnetic integrity within the brain and allows for optimal brain function. Six to eight weeks after the treatment is complete, I recommend that the client return for a post-integration follow-up appointment, which usually lasts one hour.

How quickly will I see results?

Every person responds differently to BIT. Some clients have noted a remarkable change after one session. Other clients have not noticed significant improvement until after the integration is complete. In some cases, the friends, family, and teachers who know the newly integrated person notice the changes first.

In general, young children respond very quickly to treatment. In some cases, results in adults and teenagers may not be as readily apparent. This is often the case because older clients may need to support their therapy with behavior changes, such as improved study habits and a willingness to go back and relearn information that they have studied in the past but not fully absorbed. For example, students who have been studying a foreign language will find that new material is easier to understand and memorize after BIT. However, becoming proficient in the language will require going back to master the building blocks they were taught prior to BIT. Clients who are willing to initiate important behavior changes notice the impact of brain integration more quickly.

As a Brain Integration Specialist, my role is to enable the brain to reach its full potential to learn, which should make the learning process more enjoyable for clients. However, while I offer support and proven strategies for studying and retaining information following brain integration, I cannot make a client embrace school or the learning process. Therefore, external variables such as family and school dynamics can play a role in how quickly and clearly a client exhibits the benefits of BIT.

Are the results of Brain Integration treatment permanent?

The only situations that may cause a person to lose full brain integration are head injuries, seizures, or major emotional trauma. Therefore, in the vast majority of cases, a client only needs to undergo brain integration one time.

Sometimes in the weeks, months, or years following treatment, clients feel as though they are experiencing less than optimal brain function. In these situations, there has usually been a conscious or unconscious emotional trauma that has triggered temporary dis-integration. To remedy this, clients schedule one or more visits and address the emotions surrounding the trauma, thereby restoring optimal brain function.

What makes Brain Integration different from other therapies available today?

According to Susan McCrossin, a founder of the treatment, “most treatments involve medication, giving on-going exercises to do indefinitely, purely removing emotional stress, or changing the format of how material is presented to the student. The work we do actually changes the functioning of the brain."

"We work with the electromagnetic flow of information in the brain and re-wire this flow internally. This specifically addresses approximately 80 different components involved in learning. For example, we can address the lateral hypothalamic nuclei to ensure correct pupillary dilation.
We are changing the brain function from the inside out, not the outside in. This involves making sure that information comes in through the eyes and ears and is directed to the correct location within the brain with the correct timing. When this is established, function is restored.

Part of this treatment may involve ensuring that the right and left sides of the brain are able to process information simultaneously across the corpus callosum that connects them (as many academic functions require both hemispheres to be active at the same time). A typical person with learning difficulties will have very limited communication through their corpus callosum. An individual may therefore have to rely mostly on one hemisphere for all their processing of information. This can create processing delays, failure to create or retrieve memories, frustration, and loss of self-esteem.

In addition to every aspect of the physiological functions involved in learning, we address the emotional subconscious to remove any relevant blocks to learning as well."

Has research documented the benefits of Brain Integration?

Susan McCrossin wrote several papers based off of her research at the University in Melbourne, which involved very sophisticated EEG studies of the brain. She also published a book, Breaking the Learning Barrier: Eradicating ADD, ADHD and Dyslexia, which describes Brain Integration treatment and her research. The book also includes many testimonials.

Dr. Charles Krebs has also conducted research that exhibits the benefits of Brian Integration. He recently published a scientific control group study in collaboration with Haifa University to demonstrate the effectiveness of Brain Integration Treatment in correcting learning disorders.

How are appointments scheduled?

Your sessions can be divided over several weeks, or, for out-of-town patients, can be completed over the course of several days. If a child is under 10 years old and is coming from out of town, I recommend scheduling an hour on and an hour off throughout the day. If your child is under 6 years old, I suggest a series of 30 minutes sessions with breaks throughout the day.