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Dan McDonnell
Clinical Director
Email Dan McDonnel dan@brainfitnessinc.com
Daniel began his training in Mind/Body interactions and biofeedback in 1982 while an undergraduate at Bradley University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology . Dan tells us that he has come to use neurofeedback and mind/body methods motivated by a great desire to use Science and cutting-edge technology to explore and develop the greatest potential of the individual. He garners much satisfaction in assisting clients to improve their quality of life with these techniques.

Dan McDonnell Upon graduating Bradley, Dan then went on to receive training for biofeedback certification co-sponsored by The Biofeedback Society of Illinois and Northwestern University. He developed a biofeedback program using mind/body principles at Westlake Hospital and began independent consulting work. He has worked at the mental health centers of several local Chicago area hospitals.

Currently he is the lead biofeedback and neurofeedback (brainwave biofeedback) clinician at the Mind/Body oriented clinic; Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital's Center for Stress Medicine in Northwest Suburban Barrington, Illinois. As a Behavioral Medicine Therapist there he provides training and education in biofeedback and mind/body methods to his colleagues at the center, and his caseload is comprised of the majority of biofeedback/neurofeedback patients.

He is also a registered nurse and a graduate student in the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner program at Rush University Medical Center where he also works in child and adolescent psychiatry. He attributes his well rounded understanding and integration of the principle of behavioral medicine to his training in psychology/psychiatry (Mind) and Nursing/medicine (Body).

He has obtained Technical certification training by the Zengar Institute in using NeuroCare Pro® in Neurofeedback and uses the C.A.R.E.® approach to functional transformation.He is co-author of a paper titled "Neurofeedback to Increase Remission Rates in Major Depression" presented at the 2003 American Psychiatric Association's National Convention in San Francisco.