This week, I'm excited to welcome Louloua Smadi to the podcast. Louloua Smadi is a board certified neurofeedback practitioner with over six years of experience in the US, UK, France, and Lebanon, she specialises in helping people with special needs and other various brain challenges. Her passion for brain health and neurodiversity stems from her experience with her brother with autism and her own attention difficulties. She hopes to help families living with severe challenges raise the bar on what can be accomplished using brain-behavior therapies.

Questions asked during our conversation:

• How would you describe the principles behind neurofeedback?
• What behavioural issues could signal the need to use neurofeedback?
• What is the arousal and compensatory lens?

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This week, I'm excited to welcome Louloua Smadi to the podcast. Louloua is a board-certified neurofeedback practitioner with over six years of experience in the US, UK, France, and Lebanon. She specializes in helping people with special needs and other various brain challenges. Her passion for brain health and neurodiversity stems from her experience with a brother with autism and her own attention difficulties. She hopes to help families living with severe challenges raise the bar on what could be accomplished using brain behavior therapies. In this episode, we discuss the principles of neurofeedback and learn how we can use the techniques to transform lives. Over to Louloua. Hey guys, this is Stu from 180 Nutrition, and I am delighted to welcome Louloua Smadi to the podcast. Louloua or Lulu, as I think you're also commonly known, how are you? Good day. You're in Paris. Good day from Australia. Welcome to the podcast.

Louloua

Thank you.

Stu

(01:56)

So super excited about connecting with you today and loads to talk to you about in your specialist field, but first up, for all of our listeners that may not be familiar with you or your work, I'd love it if you could just tell us a little bit about yourself, please.

Louloua

(02:11): Yeah. So I'm a practitioner in neurofeedback therapy and play therapy, currently in training. I am 28 years old. I have a son and a husband living between France and Lebanon. And basically, my story is that I have a brother with autism or four children, and he's completely shaped our lives. And one of the therapists who really helped him, her name is Dr. Lynette Louise. And she's the one who introduced us to neurofeedback and healing as a whole. And I just decided to follow her footsteps and get into this field. And I just published a book about this whole story. It's called From client to Clinician. And yeah, I work with primarily children with special needs. So any neurodiverse and brain challenges [crosstalk 00:03:04].

For full transcript and interview:

https://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/loulous-smadi-interview