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Mindfulness is hard to teach when clients can't tell if it's working.
For many clients — especially neurodivergent clients — traditional mindfulness and meditation are frustrating. The most common question Dr. Steele-Wren's team heard was whether clients were even doing it right. That uncertainty made it harder to build the calm, regulated state that effective talk therapy depends on. And for some clients, the discomfort of therapy itself was enough to keep them from returning after an intake session.
“They often ask, am I doing this right? But Healium really takes that out of the equation and they can see in real-time through biofeedback if it's working or not."
Dr. Stephanie Steele-Wren
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PsychologyWorks built Healium into the rhythm of each session.
No new protocol to learn, no added burden on clinicians. The team uses Healium wherever a client needs to find steadier ground — at the start of a session so clients can settle in and fully participate in talk therapy, or at the end of a difficult session, such as after trauma processing, so clients don't leave dysregulated.
“It has been so easy to integrate it into our clients' sessions, whether we use it to help clients regulate at the beginning of sessions... or if we use it at the end after a really tough session."
Dr. Stephanie Steele-Wren
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Clients are calmer — and they're coming back.
The change is visible. After a Healium session, Dr. Steele-Wren's team can see it in clients' faces and bodies — a clear, physical shift toward relaxation. And something the practice didn't expect: clients who might not have returned after an intake session have come back, specifically because they wanted to use Healium again.
“Seeing how much calmer clients are after doing a Healium simulation is just really what stands out to my team and I. You can just see it in their face and body how much more relaxed they are.”
Dr. Stephanie Steele-Wren
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