A CRASH COURSE IN EEG & QEEG: ALL THE THINGS I WISH I’D KNOWN IN THE BEGINNING

Overview

A CRASH COURSE IN EEG AND QEEG:  ALL THE THINGS I WISH I’D KNOWN FROM THE BEGINNING

Presented by Tiff Thompson PhD, MFT, QEEG-D, R.EEG T, BCN

Offered in-person at The Florida Hotel & Conference Center, Orlando, Florida | Remotely via Zoom in the comfort of your home or office

Workshop overview:  This two-day intensive workshop offers a comprehensive and clinician-friendly introduction to EEG and Quantitative EEG (QEEG) — covering the practical foundations, interpretive frameworks, and clinical profiling skills that experienced practitioners wish they’d had from the start. Designed to be accessible to those new to QEEG while enriching for practitioners with existing experience, this course builds from hands-on EEG basics through disordered neurophysiological profiling, giving attendees immediately applicable clinical knowledge.

This intermediate level workshop offers 12 CE credits and is intended for psychologists, mental health clinicians, and healthcare professionals who practice or are interested in biofeedback, neurofeedback, or neurotherapy. Designed to be accessible to those new to EEG/QEEG while providing substantive depth for practitioners with existing experience.

PROGRAM CONTENT LEVEL: Intermediate – content builds upon the learner’s foundational knowledge, familiarity with the literature and/or experience in a content area. Programming at this level includes more depth than at a beginning level program. It could also serve as a refresher course for individuals who have a background in a content area and are interested in learning more contemporary applications.

COURSE UTILITY AND VALIDITY: Interventions discussed in this workshop are empirically supported (see references). Only minimal risks exist for EEG and QEEG methods, which will be addressed during the talk.

Continuing education statement: Psychologists: The Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. AAPB maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

There is no known commercial support for this program.

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations received by the BSF office by July 10, 2026 will be refunded minus a $25 processing fee. No refunds will be granted after July 10, 2026. Cancellations must be made in writing and emailed to info@floridabiofeedback.org.

Presented by:

Tiff Thompson, PhD, MFT, QEEG-D, R.EEG T, BCN

Dr. Thompson is a clinical neuroscientist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 89425), educator, and technologist. She is the CEO of NeuroField Neuro-therapy, Inc. and the School of Neurotherapy, Inc. based in Santa Barbara, California. BCIA Board Certified in Neurotherapy (BCN), Licensed Diplomate in Quantitative Electroencephalography (QEEG-DL), and a Registered EEG Technician (R.EEG.T.), her work bridges clinical practice, education, and emerging technology. Dr. Thompson has trained clinicians worldwide in QEEG analysis, neurofeedback, and Neurostimulation, with a particular focus on translating advances in computational neuroscience into accessible tools for working clinicians. She is a regular presenter at the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB), the International Society for Neuroregulation and Research (ISNR), and regional biofeedback societies, where she teaches QEEG fundamentals, brain-mapping interpretation, and disorder-specific clinical reasoning.

What you'll learn:

This workshop will be a comprehensive and clinician-friendly introduction to EEG and Quantitative EEG (QEEG) — covering the practical foundations, interpretive frameworks, and clinical profiling skills that experienced practitioners wish they’d had from the start.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Describe the history and scientific foundations of EEG and quantitative EEG (QEEG)
• Demonstrate correct EEG acquisition procedures including electrode placement and impedance standards
• Identify normal EEG morphology and developmental norms across the lifespan
• Recognize and differentiate common EEG artifacts
• Interpret EEG frequency band activity
• Apply montage selection to clinical interpretation
• Distinguish arousal and vigilance-related EEG changes and apply them to clinical interpretation

This 12-contact-hour weekend workshop offers clinicians a focused crash course in the foundations and clinical application of electroencephalography (EEG) and quantitative EEG (QEEG). Designed for practitioners new to QEEG as well as experienced clinicians seeking to modernize their interpretive framework, the workshop walks participants from the historical and methodological roots of QEEG through current standards for recording, processing, and interpretation.

Day One covers the history of EEG and QEEG, recording protocols, signal processing fundamentals, identification and removal of artifacts, montages and EEG morphology, and the appearance of normal adult and pediatric EEG, including patterns of vigilance and sleep. Day Two builds on these foundations with brain-map (z-score) interpretation against modern normative databases, followed by disordered profiling — the QEEG patterns most commonly associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety, and depression. The workshop closes by integrating QEEG findings with neurotherapy treatment planning, with case examples drawn from the presenter’s clinical work. Throughout, the curriculum draws on current peer-reviewed literature, including the IFCN consensus on resting-state EEG analysis, current normative-database research, and recent reanalyses of long-standing QEEG biomarkers (e.g., theta/beta ratio in ADHD). Limitations of QEEG — including normative-database generalizability, vigilance effects, and the importance of clinician judgment alongside computed scores — are addressed candidly. The format combines didactic instruction, annotated map walkthroughs, and discussion of clinical cases to support both first exposure and advanced refinement.