Utilizing neuroscience to optimize the brain and improve outcomes.

Working with individuals ranging from high achievers looking to optimize performance all the way to individuals seeking recovery from addiction or traumatic brain injury.

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What We Offer

Neuroscience-Informed Recovery & Mental Health Support

Core mission: translating brain science into real-world healing

NeuroRecovery provides neuroscience-grounded strategies for individuals navigating traumatic brain injury, substance use disorder, trauma, depression, anxiety, and emotional dysregulation. Rather than symptom-only approaches, NeuroRecovery focuses on underlying neural circuitry—including stress systems, reward processing, emotional regulation, and habit loops.

Services emphasize:

  • Understanding how the brain becomes “stuck” in maladaptive patterns

  • Identifying triggers rooted in limbic and stress circuitry

  • Teaching deliberate, prefrontal-driven strategies to interrupt automatic responses

  • Supporting long-term neural and behavioral change

This work is informed by both cutting-edge neuroscience and lived experience within recovery environments.

Treatment Navigation, Intervention & Care Coordination

Bridging families, providers, and systems

Drawing from extensive experience working in jails, treatment centers, and nonprofit recovery settings, NeuroRecovery assists with:

  • Identifying appropriate detox and residential treatment options

  • Coordinating admissions and transitions of care

  • Supporting families during high-stress decision points

  • Acting as a neuroscience-informed advocate during crises

This work prioritizes ethical guidance, system navigation, and stabilization, especially when individuals are overwhelmed or dysregulated.

Education & Training for Organizations

Making neuroscience actionable for clinicians and systems

NeuroRecovery delivers education and consulting to:

  • Treatment centers

  • Clinicians and therapists

  • Recovery organizations

  • Corporate wellness and performance programs

Topics include:

  • The neuroscience of addiction, trauma, and stress

  • Prefrontal engagement and emotional regulation

  • Why willpower fails and what works instead

  • Integrating neurofeedback and emerging therapies responsibly

Content is designed to be practical, grounded, and immediately usable, not academic abstraction.

Performance, Resilience & Brain Optimization

For high-functioning individuals under chronic stress

Beyond recovery, NeuroRecovery supports executives, clinicians, and high-performers experiencing:

  • Burnout and emotional exhaustion

  • Cognitive overload

  • Stress-induced performance decline

Using neuroscience-based strategies, EEG insights, and behavioral frameworks, this work focuses on:

  • Stress resilience

  • Cognitive clarity

  • Emotional regulation under pressure

  • Sustainable peak performance

Neurofeedback

“My son, Ryan, has both a traumatic brain injury and a substance use disorder. He spent four months in treatment at a highly reputable facility, yet showed little sign of progress or hope. At a point of deep frustration, I was introduced to Dr. Devin Effinger through a recovery coach—and after just one conversation, I knew he had the insight and empathy that could truly reach my son.

Dr. Effinger brings an extraordinary combination of clinical expertise, scientific innovation, and lived experience. Having personally navigated recovery after his own traumatic brain injury, he approaches his patients with rare authenticity and understanding.

Within just a few weeks of working with Dr. Effinger, we began to see a remarkable shift in Ryan’s recovery. Devin met Ryan exactly where he was—helping him move from a place of anger and victimhood to one of ownership, responsibility, and genuine engagement in his healing. Recognizing that anger was a driving force behind Ryan’s behavioral and substance challenges, Dr. Effinger created a customized version of his RISE framework tailored specifically for him. The results have been transformative.

Dr. Effinger’s compassion, creativity, and commitment to individualized neuro-recovery have brought renewed hope to our family and lasting change to Ryan’s life. I cannot recommend him highly enough to anyone seeking truly effective, neuroscience-based care for brain injury and addiction recovery.”

— Katie Heil