Introduction
The Vancouver Concussion & Neurofeedback Centre (VCNC) is the province’s first private health practice where the assessment and symptom reduction of persistent concussion effects and those of more pronounced brain injury are a central focus. In addition to brain injury, diagnosis and symptom reduction of other conditions is also very much part of the VCNC. These conditions include: attention deficit disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, autistic spectrum disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anger dyscontrol, chronic pain and chronic fatigue.
Here are the specific services we offer:
- Neuropsychological Assessment
- Quantitative EEG (QEEG)
- Neurofeedback Therapy
- Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback
- Sports Concussion Issues
The approach taken is comprehensively holistic and truly leading edge in terms of technology and breadth and depth of very contemporary understanding of principles of illness and healing. As a practice based on state-of-the-art Western science, the approach at the Vancouver Concussion & Neurofeedback Centre emerges as interestingly consistent with the time-tested Eastern understanding of dis-ease and healing.
Dr. Lewkis is a licensed psychologist in the province of British Columbia. He holds Ph.D., M.A., and B.Sc., (Hons) degrees from the University of Toronto. The focus of his training and work is clinical neuropsychology. He received pre and postdoctoral supervision at the Toronto Western Hospital and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship focused in the neurogenetics of fragile X disorder, also in the U. of T. teaching hospital system. Dr. Lewkis is credentialed by: the Council for the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology (U.S.A.); the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (in EEG neurofeedback: BCN); the HeartMath Institute (in heart rate variability biofeedback); and the Kundalini Research Institute (teacher training). He is versed in the therapeutic application of yoga.
He is retained by numerous law firms throughout B.C., offering professional opinion regarding brain injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder and other problems.
He has worked for school boards, hospitals, a provincial government, law firms, and insurance companies. In 2005, he consulted part-time to several departments at St. Paul’s Hospital in downtown Vancouver and for several years he worked as the clinical neuropsychologist in the Adolescent Psychiatry Unit (Pediatrics Department) of Surrey Memorial Hospital.