A gentler approach to anxiety, focus, and sleep for your whole family.
NeurOptimal neurofeedback is a non-invasive, drug-free technology that supports your brain’s ability to self-regulate. Delivered to your home in the Portland metro as a monthly program designed around consistent use.
Reserve Your MonthIf you’re looking for a non-medication path, or a complement to one you’re already on.
Maybe your child is struggling with attention or emotional regulation and you want to try something before filling a prescription. Maybe you’re already on a medication that helps and you’re looking for something to work alongside it. Maybe you’ve been dealing with stress or sleep disruption for long enough that you’re ready to try a different kind of approach entirely.
NeurOptimal neurofeedback is a wellness-focused tool for nervous system regulation. It doesn’t diagnose, treat, or push the brain in any particular direction. It gives your brain real-time feedback and lets it do what brains are built to do: adapt, self-correct, and find balance on their own terms.
People come to it for all kinds of reasons. A child who can’t settle at school. A parent carrying the day’s stress into every evening. A teenager whose sleep has gone sideways. A household where everyone could use a little more ease. The common thread is wanting something gentle and non-invasive that the whole family can use.
You’ve probably tried a few things already.
The meditation app lasted two weeks. The magnesium helped a little. You spent six months driving your kid to a practitioner twice a week, and it helped. But the schedule was brutal and the cost added up fast.
Here’s what most neurofeedback options look like: practitioner visits at $100–150 per session on a fixed weekly schedule. Buying a system outright for $11,000, with no structure or support around actually using it. Or a rental company that ships you a hard case and hopes for the best.
The technology works in all of these scenarios. But by week three, the system is sitting on a shelf. You meant to do five sessions this week. You did one. And the gap between having the equipment and actually using it consistently is where most people’s results quietly fall apart.
A neurofeedback program built around whether you actually use it.
Every other NeurOptimal rental is structured around access to equipment. This one is structured around usage.
NeurOptimal responds best to regular, repeated sessions. Four or five per week is the range most practitioners recommend. Most people don’t sustain that cadence without something designed to keep them on track. Cadence Northwest is built around that reality.
Your system arrives in a canvas kit with everything organized and ready: the NeurOptimal tablet, sensors, sensor gel, earbuds, a session journal card for tracking your month, and a ritual guide that walks you through your first session in plain language. No medical manuals. No guesswork.
Use it whenever you want, as many times as you want. Everyone in your household is welcome to use the system. Adults, kids, whoever would benefit. And when your household hits 20 sessions in a month, your next month costs $75 less.
That’s the consistency bonus. It’s a built-in reason to keep going when week three hits and the couch starts competing with the session chair.
For families with kids using the system
We have an optional kid kit available on request: a nature and mandala coloring book, quality colored pencils to keep hands busy during the 33-minute session, and a sticker-based adventure map for tracking progress.
Kids tend to start refusing sessions around day five, once the novelty fades. Something engaging to do during the session keeps the routine going. Mention it when you book and we’ll include it.
How NeurOptimal works
NeurOptimal is a neurofeedback system that reads your brain’s electrical activity through small sensors placed on your scalp and ears, then plays music that shifts subtly in response to what your brain is doing. Over the course of a 33-minute session, your brain receives continuous feedback about its own patterns and begins to self-correct.
There’s no diagnosis, no stimulation, and no one deciding what your brain should do. NeurOptimal is designed to support nervous system flexibility and resilience. It gives the brain information and lets it adapt naturally, which is why it’s safe for the whole household and why no clinical training is needed to use it at home.
What people tend to notice first is a shift in sleep quality. Falling asleep more easily, staying asleep longer, waking up feeling more rested. With continued use, improvements in focus, emotional regulation, stress response, and overall mood are commonly reported. The pattern is consistent: the more regularly you use it, the more clearly the effects show up.
NeurOptimal is used in homes, therapy practices, schools, and wellness clinics worldwide. It was developed by Zengar Institute and has been refined over two decades.
How it works
Reserve your month
Fill out a short form with your preferred start date. We’ll confirm availability within 24 hours, answer your questions, and send over the rental agreement.
We deliver your kit
Everything arrives at your door, organized and ready. We’ll walk through what’s inside at handoff so you’re comfortable before your first session.
Use it as a family
Unlimited sessions for everyone in your household, all month. Track your progress on the journal card. Hit 20 sessions and your next month drops $75.
Pricing
First month
$950
Unlimited sessions for your whole household. Delivered and picked up at your door in the Portland-Vancouver metro.
Month to month
$875
/month after first
Cancel anytime with 7 days’ notice before your next billing date. No contracts.
The Consistency Bonus
Complete 20 sessions in a rental month and your next month drops to $800, applied automatically. Two or more family members each completing 10 sessions qualifies the same way. Verified from the session log on the tablet at pickup.
All sales are final for the current month. You’re never locked in beyond what you’ve already paid for.
What a month looks like
Your kid asks to do their session before dinner because the coloring book is waiting. You notice you’re sleeping more soundly by the end of week one and aren’t entirely sure why until you count the tally marks on the journal card. By week three, your partner says you seem less wound up in the evenings.
The journal card on the counter has 22 entries. You’re thinking about month two. Nobody had to drive anywhere. Nobody sat in a waiting room. It just fit.
About Cadence Northwest
Cadence Northwest is a wellness brand for Pacific Northwest families. The Home Brain Training Program is our first offering.
We’ve used NeurOptimal ourselves and believe in it enough to own a system. Now we make it available to Portland-area families through a program designed around the thing that actually determines whether neurofeedback works: whether you use it consistently enough to give your brain a real chance to respond.
Common questions
Quiet. You sit somewhere comfortable, apply three small sensors (two on your scalp, one on each ear), put in earbuds, and close your eyes. The system plays music for 33 minutes. You’ll hear tiny pauses and skips in the music as NeurOptimal responds to your brain’s activity. That’s the neurofeedback happening. Most people find it deeply relaxing. Some fall asleep, and that’s fine.
Yes. NeurOptimal is non-invasive and doesn’t push the brain in any direction. It gives the brain information and lets it self-correct. There’s no diagnosis, no stimulation, and no practitioner deciding what your child’s brain should do. Kids as young as five use it comfortably.
Yes. Many families use NeurOptimal as a complement to whatever they’re already doing: therapy, medication, other wellness practices. It doesn’t interfere with any of those. Some people find that over time, with the support of their healthcare provider, they’re able to adjust other parts of their care. That’s a conversation to have with your doctor, not something we’d ever advise on.
NeurOptimal is designed to support the brain’s ability to self-regulate, which can show up differently for different people. Commonly reported improvements include better sleep, reduced anxiety, improved focus and attention, more stable mood, and a greater sense of overall ease. It’s used by families, professionals, athletes, and people simply looking to feel more like themselves.
Four to five per week is the range most practitioners recommend. That’s roughly 20 in a month, which is why the consistency bonus is set at that number. Some families do a session a day. Some do every other day. More consistent use generally means clearer results.
None. The system is designed for home use. Your kit includes a step-by-step guide covering setup and your first session. Most people feel comfortable after two or three runs through it.
Sleep changes tend to come first, often within the first week or two. Focus, emotional regulation, and stress resilience usually follow with continued sessions. Everyone’s timeline is different, and some shifts are subtle enough that other people notice before you do.
Throughout the Portland-Vancouver metro, including Lake Oswego, West Linn, Beaverton, Tigard, Sherwood, Tualatin, Portland, Vancouver, Camas, and surrounding communities.
Practitioners typically offer one or two sessions per week at their office, at $100–150 per session. That works, but it means a fixed schedule and per-visit pricing. A home program gives you unlimited sessions on your own schedule at a flat monthly rate. Some families use both: a practitioner for guidance and a home system for the daily consistency that drives deeper results.
Reach out and we’ll troubleshoot or swap the system. The hardware is reliable, and we test everything between rentals.
No refunds for partial months. The program is month to month with no contracts, so you’re never locked in beyond what you’ve already paid for.
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We’ll confirm availability, answer your questions, and walk you through everything before you commit to anything.
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