Microcurrent Neurofeedback (MCN)
Gentle brain-based support to help your mind and body settle, so mindfulness and therapy can go deeper.
Microcurrent Neurofeedback (MCN) is a non-invasive, brain-based treatment that uses extremely low levels of electrical current to help your nervous system relax and reorganize. It’s offered in-person at Austin Mindfulness Center as a 50-minute appointment, similar in length and feel to a standard therapy session.
If you feel stuck in talk therapy, overactivated by stress, or trapped in long-standing patterns, MCN may help your brain access the calm, flexible state where mindfulness and therapy can actually land.
What Is Microcurrent Neurofeedback (MCN)?
Microcurrent Neurofeedback (MCN) is a form of neurofeedback that delivers very low-power electrical signals (measured in trillionths of a watt) through sensors placed on the scalp. These signals briefly “nudge” brainwave patterns, allowing the brain to move out of stuck, dysregulated states and into a more balanced, flexible mode. 
Unlike traditional neurofeedback, which trains the brain to move toward specific patterns over many weeks, MCN works more like a reset: brief micro-stimulation followed by the brain doing its own reorganization—similar to rebooting a frozen computer. 
MCN devices are FDA-registered for relaxation training and muscle re-education. Most counseling practices, including AMC, use MCN as a supportive tool to help with stress regulation and to complement ongoing mental health treatment—not as a stand-alone medical cure.
How MCN Connects with Mindfulness
At Austin Mindfulness Center, our work is grounded in mindfulness: learning to notice your inner experience with clarity, kindness, and less reactivity.
For some people, the problem is not a lack of insight—it’s that the nervous system is constantly in fight/flight/freeze. When your brain is stuck in high alert, mindfulness can feel almost impossible: you sit down to breathe, and your body feels like it’s hitting the gas pedal anyway.
MCN can help by:
Reducing baseline nervous system arousal, so it’s easier to sit, notice, and stay with your experience.
Supporting better sleep and mental clarity, which makes mindfulness practice more sustainable.
Creating conditions where therapy sessions are less about “putting out fires” and more about deeper healing and growth.
We don’t see MCN as a replacement for mindfulness—it’s a way of helping your brain access the state where mindfulness skills can finally take root.
What our clients are saying about us
The breathing technique, being gentle to myself, and learning to recognize when I am not living in the present moment, among other coping skills my therapist has been teaching me have helped me tremendously with anxiety. She is easy to talk to, gentle, and listens without judgement. I am so thankful I found her and recommend her to everyone.
