Phoenix Neurofeedback and Mental Health Center LLC

A Different Approach to Mental Health and Healing

We combine psychotherapy, neuroscience, neurofeedback, and culturally responsive care to help people better understand themselves, regulate their nervous systems, and create meaningful change.

Whether you are struggling with trauma, anxiety, chronic stress, emotional dysregulation, attention difficulties, or simply feel that your nervous system is always “on,” our goal is to help you move toward greater stability, awareness, and well-being.

Regulation is the gateway. Awareness is the path. Transformation is inevitable.

Welcome to Phoenix

Mental health treatment should never feel one-size-fits-all.

At Phoenix, we look beyond symptoms to understand the whole person—including your nervous system, experiences, relationships, environment, identity, and culture.

Our approach combines traditional psychotherapy with innovative brain-based approaches such as neurofeedback.

You do not have to choose between science and human connection.

We believe meaningful treatment can include both.

Therapy Services

Psychotherapy

Individualized counseling to help you understand patterns, manage emotions, strengthen relationships, and create meaningful change.

Culturally Responsive Care

Your culture, identity, family, values, spirituality, and lived experiences are welcomed into the therapeutic process. We speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Cape Verdean Creole fluently.

Trauma-Informed Care

Treatment that recognizes how trauma can affect the mind, body, nervous system, relationships, and sense of safety.

Anxiety & Stress Support

Learn practical ways to understand and regulate worry, hyperarousal, racing thoughts, and chronic stress.

Neurofeedback Therapy & Training

Neurofeedback

A non-invasive form of brain training designed to help the brain practice patterns of regulation and self-regulation.

Professional Neurofeedback Training

Education and consultation for clinicians interested in incorporating neurofeedback into professional practice.

Why Phoenix?

We believe that symptoms often make more sense when we understand what the nervous system has learned to do in order to survive.

Treatment at Phoenix is compassionate, collaborative, culturally aware, trauma-informed, and grounded in both psychology and neuroscience.

You are more than a diagnosis. Your treatment should reflect that.

Meet Djara E. Hampton

FOUNDER | CLINICAL DIRECTOR | NEUROFEEDBACK EDUCATOR

Djara E. Hampton, MSW, LICSW, is the founder of Phoenix Neurofeedback & Mental Health Center, a trauma-informed psychotherapist, neurofeedback specialist, and Authorized BEE Medic Training Partner. She integrates psychotherapy, nervous-system education, and Othmer Method-informed neurofeedback to help clients move from survival toward regulation, awareness, and meaningful transformation. Djara provides culturally responsive care in English, Cape Verdean Creole, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Testimonials

A word from people we’ve helped over the years.

As I was beginning Neuro I was also beginning a daily spiritual practice which included a meditative practice. I found that the Neuro, especially the Alpha-Theta sessions, gave me a level of relaxation that allowed me to enter deeper states of meditation, even within the sessions themselves. They also allowed me to begin to develop the ability to enter these deeper states myself, which has been a profound shift in my practice. Without Neuro I may have gotten there, but it may have taken me longer and much more practice. The quality of my meditations translates to a clarity and an awareness about life that allows me to remain grounded, neutral (or direct my passion in constructive ways), and compassionate.

I came into this just hoping to feel better. If you had asked me, I don't even know if I could explain what better was. I was barely existing when I first started. My main goal with all this was really to want to live again. But what I got was more than I could have ever wished for. I had gone the past five years not seeing or talking to most of my family. I thought I was ok with that. It hadn't been a goal to start seeing them again, but before I knew it I was at Thanksgiving dinner and I was ok. I remember that is when I came in and told her that clearly this was all working. I didn't stress myself out before hand and walk into the day already having planned for every conversation and worst case scenario. Since then, I've been in a lot of contact with family and have gone to every holiday. Not only was I seeing changes, but my mom and family were noticing also. I no longer have to have a plan for every single worst case scenario for every task that involved me leaving the house. Wow, that was exhausting, I started sleeping better.