About Raquel Younglove & Breakthrough Neurofeedback

For nearly 20 years, I was also involved in rescuing and rehabilitating wolves and wolfdogs. These animals live almost entirely through their nervous systems, hyper aware of threat, survival, and safety. Meeting each wolf where it was, often in situations where my own safety was not guaranteed, taught me something that later became central to my work with people: a nervous system cannot change until it first feels safe.

In many ways, those years were an unexpected preparation for the work I now do with human nervous systems.

My own life has been a testing ground too. I have spent more than 30 years as an entrepreneur, trained and lived as an athlete who values discipline and resilience, and walked through real-life stress, trauma, and recovery. A serious car accident and failed back surgery in my teens and early twenties forced me to reassess my entire life and make drastic life adjustments. Later came the miracle of a child I had been told I should never have due to the risk of being paralyzed, along with a traumatic marriage, divorce, and more than 16 years of being a single mom. My son arrived early and faced his own challenges, and he began neurofeedback at age 3. All of this required me to use these tools to create stability for myself and my son, not just for clients.

Using the same brain-based tools and habits we now offer here, I watched my preemie son move from early challenges into a young man who tested out of high school at 15, is on track to finish high school with an Associate’s Degree and multiple certifications and now helps run systems behind the scenes at Breakthrough.

I do not recommend anything I have not used, tested, and refined on myself, my family, or my own nervous system.

So when you share your story with me, you are talking to someone who has walked through years of uncertainty and come out the other side with tools that can shorten that path for you.

So rather than being fit into a system, the system is fit around you: your brain, your season of life, and the outcomes you care about most.

Professional Background

‍Over the past two decades, I have trained across multiple neurofeedback systems and approaches, including both protocol-based linear neurofeedback and whole-brain dynamical training models.

Over the course of my career I held advanced practitioner and instructor roles within leading neurofeedback systems before intentionally transitioning to a multi-system, tool-agnostic approach focused on matching the method to the individual brain.

Today my work integrates multiple brain-training technologies and supporting modalities to create individualized brain optimization plans designed around each client’s goals, nervous system, and real-life demands.