The Vancouver Concussion & Neurofeedback Centre (VCNC) is the province’s first private health practice where the assessment and treatment of persistent concussion effects and those of more pronounced brain injury are a central focus. In addition to brain injury, diagnosis and treatment of other conditions is also very much part of the VCNC.

Neurofeedback is provided as the primary treatment offered for brain injury, as well as other challenges such as attention deficit disorder, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anger dyscontrol, autistic spectrum disorder. An introductory article on this technique written by Dr. Lewkis was published in 2008 in the The Verdict, the magazine of the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia.

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.

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.

His professional background also includes using computerized quantitative EEG for his doctoral research; training in eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR); and training in LENS neurofeedback and conventional neurofeedback and quantitative EEG. He is also certified as a Kundalini Yoga teacher by the Kundalini Research Institute and has been practicing Yoga since 1986. He is versed in the therapeutic application of yoga.