Technicians   

We advise clinicians not to start with technicians until they know what they are doing.  It's much harder to supervise a technician unless your knowledge of neurofeedback is sufficient. If you're going to use a technician or a staff member (this could be a non-licensed clinician with credentials), he/she should be taking a very good training course also.  It should probably be the same course the main clinician took. You really don't want someone running the system who is not well trained.

You need to determine who's going to be making the protocol training decisions.  There can be challenges if someone is running the session and someone else did the intake and is making protocol decisions.  You have to rely closely on the technician or staff person to communicate all important information from the client. If the staff member doesn't have a good sense of what to look for in the client, or is not well tuned, important information that could influence the training decisions can get lost.  We've seen that happen numerous times.

It's can take six months or a year before many clinicians are ready to supervise other staff.  But there are clinicians who bring on technicians within the first month or two and appear to succeed.   They don't want to hook up the electrodes.  They don't want to sit there and run the sessions.  In that case, they bring in staff (hopefully trained), but they still observe the client and make protocol decisions.

How you use the technician depends also on the training model of neurofeedback you choose.  For example, if you are working with a clinician who uses a qEEG, it may be slightly easier to use a clinician if he is primarily following the qEEG.  But even in that case, clinical feedback is extremely important.