Get Brain

Integration Certified

Get BI Certified

Get Certified

Earning your Brain Integration Certification gives you a definite edge in the field of brain integration. Not only does it showcase your specialization, it speaks volumes about your commitment, your passion, and your expertise. Getting certified will increase trust from potential clients, boost public awareness for brain integration, and help you continue to improve your practice. We have laid out the required knowledge you will want to know as a brain integration practitioner. This page includes a guide to help you recognize gaps in your knowledge so that you can prepare prior to taking the written and practical exams. As you complete the certification steps, you will upload your supporting documentation on this page as well. Start uploading now and see where you are on your certification journey with our easy-to-use checklist.

Benefits of Getting Certified:

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Stay up to date on industry best practices

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Maintain the highest recognized standards

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Opportunity to have this website advertise your business

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Gain national recognition

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Be included on the BII practitioner directory

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Join a network of dedicated professionals

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Access resources and support for additional training

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Recieve accreditation

Certification Requirements:

  • Complete 500 hours of relevant brain integration training
  • Complete 200 clinical hours in a brain integration or kinesiology setting 
  • Get First-Aid and CPR certified 
  • Demonstrate competency in a brain integration practicum assessment
  • Complete certification test with at least 80% accuracy
  • Show proof of  professional and liability insurance (example: ABMP)
  • Complete a background check
  • Certification fee 

* Upon completion of these steps, you will be asked to submit supporting documents to the brain integration board for review.

** If you have questions about any part of this process, please contact us and a member of our board will be happy to help.

Topics included on the certification exam:

If you find that there are gaps in your knowledge base, opportunities for additional training can be found on our education page.

Standard Knowlege Base:

Anatomy & Physiology

The understanding and knowledge of the anatomy & physiology of the brain, organs, glands, and metabolic functions. To include muscle and meridian maps.

Knowledge of major functions and positions of:

  • Triune brain
  • Lobes
  • Cortex
  • Limbic areas
  • Thalamus
  • Hypothalamus
  • Amygdala
  • Hippocampus
  • Cingulate gyrus
  • Basal ganglia
  • Pituitary
  • Pineal
  • Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
  • Medial prefrontal cortex
  • Wernicke’s area
  • Brocas area
  • RIP and LIP (right and left integrative points)
  • AIP (auditory interpretive points)
  • Brain stem areas
  • Midbrain parts
  • Pons
  • Diencephalon parts
  • Premotor and motor cortices
  • Orbitofrontal cortex
  • Broadman’s areas
  • Vision system
  • Auditory
  • Vestibular
Brain Integration Awareness & Symptoms

A base knowledge of the pathologies, symptoms, and situations that would require brain integration assistance

  • Learning and brain integration
    • Learning difficulties
    • Focus issues
    • Attention stress
    • Memory
    • Academic stress
    • Academic help: Reading, Math, Focus, Resource, Listening
  • Behaviors and emotional states
    • Defiance
    • Behavior issues
    • Anxiety
    • Avoidance
    • Motivation
    • Mood
    • Resilience
  • ADHD symptoms
  • Sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) symptoms
  • Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptoms
  • Auditory processing
  • Visual processing
    • Reading
  • Vestibular
    • Balance
    • Coordination
  • Pathways of learning, memory, emotion, and motivation
  • Regulation skills and support
  • Executive and emotional integration
  • Fight/flight/freeze and other primal states
  • Cortex and Limbic Areas and functions
  • Brain Stem Areas and functions
  • Injuries and pathologies
  • Neurotransmitters, Hormones
  • Limits of practice
Executive Functions
  • An understanding of neurologically-based skills that manage and regulate attention, behavior, and one’s resources in order to achieve a goal
  • Knowledge of prefrontal cortex functions, and how the brainstem, limbic areas, and organ functions influence them.
  • Metacognition (Awareness, Critical thinking, Creative thinking, etc.)
  • Organization, Monitoring and Management of time, material, tasks, and movement
  • Attention (Focus, Adaptive Responses, Sustaining etc.)
  • Cognitive Control (Persistence, Distractibility, Shifting, etc.)
  • Memory (Working memory, Encoding, Storage and Retrieval, Accuracy etc.)
  • Problem solving, decision making, emotional regulation, impulse control, and movement motor management

Senses & Reflexes

Competency in understanding the application of senses & reflexes involving the following systems

  • Muscle spindle cells and muscle response testing
  • Neuro-vasculars and Neuro-lymphatics
  • Basic knowledge of reflexes and learning
Techniques & Applications

Knowledge and understanding of applications and techniques associated with brain integration

  • Techniques and applications based on the function and physiology of brain integration
  • Muscle movements
  • Application of touch
  • Understanding and application of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Meridian Theory
  • Understanding and application of the Five Elements Theory
  • Basic understanding and application of the major chakras

Professional Training:

Objectives & Assessments

Implementing a system to report and record client progress and procedures

  • Learn and use a practitioner SOAP notes tracking system
    • The practitioner must identify and use a system to track clients’ progress and soap notes, including client files, symptoms, objectives, assessments, techniques, and results.
  • Knowledge and practical use of professional clinical skills
  • Objective awareness of the brain integration symptoms and situation
  • Assessing brain integration conditions including:
    • Executive functions
    • Reading 
    • Writing
    • Balance and coordination
    • Behavior
  • Planning a session
  • Completing a session
  • Offering goals and homework tools
  • Working with different types of populations
Professional Conduct

A candidate for brain integration certification will maintain professional behavior. This involves ethical conduct including morals and standards in conjunction with best business practices. They also strive to maintain their ethical requirements for certification.

Ethics and Boundaries

Learning and following ethical behavior and practices

Ethics

  • Understanding of ethics
  • Awareness of justifications
  • Personal code of conduct
  • Knowledge and application of the ethical standards

Boundaries

  • Including transference, counter-transference, setting boundaries with the client upfront, etc.
  • Laws
  • Regulations
  • Recognizing ethical issues
  • Scope of practice
  • Confidentiality
  • Personal code of moral conduct
Good Business Practices

Setting good standards of practice for both the business and client

  • Personal and business boundaries
  • Insurance
    • Practice liability
    • Property liability
  • Respecting the client
    • Being sensitive to income level and level of understanding
    • Getting parental approval for services
    • Never being alone with a child client
    • Maintaining confidentiality
    • Encouraging clients to voice concerns, questions, and fears and then addressing them appropriately
  • Obtaining signed agreement from clients recognizing the nature of services, scope of practice, and any professional disclaimers

Competency Base:

Effective Communication

Developing communication skills to best support and respect clients

  • Understanding the types of personalities
  • Understanding the drama triangle
  • Understanding how to communicate with children, teenagers, and adults
    • Respond effectively to difficult behavior
  • Recognizing the drama, the emotions, and the beliefs that might block progress
  • Demonstrating effective interpersonal communication
    • Showing respect, asking permission to offer
    • Listening first, second, and last
    • Not preaching, nor diagnosing
    • Reflecting back
Client Clinic Services

Completion of 200 hours of clinical practice in brain integration or kinesiology including various populations and settings

  • Practicum with the public
    • Practicum in a lab setting with oversight
  • SOAP notes
  • Experience brain integration with
    • Children
    • Teenagers
    • Adults
    • Special needs
Competency-Based Testing

Show competency in brain integration by completing a knowledge-based test and a live practical exam

  • Multiple-choice test to demonstrate knowledge in brain integration
    • Test is based on expected knowledge for this profession
    • Pass grade of 80% correct required
  • Live practical exam 
    • Assesses ability to run a session and perform a balance
  • Experience working with diverse groups such as:
    • Children
    • Teenagers
    • Adults
    • Special needs
Certification

The practitioner will successfully complete their certification requirements to become a brain integration practitioner. This includes ethics training, first-aid certification, testing, and 200 hours of clinical practice.

*This list is not comprehensive, but instead gives examples of information and skills needed for certification. Additional information may be included in testing and training.

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