For more than twenty years, Marly Jones has dedicated her work to helping individuals heal, reset, and transform their well-being. As a Doctor of Naturopathy, Advanced Certified Neuro Trainer, Certified Brain Health Coach, Certified Neuropsychotherapist, and SPECT Imaging Provider, she blends neuroscience, neurofeedback, natural medicine, and emotional wellness into a truly integrative approach.
Marly specializes in chronic stress, anxiety, autonomic nervous system dysfunction, trauma-related challenges, and complex chronic illnesses. Through her signature Detox Stress & Mind Renewal Method, she helps clients strengthen the brain, calm the nervous system, and restore clarity, energy, and emotional balance. She shares these tools globally through her Detox Stress Masterclass, her Healing Chronic Illness with Marly podcast, and her neurofeedback practice, Harmony Neurofeedback.
Marly’s mission is rooted in the belief that the body has an extraordinary ability to heal when given the right support. Her work honors the innate intelligence of the mind, body, and soul—an understanding shaped by her own journey as both a Lyme Disease warrior and a Traumatic Brain Injury survivor. These experiences fuel her passion for helping others overcome the challenges that feel overwhelming or impossible.
A proud Canadian American, Marly divides her time between Alberta’s mountain trails and the beaches of Florida. When she isn’t supporting clients or creating new wellness resources, she can be found hiking, horseback riding, or enjoying time with her college sweetheart and their two grown sons.
A gentle, structured approach to help your brain release stress patterns and return to balance.
Marly’s journey into brain-based healing began long before she became a practitioner. After battling Lyme Disease and recovering from a traumatic brain injury, she experienced firsthand how deeply stress, trauma, and nervous system dysregulation can shape a person’s health. These challenges became the catalyst for her lifelong commitment to studying the brain, natural medicine, and the body’s innate ability to heal.
Her personal experience fuels the compassion, precision, and dedication she brings to every client. Today, Marly combines her advanced training in neuroscience, naturopathy, neurofeedback, and brain health coaching to help individuals calm their nervous system, rebuild resilience, and reclaim their quality of life.
Her story isn’t just her own—it’s the foundation of her mission to bring hope, clarity, and healing to others walking a similar path.
We call NeurOptimal® a form of neurofeedback for two reasons. The first is that during a session information about your brain is collected (that’s the neuro- part) and then is fed back to your brain by brief pauses in sound. That’s the feedback part. Hence the logical name, neurofeeedback.
The second reason is that the co-developers of NeurOptimal® were active contributors within the field of neurofeedback for many years and NeurOptimal® was an evolution of that work. In fact Dr. Valdeane Brown openly shared his thinking for nigh on a decade with his colleagues. His ideas were so revolutionary however, that there was difficulty accepting them within the field. Slowly the Drs. Brown withdrew, devoting their energies to developing a system that could accurately incorporate their thinking. We now know that system as NeurOptimal®.
What was so radically different in the thinking of the Drs. Brown? It was their idea of viewing the brain as an intelligent, self-organizing dynamical system which can actively utilize information to its own benefit. Viewed from this perspective, the most important element in helping the brain to self-organize is simply the provision of accurate information (that is, feedback). In contrast, our esteemed colleagues viewed the brain as a collection of individual parts that required re-directing in some way. Their approaches relied on extensive evaluation and diagnosis (this condition has too much of this and too little of this) followed by decisions taken by the practitioner as to what the brain needed more of and less of. This would result in training of different states of consciousness, some activating the brain and some quieting it. In short, the brain was told what to do to improve itself. The person doing the training was very much an active participant in getting the brain to behave better, often working very hard to gain points and achieve a variety of goals presented by the software, in order to make the brain change. Sensors would sometimes be moved during sessions too, so each part of the brain could be worked with separately. A crucial role of the practitioner was constantly watching for side effects as a consequence of these training of states, both during the sessions and between sessions. Prior to every session time would be spent assessing how the client had fared since the last session and the protocol for that day adapted to correct for noted imbalances in how the client was feeling. In fact, this is the way most neurofeedback systems function to this day.
This brings us to the last part of our question — why are we so careful to distinguish Neuroptimal® from other neurofeedback systems? All Neuroptimal® does is present information to the brain in a way that can be understood by a dynamical system, and the brain does the rest. No evaluation, no diagnosis, no telling the brain what to do, no goals, no training of states (so no side effects) and no conscious participation by the client. Effortless.
Now THAT is elegance! Simple. Not simplistic.
