Conditions we treat
You may not have been
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ANAVA specialises in conditions where conventional treatment has not provided adequate relief. Each patient is assessed individually, without assumptions.
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Depression —
Mild & Chronic
Depression exists on a spectrum — from mild but persistent low mood that affects daily function, to chronic depression that has endured for years. Both forms can be profoundly debilitating, and both can leave patients feeling that conventional approaches haven't provided adequate relief.
Whether you've tried medication, therapy, or both — neurotherapy works through entirely different mechanisms, directly modulating the neural circuits involved in mood regulation rather than through systemic brain chemistry. This opens a new avenue for patients across the mild-to-chronic spectrum.
tDCS (Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation) and tVNS (transcutaneous auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation) are the therapies ANAVA Clinics offers today, with published research supporting their use in mood regulation and depressive symptoms. TMS, which has FDA clearance for depression and decades of clinical use, will join our offering as we grow.
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Chronic Pain
Management
Chronic pain is not simply pain that has persisted — it represents a fundamental change in how the nervous system processes sensation. Over time, pain circuits can become sensitised, meaning the brain generates a pain experience that is no longer accurately proportional to tissue damage.
Neuromodulation targets these central sensitisation processes directly — modulating pain-processing networks in the brain rather than attempting to block peripheral pain signals. For patients who have found limited relief through analgesics, physiotherapy, or other conventional approaches, this represents a fundamentally different intervention point.
Relevant therapies
- tDCS — available now, primary option for chronic pain
- tVNS — available now, for pain conditions with an inflammatory or autonomic component
- TMS — joining our offering as we grow
Why tDCS for chronic pain. Of our therapies, tDCS has the most direct evidence base in persistent pain. Applied over the motor cortex or the prefrontal cortex, it appears to act on the way the brain amplifies and sustains pain signals — the central sensitisation described above — rather than on the painful area itself. Sessions are short and non-invasive, benefit typically builds gradually across a course rather than arriving in one session, and it can sit alongside the pain management, physiotherapy or medication you already have.
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Anxiety
Disorders
Anxiety becomes a clinical concern when the body’s threat response stays switched on long after any real threat has passed. Generalised anxiety, social anxiety and OCD all involve circuits that have learned to over-predict danger — which is why reasoning with the feeling so rarely settles it.
Much of this activity centres on the prefrontal cortex and its regulation of deeper limbic structures. When that top-down control weakens, the alarm runs unchecked. Neuromodulation aims at exactly this relationship — supporting regulatory control rather than sedating the response.
For people whose anxiety has not responded adequately to medication or psychological therapy, this offers a different point of intervention — one that can sit alongside the therapy or medication you are already receiving, not in place of it.
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Further conditions
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Parkinson’s & Movement Disorders
Parkinson’s disease and related movement disorders involve changes in motor circuits deep within the brain. Targeted neuromodulation is being studied as a way to support motor control, gait and fatigue alongside standard neurological care — never in place of it.
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Stroke Recovery & Neuro-Rehabilitation
After a stroke or traumatic brain injury, recovery depends on the brain’s capacity to reorganise. Neuromodulation may be used to support that neuroplasticity, and is considered as an adjunct to physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy.
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Insomnia & Sleep
Persistent sleep difficulty often travels with mood and anxiety conditions. Where it does, addressing the underlying regulation may support sleep alongside your existing care.
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Cognitive Decline & Dementia
Research into neuromodulation for memory and cognitive function is active but early. We assess each case individually and will be candid about what the evidence does and does not yet show.
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Not certain if ANAVA is right for you?
We'd rather you contact us with a question and find out neurotherapy isn't the right path, than spend more time uncertain. Our initial conversations are no-obligation, and our team will always give you an honest assessment.