Brain Balance Achievement Center Executive Director Named National Lead Trainer

WEST SPRINGFIELD — Megan Hudson, executive director of the Brain Balance Achievement Center on Riverdale Street, was selected to be the lead sensory motor trainer for the company’s national training center in Hauppauge, N.Y.

Hudson, a doctor of chiropractic medicine, was chosen for the position for her expertise in strengthening motor skills and sensory detection by Brain Balance Centers Co-Founder Robert Melillo.

Talitha Abramsen, director of the West Springfield center, said Melillo is a well-respected specialist in childhood neurological disorders in America who has been helping children overcome learning disabilities for over 20 years. Hudson has studied under Melillo for nearly 10 years in the field of functional neurology, since 2004.

“It is a huge honor to be offered this position by both the National Brain Balance team and Dr. Melillo,” Hudson said. “I am excited to give back to the company and share with incoming and existing Brain Balance employees, both my experience and training from Dr. Melillo and the important learnings I have gained from running our center in West Springfield for the past five years.”

Hudson will be responsible for training new and existing Brain Balance staff in the latest sensory motor protocols and concepts; employees from the company’s 80-plus centers gather throughout the year in small groups at the firm’s training facility in New York.

Hudson works with children through natural integrative approaches at the Brain Balance Achievement Center of West Springfield. She has extensive post-doctoral training in childhood developmental disorders and functional neurology.

While at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt., she earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and was certified to teach K-6 in Vermont.

In addition to her clinical experience in private practice for over a decade, Hudson has worked with students in reading, special education, outdoor education and athletic coaching.