Brainspotting

Brainspotting is a body-based modality for healing trauma and regulating the nervous system. Brainspotting locates points in a client’s visual field that help access unprocessed trauma in the subcortical brain. The subcortical brain is the most primitive part of the brain and what lights up on a brain scan when the body detects a threat and goes into a stress response of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. Brainspotting helps you experience prfound healing on a neurobiological level.

Brainspotting is often used to reprocess traumatic memories, but it is beneficial for a wide range of issues and can be faster at targeting stuck memories than talk therapy alone.

I am trained in Brainspotting! Brainspotting is a therapeutic approach that targets trauma and emotional issues by identifying and processing brainspots, eye positions correlating with neural activation linked to emotional experiences. It involves focused mindfulness and therapist's guidance to access and release deep-seated emotions, facilitating healing and resolution.

One of the newest therapeutic techniques, Brainspotting can help process trauma and other issues using you eyes to focus outwardly while the brain heals inwardly. As a certified Brainspotting practitioner, I will use this technique in areas where words may not bring healing or understanding.

When we experience trauma, which is a more common and ordinary experience than we realize, our brains are unable to process the traumatic material. Through neurobiological research, we know that in a trauma state, the brain stores trauma in the midbrain, which makes it difficult to heal and process traumatic material through talk therapy alone. I offer brainspotting to help put the brain into a position where it can heal itself of the traumatic symptoms.

Brainspotting addresses the physiological and instinctual responses to trauma that bypass our brain's cognitive abilities. We can access and release the trauma stored deep in the brain and body through eye positioning and somatic awareness.

Where you looks affects how you feel. BSP makes use of this natural phenomenon through its use of relevant eye positions. This helps the BSP therapist locate, focus, process and release a wide range of emotionally and bodily-based conditions. BSP is also a brain-based tool to support the therapy relationship. We believe that BSP taps into and harnesses the body’s natural self-scanning, self-healing ability.

I have completed Phase 1 and 2 of Brainspotting training and use this within session as clients desire. This approach focuses on the connection between the body and brain and strives to quickly reduce activation and increase emotional regulation. This approach is helpful for reducing symptoms related to trauma, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and chronic pain and chronic fatigue.

Brainspotting (BSP) is a powerful, focused method for treating trauma and other unresolved psychological issues. This unique approach helps you release the psychological blocks that keep you from being your most connected, creative, actualized self. Brainspotting offers deep neurological healing that talk therapy alone often cannot access. This technique gives us a way to access the subcortical brain, the place where emotional and somatic experiences are kept.

Brainspotting is life-changing. Whether focusing on a feeling or an overall traumatic event, brainspotting helps process what our brain is storing and promotes coherence between sympathetic and parasympathetic activation. Trauma can take up a lot of emotional space and it has a way of affecting so many future choices, activities, and relationships. Let's work together to create more space in your life and process the trauma.

Brainspotting allows us access to neural pathways leading to the midbrain that talk therapy cannot. If you have issues or concerns that you are not yet comfortable talking about or don't feel like you can find the right words, this modality may be for you.

I am trained in Phase 1 and Phase 2 of Brainspotting. I consult and practice with my fellow Brainspotting therapists on a regular basis and am continually learning techniques as this field expands to treat more and more mental health issues. This is primarily a subconscious process, where we allow the brain to process in the way it wants to, rather than in the way it is being led to.

At this point, I’m mostly only working with new clients who are open to it as a part of our work together because doing therapy without Brainspotting feels a little like doing therapy with my arms tied behind my back. I just can’t help people make the movement we both want them to make with traditional talk therapy. For more information on Brainspotting visit Brainspotting.com or my website.

I am trained to utilize Brainspotting and use this to address past trauma, OCD symptoms, and eating disorders.

Brainspotting is a treatment method that utilizes your visual field to connect with the parts of your brain that hold onto unprocessed trauma. Brainspotting invites clients to process distressing experiences by following the lead of their body.

The two modes of Brainspotting are activation and resource. Our emotions and feelings give language to our experiences and what’s going on. The Allocortex is the part of the brain that gives us access to our emotions and helps with regulation, it has access to parts of the brain that help with emotions and it is a covering of the limbic system. That's the part we tap into to heal trauma, anxiety, depression, stress, etc.

Brainspotting (BSP) is a therapeutic strategy that can help provide opportunities for profound healing of trauma & stuck emotional states. It can also help with gaining clarity and resolving creative blocks. Using focused mindfulness to facilitate processing is achieved by the tenant of BSP that 'where we look impacts how we feel'. I am currently pursuing certification in BSP and have found my experiences in receiving BSP to be incredibly healing.

Brainspotting was discovered in 2003 by David Grand, PhD. https://brainspotting.pro/ Where we look determines how we feel, and how we feel also determines where we look. Brainspotting uses the attunement of the therapist to the client to access those parts in the sub-cortex and mid-brain that are impacted by trauma or negative life experiences. “Brainspotting is based on the profound attunement of the therapist with the patient, finding a somatic cue and by down-regulating the amygdala"

I am trained and certified in Brainspotting. Brainspotting aims to access and process trauma and other experiences, including creative blocks, physical and emotional pain, dystonias, the "yips", spirituality and so, so much more. It combines elements of traditional talk therapy, the use of mindful processing, somatic experiences of the issue or feeling, and eye positions or multiple eye positions. It is both brain and body based and allows for deep processing.

Brainspotting is a body-based modality for healing trauma and regulating the nervous system. Brainspotting locates points in a client’s visual field that help access unprocessed trauma in the subcortical brain. The subcortical brain is the most primitive part of the brain and what lights up on a brain scan when the body detects a threat and goes into a stress response of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. Brainspotting helps you experience profound healing on a neurobiological level.