Brainspotting

Visually access where your trauma resides.

When we shift where we look, we shift how we feel. We do this intuitively. We will naturally look left or right, up or down, to either retrieve a feeling or memory or to avoid a feeling or memory.

With Brainspotting, we can use brain spots (eye-focused positions) to intensify feelings and memories and notice where we feel the most distress.

Brainspotting is a mind-body technique that blends aspects of somatic experiencing and EMDR to help clients resolve unresolved memories, sensations, traumas, and emotions held in the deeper parts of the brain and in the nervous system.

Anything that we cannot process can be considered trauma.

Eye positions and unprocessed trauma resulted in a new treatment.

David Grand developed Brainspotting out of EMDR in 2003. He discovered Brainspotting after working with a figure skater on her performance issues. Nothing worked; she couldn’t land her triple axles.

David noticed that her eyes avoided certain areas as she spoke about landing her jumps, so he had her hold the brain spot he saw her avoiding. Over the next 10 minutes, she moved through traumatic material that had not come up in her previous sessions with him over the last three years.

Together, they resolved her subcortical brain blocks, and she could finally land her triple axles without issues.

As a result of this work with the skater, David started applying brainspotting to all his clients, and his clients began to teach him how the process worked. Eventually, he added bilateral stimulation (utilizing both the left and right brain hemispheres) along with the pointer he held up for them to look at. By activating the brain spots, he could get to the subcortical part of the brain where the memory, core beliefs, and unresolved traumas were stored.

To this day, brainspotting is the top-rated modality by the survivors and the parents of the children who died in the Sandy Hook tragedy on December 14th, 2012. Here is the report:

Heal from your trauma.

Brainspotting offers a different approach to dealing with trauma by helping locate the particular brain spot that triggers the distressing feeling.

As a qualified therapist with training in brainspotting, I have seen what this treatment modality can do for clients struggling with trauma and feeling stuck.

Through brainspotting, your mind-body can help you with what keeps you blocked, allowing you to heal your past.

Contact me today, and let’s start working on helping you with your current challenges that are still influenced by your past experiences.