Brainspotting Therapy
Healing that goes beyond talk therapy
Have you had things happen in your past that still bother you, affect the way you live your life and how you are in your relationships?
We all have experiences buried deep in our brain that impact decisions we make in our daily life and in our relationships. You may even know what you should do but don’t do it or don’t feel you can do it. You may have tried talk therapy before but its not providing answers and after learning coping skills you still feel stuck.
For many of my clients who feel this way, through Brainspotting they gain clarity and understanding of themselves and their life.
Brainspotting is a type of therapy that goes deep into our subcortical brain in a way that talk therapy can’t accomplish. Talk therapy can only access the neocortex and the logical part of the brain. In Brainspotting, by gazing at a specific eye point in the visual field, this accesses the deeper parts of the brain where emotional pain and physical distress is stored.
The healing process can happen much more quickly in Brainspotting than in traditional talk therapy.
Powerful therapy that offers healing in a focused yet gentle way
Unlike talk therapy, with Brainspotting, you don’t have to talk about the details of your trauma to process and release your pain.
There’s no right way to do Brainspotting, or a particular set of steps you have to follow for it to work. Instead, we work together to locate the eye spot that corresponds to either the emotion and sensation around the issue you want to work on or finding the highest possibility within you for the way to a positive outcome. By gazing at the corresponding eye spot, you engage your midbrain, the superior colliculi, to reset your brain’s response to the memory so that it is not as distressing. During this process, you can talk as little or as much as you want. You are in control of this process. My role is to guide and support you through this in a gentle and nonjudgmental way.
After Brainspotting, the memory will still be there, but it can feel less emotionally and physically overwhelming, less like an open wound and more like an experience that is manageable.
Article on how Brainspotting was “life-changing” for the writer.
“Its gaining buzz for its ability to help people process painful emotional experiences without needing to retell them in detail.”
https://www.self.com/story/brainspotting-heres-what-to-know
These are the conditions Brainspotting can help with:
Trauma: Whether the trauma was from a single incident or ongoing childhood trauma with attachment wounds, Brainspotting can help. In a 5 year study of those directly impacted by the Sandy Hook tragedy, Brainspotting was the most effective treatment.
Anxiety and panic: Brainspotting can uncover and resolve past experiences that contribute to symptoms.
Depression: Negative self esteem and shame can exacerbate depression. Brainspotting can strengthen the positive neural networks in your brain by providing a embodied felt experience of your own goodness and self-worth.
Imposter Syndrome: Brainspotting can target your self-doubt and instead find self-assurance of being good enough.
Perfectionism and Procrastination: Brainspotting can help when you are questioning yourself and procrastinating because you are afraid of not being perfect.
Performance: Brainspotting can help you resolve performance blocks and access your flow state. This is helpful for not only athletes, artists, writers, and performers, but anyone who wants to feel more confident and centered when they are in high pressure situations.
Start your transformational healing through Brainspotting
You can choose to access Brainspotting through ongoing sessions where we meet weekly or every other week.
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If you are already working with another therapist, you can continue to work with your therapist while adding adjunct Brainspotting sessions as a powerful addition to enhance your healing around a specific issue or goal. I can contact your primary therapist to coordinate your treatment. Adjunct Brainspotting can be for a few sessions, several weeks, or for a few months.