Brainspotting Therapy

Brain-Body Trauma Therapy

Brainspotting allows a client the ability to gain access to the part of the brain where unprocessed memories and emotions from a traumatic experience are stored. This helps them to process difficult emotions and feelings stored in long-term memory as well as release the related psychosomatic pains and trauma patterns within the body.

Unlike normal talk therapy which notoriously takes many years to process trauma and the related emotions, new innovative techniques such as Brainspotting Therapy have been shown to help clients resolve and release stored emotions and memories within the brain and body without needing to relive the initial trauma. Traditional talk therapy is a "top-down" approach that attempts to solve problems using the conscious mind (neocortical thinking), and therefore it can take a long time to access unconscious memories and emotions stored within the brain and body. Brainspotting is a "bottom-up" therapy also known as a brain-body approach to healing which targets the subcortical parts of the brain and focuses on the release of these blockages that have been stored, allowing for processing of traumatic memories and emotions which may have been stuck for a person's entire lifetime. David Grand, PhD describes this "stuckness" as "frozen maladaptive homeostasis". It uses sensitivities withing the visual field even if you do not have access to the memories of the event. This technique is used to process and release the related trauma, emotions, and perceptions, that have become stuck within the body and energy field that can cause not only chronic pain but chronic illnesses. After the trauma is released, the client no longer experiences being "triggered" into a trauma response in relation to the resolved issue.

What can Brainspotting treat effectively?

Brainspotting is an effective short-term technique (1-3 sessions usually) for anxiety, depression, Parts work, self-worth issues, trauma from neglect or abandonment, chronic pain, addiction, and behavioral conditions. It can really be used for any concern or even to enhance creativity.

Common uses for Brainspotting are:

  • grief

  • ptsd symptoms

  • attachment issues

  • dissociative disorders

  • specific phobias

  • safety & security

  • betrayal & trust wounds

  • fear of failure/feelings of failure

  • power/control related trauma

  • Confidence

  • feeling invalidated

  • self-sabotage

  • abuse

  • relationship issues or issues at work

  • and more.

Brainspotting Single Session

In this session we will speak briefly about the issue you would like to work on and then move right into the session. Brainspotting usually takes 1-3 sessions to resolve a particular issue. These are targeted sessions so please pick one area of focus per session. If the issue has been resolved prior to the completion of the session and there is still time to fit in another topic we can start to work on a second issue but there many not be time to bring it to resolution.

$75