Brainspotting
For All Ages
Brainspotting is a power therapy model that targets acute, complex & intergenerational trauma.
It supports people in identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological areas where emotional suffering, body pain, trauma, dissociation, addiction, and a variety of distressing qualities may feel stuck. It can be used for a variety of issues, including phobias, infant disrupted attachment, physical pain, and feeling stuck in athletic or artistic performance.
Brainspotting honors a person’s autonomy and inherent ability to heal.
It is a somatic approach that utilizes eye positions and bilateral sound to access the regions of the brain, and helps release trauma and emotional suffering without having to talk about painful, activating experiences. When we use traditional talk therapy, we are operating from the neo cortex, or the rational part of our brain. Trauma, however, changes neural connections in our reptile and subcortical brain, or the parts of the brain that handles many of our subconscious & unconscious processes like breathing, or our fight, flight, freeze responses. That is why we can logically understand something about a negative experience, but feel or respond in a way that doesn’t always align.
Brainspotting uses our field of vision to access the cluster of neurons involved in trauma (aka trauma capsules). We then use focused mindful processing to activate the brain’s own internal healing resources to reprocess and release negative experiences that continue to feel distressing.