What is Brainspotting?

Brainspotting is an innovative, brain-body based therapeutic approach that helps individuals process and heal from trauma, emotional distress, and other challenging symptoms. This powerful, focused treatment method works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of other challenging symptoms.

Developed by Dr. David Grand, this therapy is based on the understanding that the direction in which people look or gaze can affect the way they feel. Brainspotting uses our field of vision to find where we are holding these traumas in our brain.

How Does Brainspotting Work?

Brainspotting sessions involve focusing on a presenting problem, rating feelings of distress, focusing on bodily sensations, following guided eye gazes, and practicing focused mindfulness. During treatment, I help guide your eye positioning to access specific areas where trauma and emotional distress are stored in the brain and body.

Brainspotting attempts to reprocess negative emotions by focusing on your body-based sensations rather than your thoughts. The therapy often incorporates bilateral auditory stimulation - specialized music that engages both brain hemispheres to create a calming effect on the nervous system.