Brainspotting

Deeper than talk therapy

You’ve been in talk therapy for years and you understand your patterns. You can explain your childhood in perfect detail like a seasoned therapist…

And yet you are still not “over” the things that have hurt you in the past.

That’s because trauma isn’t stored in language — it’s held in the subcortical brain.

Brainspotting uses eye positions to access the subconscious.

The premise of Brainspotting is: “Where you look changes how you feel.”

Certain eye positions connect you to different sensations and emotions. You will choose a spot that feels connected to an experience that you want to explore more deeply. We can select an “activation” spot, where which taps you into a trauma you want to process, or select an “expansion” spot to help you shift into more positive emotional states like freedom, compassion or creativity.

We can incorporate IFS to work with different parts with you through finding their brainspots. This helps with accessing a variety of supportive perspectives while releasing stored up emotions and physical tension.

You can speak or stay silent. Together we follow what Brainspotting calls the “the tail of the comet” — the natural intelligence of your nervous system guiding us towards resolution.

Biolateral music can be added to help you regulate your nervous system.

Brainspotting is ideal if you:

feel haunted by a long-standing issue

don’t want to retell the story

prefer a flexible and intuitive approach

want to move trauma out of the body

prefer meditation with a side of magic

need to access hope in the darkness