What is Brainspotting Therapy?

Brainspotting is an innovating brain-based therapy tool developed by psychotherapist Dr. David Grand , who discovered that “where you look affects how you feel” and used that finding to create a method for faster and effective self-healing. This means that, depending on where you look, you may feel more calm or more stressed while thinking of something distressing or upsetting.

Brainspotting therapy works by locating an eye position that correlates to deep place in your subcortical brain where a negative emotions, memory, thought or experience is stored. This eye position is call the Brainspot.

Once the brainspot is activated, it will release the negative emotion, memory, thought or experience, allowing you to rapidly process, resolve, overcome and heal.

Brainspotting Therapy for Anxiety

Brainspotting for Anxiety is an effective tool due to its physiological response to feelings that your brain wants to manage. Brainspotting is known to significantly reduce anxiety during therapy and continues to reduce anxiety after therapy has ended. Brainspotting therapist makes this possible because it create pathways to heal anxiety rather than masking those symptoms.

Brainspotting therapy can also be used to find your brainspot for positive emotions like hopefulness and relaxation, which you can revisit when needed.

The main goal of brainspotting is help you regulate and achieve balance through reprocessing negative experiences and retaining emotional responses.

Are you ready to trade in your anxiety for BALANCE?

Brain Spotting vs Talk Therapy

This technique was developed to use the eye position to help focus attention and provide access to information stored deep in the brain and body (which is the midbrain and nervous system). With this access, combined with the therapeutic presence and support of your therapist, the body and brain are able to process and heal wherever is getting in the way our wellbeing.

Your therapist will help you mindfully witness your inner process, promoting deep integration of relief from whatever was holding back in life.

Brainspotting can open doorways to new insights and cause internal shifts in your mind and body that help you to feel calmer and more at peace about issues that have previously caused you stressed. It doesn’t require extensive talk therapy to get there.

Are you ready to make a SHIFT?

Expectations & Brainspotting

Each individual reacts different, however since Brainspotting therapy access your nervous system, you may notice mental, emotional, and physical differences the next few days after your session. If you are feeling related to anxiety, it could bring up unprocess feelings related to your anxiety, but your therapist will discuss that with you after brainspotting session.

Some chose to utilize brainspotting for each session, while others like to alternate with other therapeutic work throughout the course of their treatment. Everyone treatment is unique to them.

It it highly suggested that you rest & relax (self-care). If you feel tired, listen to you body and rest. You feel like you don’t have time to relax, but its important to go withy your body and let yourself rest.