We are so proud to offer Brainspotting at our clinic. Brainspotting is a gentle, body-brain focused therapy that helps you process emotional pain, trauma, and stuck patterns by accessing the places in the brain where those experiences are held. It was developed by Dr. David Grand and is grounded in the idea that where you look
affects how you feel. Eye position can open a doorway into deeper parts of the brain where overwhelming unprocessed experiences are stored — especially the parts responsible for emotion, memory, and
survival responses.
When something difficult happens and the overwhelme nervous system
can’t fully process it, the experience can get ‘frozen’. You might notice
this as recurring anxiety, tension, intrusive thoughts, or an emotional
trigger that feels bigger than the situation. Brainspotting helps you
gently access those stored layers so your system can process them at a
pace that feels safe and manageable.
During a session in which you, as the client, choose an issue to work on,
you are helped to find a brainspot: a point in your visual field that
corresponds to where that traumatic event(s) is held in your brain and
body. This often involves using a pointer to guide your gaze, and
allowing you to notice where your nervous system feels most activated
with physical sensations in the body, emotions, and thoughts.
Once the visual spot is found, you are asked to keep your gaze on this
spot and assisted to tune mindfully into your internal processing
experience. You can talk about it as little or as much as you want, or at
not all.
Clients often describe brainspotting as deep, calming, surprisingly natural. You might notice shifts in breathing, emotion, body sensations, or memories. These changes signal that the brain is processing so you do not have to re-live the trauma for healing to happen.
