Brainspotting Therapy
Brainspotting is a somatic therapy designed to treat trauma by accessing emotional and body memory. It gets you out of your intellect and into the parts of your brain that store traumatic memories. By creating a pathway to processing those memories, brainspotting can help you heal from trauma.
This modality is also useful for addressing creative and performance blocks, anxiety, depression, negative self-talk, chronic pain, phobias, and any areas of stuckness.
“Knowing oneself comes from attending with compassionate curiosity to what is happening within.”
As you tune in to your own experiences, I will attune to your process and provide a compassionate presence. This attunement and coregulation is part of what allows your mind to release and reorganize stuck memories, feelings, or thoughts.
A brainspotting session involves listening to a soundtrack of gentle music or nature sounds that will shift between your left and right ears to provide bilateral stimulation. We will identify the brainspot, or eye position, that activates a traumatic memory or other painful emotion. As you hold that position, you’ll focus on the feelings and body sensations that come up and continue to attend to whatever emerges in you.
“Healing is not by rote or ritual, it's by presence and attunement.”
— David Grand