Brainspotting

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, and phobias.

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.

Knowing oneself comes from attending with compassionate curiosity to what is happening within.
―Gabor Maté

For the rest of the sessions, you’ll focus on the feelings and body sensations that come up and continue to attend to whatever emerges in you.

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.

Resources
If you’re curious about the science of brainspotting, there are
good resources on the official Brainspotting website.

Healing is not by rote or ritual, it's by presence and attunement.

—David Grand

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