Brainspotting
What is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a brain-based and body-centered therapy that helps you heal from the source of where you are stuck. It is a powerful, rapid, effective tool that focuses on the deep bodymind sources of many emotional and somatic issues and resolves these issues from the source.
What can Brainspotting help you process through and release:
- Trauma (big or small)
- Enhancing performance and creativity/creative blocks
- Anxiety (and the underlying trauma that contributes to it)
- Depression (and the underlying trauma that contributes to it)
- Addiction
- Chronic pain
- Attachment wounds
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Complicated grief/Traumatic grief
- Anything that obstructs your experience of life (whether by feeling like too much or not enough)
Watch this video by the developer of brainspotting
David Grand, PhD–the discoverer and developer of Brainspotting–answers questions about what it is, how it is different from EMDR, and the issues it can be helpful for.
The Process
The process begins by the client holding an issue in their awareness that they wish to work on and noticing where they feel that issue in their body (This helps to bypass the thinking part of the brain and go into the limbic system where emotional memories are stored). From there, we find a spot in the visual field that is connected to that issue and sensation. You will notice that looking in different places will affect how you feel. Next is the processing, where the client witnesses whatever comes up as it comes up–it may be memories, images, sensations, thoughts, or emotions—and to experience whatever arises, without judgment, as fully as they are able to without strain.
More Brainspotting Videos
Who Does Brainspotting Work With?
What is a Brainspot?
“I am happy because I choose to look at things that make me happy and my eyes catch their funny edge and I laugh”
— Carlos Castaneda