Brainspotting
How can Brainspotting help me?
Brainspotting can be helpful in reducing and clearing symptoms of:
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-Trauma
-Anxiety, depression and panic
-Phobias
-Creativity and performance blocks
-Physical pain and discomfort
-Addiction, cravings and compulsive behaviors
-Unprocessed grief
What is a Brainspot?
A Brainspot is found through the eyes, and corresponds with activation in the brain and body. Because our eyes connect directly to the subcortical, mid-brain, Brainspotting helps release unpleasant, stored experiences by processing through the visual field. This supports the resolution of painful or traumatic experiences allowing optimal functioning to resume.
What is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a brain-body based therapy. Talk therapy engages the neocortex, our thinking, conscious brain, while somatic therapies (such as Brainspotting/EMDR, etc) access the sub-cortical system where trauma and distress are often stored.
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Current research in neuroscience reveals that painful memories can get stuck in the non-verbal, non-cognitive sub-cortical brain which diminishes our ability to live fully in the here and now. Some people experience anxiety, depression or just the sense of not feeling like themselves whether feeling shut down emotionally and closed off or numb. Others may feel highly triggered and emotionally reactive like a roller coaster day to day.
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Brain-body based therapy is the fastest growing field of trauma treatment because of it's proven ability to rapidly address issues that traditional talk therapy takes longer to resolve.
