Brainspotting Therapy

Brainspotting Therapy™

Brainspotting Therapy follows a person’s neurobiology and the wisdom of our deep subcortical brain to find homeostasis again – balance and integration of painful memories, feelings and symptoms.

Brainspotting is a powerful therapeutic tool that helps process and release trauma stored in the brain and body. By locating points in your visual field that stimulate emotional responses, we can unlock and resolve deeply rooted trauma.

HELPFUL LINKS

Here is the Amazon link to his book: Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change

And you can read more about Brainspotting at www.brainspotting.com .

Additionally, here are some short videos that describe the Brainspotting process:

A quote from David Grand, FOUNDER OF BRAINSPOTTING:

"Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of other challenging symptoms. Brainspotting gives us a tool to neurobiologically locate, focus, process, and release experiences and symptoms that are typically out of reach of the conscious mind and its cognitive and language capacity. Working with the deep brain and the body, Brainspotting allows for direct access to the autonomic and limbic systems within the body's central nervous system. Brainspotting is accordingly a physiological tool/treatment which has profound psychological, emotional, and physical consequences.

It is theorized that Brainspotting taps into and harnesses the body's innate self-scanning capacity to process and release focused areas (systems) which are in a maladaptive homeostasis (frozen primitive survival modes). This may also explain the ability of Brainspotting to often reduce and eliminate body pain and tension associated with physical conditions.

A "Brainspot" is the eye position which is related to the energetic and emotional activation of a traumatic experience. Located by eye position, paired with externally observed (by the therapist) and internally experienced (by the client) reflexive responses, a Brainspot is actually a physiological subsystem holding emotional experience in memory form. The maintenance of that eye position/Brainspot within the attentional focus on the body's "felt sense" of that issue or trauma stimulates a deep integrating and healing process within the brain. This processing, which appears to take place at a reflexive or cellular level within the nervous system, brings about a de-conditioning of previously conditioned, maladaptive emotional and physiological responses.

Brainspotting appears to stimulate, focus, and activate the body's inherent capacity to heal itself from trauma. It is also very useful to access and develop internal resource states end experiences. These resources allow the therapist and patient, where necessary, to "pendulate" between resource or positive states and trauma states during a Brainspotting session to enable more gradual, graded processing and desensitization of intensely traumatic and emotionally charged issues and symptoms."