Brainspotting
Where we look affects how we feel. Each gaze connects with a brainspot (a particular place in our brain) which is wired with emotion and sensation based on the meaning made in a prior experience.
Brainspotting makes intentional use of eyes to locate the spot where memory activation occurs. By gazing at that spot and allowing time to elapse without shifting eye position, a gentle way of processing that memory usually happens. This allows you to find deeper meaning with careful revision to the impact of that memory. Each experience gets encoded in our brain. What many people don’t realise is that each memory or situation can be targeted. When you find the right spot, huge change can happen.
Founded by David Grand PhD in 2003. Brainspotting is a transformative therapy treatment, that focuses on identifying, processing, and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional or body pain, trauma, dissociation, and a variety of challenging symptoms.
Over 25,000 therapists now have completed training worldwide. I have trained to Level 3 in Brainspotting led by Mark Grixti in the UK and David Grand from the USA.
Brainspotting is different from other psychotherapies and healing modalities in a variety of ways. It strategically utilises enhanced relational attunement and the client’s visual field to access their brain’s self-scanning and self-healing capabilities.
Brainspotting can take you and your clients to another level. Brainspotting liberates the therapist from restrictions which too often compromise the all-important relational attunement, this interpersonal dynamic is the key to working with Brainspots, a powerful and unique tool in identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional and embodied.
According to Brainspotting UK, this is a highly-developed relational and technical approach, with philosophical and physiological underpinnings. It is an open, inclusive, integrative, model that uses prior knowledge and experience, but importantly accessing the client’s ineherent wisdom. It is designed to be adapted into other clinical approaches and therapeutic styles – so it is very adaptive to each client’s unique material.
The goal of Brainspotting to identify and access then harness the body’s natural self-scanning self-healing ability. Brainspotting emphasises the importance of present awareness in a relational way with the therapist, to process life issues or situations, and resolve the parts that seek to heal.
Brainspotting is gentle, well-paced, for deep processing in a profound way. This usually leaves you feeling that you’ve worked through difficult stuff in a contained and productive way.
To find out more about how this approach might be useful for you, do get in touch by booking a free 30-minute call.