Brainspotting - "Where you look affects how you feel"

What is Brainspotting?

Brainspotting is a brain and body base technique for healing emotional trauma. It is helping you to release trapped emotions. A new technique that effectively deals with the root cause of the psychological stress and the trauma. It is based on: where you look, or your eye position in context with deeply held emotional experiences that are usually not reachable by the traditional talk therapy. If you have ever felt stuck, having strong anxiety, repeating an unhealthy patterns or habits, then Brainspotting is a suitable therapy to help you break free from those cycles. The Founder of Brainspotting is David Grand, Ph.D.

“Where you look affects how you feel”

Brainspotting uses the natural process of relevant eye positions. This approach may help to locate, focus, process and release a range of emotionally and bodily based conditions. Brainspotting is also a brain-based tool which can support the therapeutic relationship. It is believed by the developer that Brainspotting helps to harness the body’s natural self-scanning, self-healing ability. When a Brainspot (access point) is found, it means the deep brain appears to reflexively signal the therapist that the source of the problem has been found. Brainspotting can be used as well to find and strengthen your natural resources and resilience. Brainspotting is designed as a therapeutic tool that can be integrated into many of the therapeutic modalities. Brainspotting is even more powerful when used with the enhancement of BioLateral Sounds.

Who does Brainspotting work with?

Brainspotting seems effective with a range of emotional and somatic conditions and trauma-based situations, helping to identify and heal underlying traumas that contribute to the client's anxiety, depression, and other unhealthy behavioural patterns. BSP can help with performance and creativity enhancement and gives the therapist access to both brain and body processes. It aims to access the deeper level of the brain, which is the subcortical emotional and body-based parts of the brain. It is not aimed to focus on conscious and neocortical thinking, but rather the deeply held emotions and body reactions.

Why choose Brainspotting?

People decide to proceed with Brainspotting because they are seeking therapy for the first time, or they have been in different therapy before and seeking new techniques that could help their problem more effectively. The BSP practitioner can help the client find the eye positions usually called a Brainspot/Access point where the trauma, depression, anxiety or behavioural issues are held in the brain. This enables the brain to process from the inside out and also from the bottom up.