Brainspotting
Discover Your Brainspot. Transform Your Life.
Brainspotting helps process emotional pain, trauma and anxiety using the positioning of your eyes. Evidence has shown that where you look does connect to how you feel. In Brainspotting, a therapist guides you to find “brainspots,” points in your field of vision that link to emotions or sensations stored in the body.
By gently holding your gaze on these spots, your brain and body naturally release stuck emotional charge. One of the things I love best about Brainspotting is that it doesn’t require the client to talk at length—or sometimes, at all—about the memory. Sometimes, we’ll weave Brainspotting throughout sessions, and other times we might focus a whole session around it.
Examples of What Brainspotting Can Help With
Anxiety and emotional overwhelm
Burnout and chronic stress
Chronic pain
Depression or disconnection
Grief and loss
Relational and attachment wounds
Somatic or body-held stress
Trauma
Performance and creative blocks
What to Expect in a Brainspotting Session
In a Brainspotting session, I guide you with prompts to notice what arises in your body and mind. I may ask you how activated you feel, using a scale of 0 to 10. You can talk about what’s coming up as much or as little as you like, and silence is completely okay. I may also invite you to play bilateral sounds through your headphones to support your brain in integrating the experience.
It’s designed to help your brain and body release trauma and rewire it in healthy ways, with a therapist present to fully support you in the moment. As we practice Brainspotting, you may experience waves of emotions, bodily sensations or shifts in breathing and muscle tension, images and old memories — all of which are normal as your nervous system processes and heals.
Please note: Brainspotting is a powerful process that usually takes multiple sessions to be effective. Each session helps you gently process experiences and support lasting healing.