What is Brainspotting?

Brainspotting (BSP) is a mind/body/brain-based approach to healing deep emotional wounds and blocks to emotional and personal growth and freedom.  It is a powerful, focused, therapeutic method that works by using a point in the visual space, an “eye position,” to access specific areas of the midbrain and identify, process and release core sources of emotional/physical pain, trauma, dissociation, and a variety of other challenging symptoms. 

BSP was discovered by David Grand, Ph.D. in 2003. Since then, Brainspotting has developed into an in-depth therapeutic process that can be integrated with other healing modalities in either individual or couples therapy. Dr. Grand believes that “Brainspotting taps into the body’s natural self-scanning and self-healing abilities”.

BSP goal is to work at this deeper level to process through emotional and body-based conditions, strengthen resources and resilience, and create permanent neuroplastic change.

To understand Brainspotting is to understand that when you are touching something so deep in the brain, so core, so reflexive, so bodily, there is by nature an incredible sense of attunement that a client feels at a level that is beyond consciousness.

David Grand

Your brain knows how to heal.

• We will strategically utilize your visual field to access your brain’s self-scanning and self-healing properties.

The human system is self-healing.

• The only solution to the problems that you bring to therapy lie within yourself. 
• You have an innate ability to heal.
• Healing happens within the sessions and between the sessions.

The body is memory

• I will support you in identifying where you hold emotional trauma and suffering in your nervous system.
• Body based “bottom up” processing, guided by body sensations.