Brainspotting is a brain-body approach that helps you access and process unresolved emotional experiences by identifying specific eye positions linked the body’s stored responses, connected to deep regions of the brain. The core principle is that “where you look affects how you feel,” meaning certain visual points can open pathways to emotional material held beneath conscious awareness.
During a session, I will help you locate “brainspots”—points in your visual field associated with unresolved feelings or trauma, and provide support so that your nervous system can process and release what has been held beneath the surface. Rather than requiring you to explain or analyze every detail, the process allows you to notice what emerges, allowing the body’s natural processing mechanisms to guide insight, regulation, and relief without requiring you to relive traumatic memories in detail.
For some people, Brainspotting may help:
• Access experiences that are difficult to put into words
• Notice where activation is held or experienced in the body
• Work with reactions that continue despite intellectual understanding
• Process associations connected to a particular fear, trigger or pattern
• Increase the ability to remain present with emotion without becoming completely overtaken by it
• Support a greater sense of internal space, clarity and flexibility
Brainspotting is not about forcing your nervous system to relax or pushing you to revisit experiences before you are ready. The work is paced collaboratively, with attention to your capacity, stability and sense of choice.
You remain in control throughout the process.
“Brainspotting is a natural extension of the brain’s capacity to heal itself.”
— David Grand, PhD