BRAINSPOTTING

Brainspotting is a treatment modality for trauma as well as mental health issues. The brain and body are connected, so when clients present with anxiety, depression or pain for example, there could also be a traumatic event that triggered these responses. Talk therapy accesses the conscious part of our brain, the neocortex, also referred 

Brainspotting is a treatment modality for trauma as well as mental health issues. The brain and body are connected, so when clients present with anxiety, depression or pain for example, there could also be a traumatic event that triggered these responses. Talk therapy accesses the conscious part of our brain, the neocortex, also referred to as the isocortex part of the brain, which is the largest part of the cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the cerebrum. By focusing on brain spots, where the client is looking during their session, the client is able to reach the subconscious, the deeper part of the brain, the subcortical cortex or referred to as the reptilian or mammalian part of the brain where the trauma is stored. Our goal is to allow you to reprocess your trauma(s) so that you can be free from negative beliefs, physiological distress and psychological pain as quickly as possible. It is a focused treatment method that works by identifying the trauma, processing the trauma, and then releasing core neuro-physiological sources of emotional and physical pain, and unhealthy coping mechanisms associated with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). 

A simple way to describe Brainspotting is if you think of your brain like a coconut…🌴

It has an outer layer and an inner layer.🥥 

Talk therapy 🗣 is what we use to access the outer layer (neocortex or isocortex part of the brain) to understand what is troubling you so you understand it better,😀 but you still don’t feel better all over. �

A simple way to describe Brainspotting is if you think of your brain like a coconut…🌴

It has an outer layer and an inner layer.🥥 

Talk therapy 🗣 is what we use to access the outer layer (neocortex or isocortex part of the brain) to understand what is troubling you so you understand it better,😀 but you still don’t feel better all over. 😰 Like the outside of a coconut, it’s super easy to access this outer layer to help understand your troubles, just by talking. 🗣 The bad news 😰 is talking therapies can’t get through to the inner layer (subcortical brain or the reptilian or mammalian part of the brain), which is where all of the emotions and body sensations connected to what is troubling you are located. 👤 It’s challenging to open a coconut unless you know an easy way to do that. Talk therapies have struggled with this for decades…How to access the inner parts of the brain and have them process the rest of what troubles us in an easy way that is effective and quick. Talking is good, 😀 but it’s not enough 😟 and sometimes it can make the person experiencing trauma feel worse if they are only utilizing talk therapy.😰 Brainspotting is this easier way to get to the deeper part of the brain (inside of the coconut🥥) quickly, simply and easily. 🥳 We need to get to the deeper part of the coconut 🥥 to be able to process where in the brain 🧠 those troubling thoughts/events are held. Brainspotting uses a very simple technique of having you first talk 🗣 briefly about what is troubling you and then your therapist asks you to notice any body sensations you are noticing as you talk.🤔 You notice that as you talk about the troubling event, your body 👤 starts to have a physical reaction (the inside layer of the coconut🥥). It can be anywhere from laughing, crying, tightness in your throat, slight pain in your head, neck or back, stomach feels sick or fluttery, heartbeat quickens, slight tightening in your chest etc. Then, along with your therapist, you find an eye position that connects to those body sensations. An eye position just means where your eyes are looking (up, down, left, right), which allows you to feel the body sensations fully. 👀 🙄 🤪😳 Astoundingly, there is an eye position that makes the body sensations feel stronger and another eye position, which will still connect you to the troubling thought/event, but with less sensation. 😅 This eye position is an easy way to (open the coconut🥥) and easily bypass that outer layer and get through to the inner layer which is where the trauma is stored. This eye position 👀 

is like a key 🗝 that easily and effortlessly opens, and holds open the troubling event file in your brain 🗝🧠 and when that happens it allows your brain’s own ability to heal itself to access the troubling event where it is held in this deeper part of your brain and rewire it so all the unpleasant thoughts, emotions, and body sensations associated with the troubling event 

can resolve completely.