Brainspotting
Brainspotting works through the body and the deep brain by accessing the nervous system to change your emotional and behavioural responses to harmful past events and memories. It works by identifying, processing and releasing your sources of emotional and physical pain, the symptoms of which can be trauma, dissociation and depression. It can also help those with somatic and pain disorders.
Brainspotting functions as a neurobiological tool to support the clinical healing relationship. There is no replacement for a mature, nurturing therapeutic presence and the ability to engage another suffering human in a safe and trusting relationship where they feel heard, accepted and understood. This treatment gives us a tool, within this clinical relationship, to neurobiologically locate, focus, process, and release experiences and symptoms that are typically out of reach of the conscious mind and its cognitive and language capacities.
Reaching beyond the concious mind
Your therapist will use Brainspotting to find, process and release experiences and symptoms that are typically out of reach of the conscious mind and its thought and language capacities. Various eye positions are identified as ‘brain spots’ connected to negative experiences, emotions and traumas. By revisiting these events through eye movement, you are able to burrow through the layers of protection that you have created and reprocess trauma so that it ceases to produce unhealthy responses.
Discovered by Dr. David Grand, Brainspotting is a clinical offshoot of EMDR and combines Somatic Experiencing, Mindfulness and brain and body techniques. It is enhanced with Biolateral sound to increase lateral stimulation and change deep brain responses to trauma. Brainspotting has been found
to have profound psychological, emotional and physical healing results.
Brainspotting suits those who may have difficulty discussing their trauma, or even fully remembering it. It is based on the premise that we store trauma in the physical body as well as in our conscious minds, therefore it uses a more physical and neurological approach to healing.
Who can it help?
See more about brainspotting here
Brainspotting suits those who may have difficulty discussing their trauma, or even fully remembering it. It is based on the premise that we store trauma in the physical body as well as in our conscious minds, therefore it uses a more physical and neurological approach to healing.
Who can it help?
See more about brainspotting here