Brainspotting

                                           

 Where You Look Affects How You Feel

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Sometimes the most painful experiences don’t have words. They live in the body as tension, heaviness, a tightness in the chest, or a sense of being frozen. Brainspotting works directly with that body-held experience, bypassing the need to talk through or fully explain what you’re carrying.

 

Developed by Dr. David Grand in 2003, Brainspotting is based on a profound discovery: that where we direct our gaze is connected to where we hold our emotional and physiological experience in the brain. By finding the specific eye position the “brainspot” that corresponds to a stored experience, we can access and process what has been held in the deeper, subcortical brain. This is the part of the brain that operates beneath conscious thought and language, where trauma, overwhelm, and survival responses are stored.

 

In a session, I will gently guide you to find a spot in your visual field that feels connected to what you’re working through. You don’t need to narrate or explain your brain does the processing naturally, in its own way and at its own pace. My role is to hold a steady, attuned presence while your nervous system does what it already knows how to do: heal.

 

Brainspotting is particularly powerful for trauma and PTSD, anxiety and panic, grief and loss, shame and self-worth, chronic pain, performance blocks, and experiences that feel too overwhelming or wordless to access through traditional talk therapy. It works beautifully alongside both counselling and hypnotherapy, and sessions can be tailored to integrate all three approaches depending on what you need.

You don’t have to relive your story to heal from it. Brainspotting offers a way through that is gentle, deep, and remarkably effective. 

 

​      Contact me today to start your Journey.

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