“Brainspotting is a powerful focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of other challenging symptoms” (David Grand, Ph.D.).

A “Brainspot” is the eye position that is related to the energetic/emotional activation of a traumatic or emotionally charged issue within the brain. Brainspotting therapy gets to the root cause of trauma, emotional issues and addictions. Brainspotting reaches parts of the brain that are not generally accessed in traditional talk therapy and most other types of therapy.

Brainspotting is a powerful, rapid, effective tool that focuses on the deep brain sources of many emotional and somatic (body sensations) and resolves these issues from the source.

Brainspotting therapy has roots in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) and similarly supports the reprocessing of negative experiences and retrains emotional reactions. Both approaches include bilateral stimulation, compassionate attunement and brain-body processing

What can Brainspotting help treat:

• Trauma (big or small)
• Enhancing performance and creativity/creative blocks
• Anxiety (and the underlying trauma that contributes to it)
• Depression (and the underlying trauma that contributes to it)
• Addiction
• Attachment wounds
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Complicated grief/Traumatic grief

In this video, David Grand, PhD–the discoverer and developer of Brainspotting–answers questions about what it is, how it is different from EMDR, and the issues it can be helpful for.