26/11/2025
Brainspotting is a fascinating and emerging therapeutic technique that blends neuroscience with trauma healing.
What Is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a powerful therapy that helps people process trauma, emotional pain, and stress by using specific eye positions to access deeper parts of the brain.
Developed by Dr. David Grand in 2003, it’s based on the idea that by guiding your gaze to a “brainspot”—a fixed point in your visual field—your therapist helps you tap into the subcortical brain, which governs emotions, memory, and body regulation.
How It Works:
- The therapist helps you locate a brainspot connected to a experience.
- You focus on that spot while staying mindful of body sensations and emotions.
- This allows the brain to process and release without needing to relive it.
- It’s considered a “bottom-up” therapy, working through the body and nervous system rather than just talk-based methods.
What It Can Help With:
- PTSD and trauma
- Anxiety and depression
- Chronic stress
- Emotional regulation
- Somatic symptoms (like tension or pain linked to emotional distress)
Brainspotting is gentle, focused, and deeply intuitive. It’s part of a growing movement of therapies that honor the brain-body connection and support healing from the inside out.
Curious to learn more or explore how it complements other therapies?
DM me! I am here to help guide brainspotting for body/mind release. For more complex PTSD and sensitive cases I will refer you on to a therapist more experienced in this field.
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