Brainspotting
What is the Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neuro-physiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of challenging symptom.
How Does Brainspotting Work?
According to therapist and creator David Grand, the direction in which people look or gaze can affect the way they feel. During Brainspotting, therapists facilitate the process by which clients find eye positions that enable deep processing of stored trauma. Brainspotting stimulates, focuses and promotes deep processing, integrating, and healing activity within the brain, activating the body’s inherent capacity to heal itself from trauma. This appears to take place within the brain’s emotional centers at a reflexive and cellular level. It results in a de-conditioning of previously conditioned, maladaptive emotional, psychological, and somatic responses and patterns.
The Development of Brainspotting
Through his work applying somatic experiencing (SE) and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR), Grand eventually developed what he called Natural Flow EMDR, a technique that integrated these two types of therapy. Grand’s use of Natural Flow EMDR proved beneficial to some of those he was treating, and he used it as part of the trauma therapy he conducted with more than a hundred 9/11 survivors. Grand eventually developed a formal training, and today more than 8,000 therapists are trained in the Brainspotting approach, which is a fast-growing area in the field of psychology.
Who Can Benefit from Brainspotting?
Those who have experienced either physical or emotional trauma may benefit from Brainspotting. This form of therapy has been shown to be an effective treatment option for those experiencing: All forms of trauma, Anxiety, Attention issues (ADHD), Anger issues, Phobias, Substance abuse, Chronic fatigue and chronic pain, Impulse control issues, Sports performance issues.
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As a client, why choose Brainspotting?
Link to David Grand’s book:
Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change
April 1, 2013, by David Grand, Ph.D
Eryn Barrett, LMFT * White Heron Counseling
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