“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
– Joseph Campbell
Brainspotting can help. I am a certified Brainspotting practitioner and now Brainspotting consultant ready to support Brainspotting practitioners in their own work with clients. Brainspotting is a powerful somatic (body-centered), mindfulness-based relational therapy used to heal trauma, gaining clarity as well as personal growth. Brainspotting is an open, integrative model, which can be used with other treatment models and adapted to many different populations and areas of specialization. It is used with infants, adults, children and in some cases it has been shown to support anxious dogs. Brainspotting is a powerful brain-body-mindfulness-based relational therapy used for the treatment of trauma as well as personal growth and expansion.
If you have never heard of Brainspotting before, here are some informative videos that helps to explain the process:
“Where you look affects how you feel”, David Grand, PhD, founder of the Brainspotting technique.
Who Does Brainspotting work with?
Finally, here is a most recent video by a Brainspotting provider that has been very helpful to many people.
This is a beautiful explanation of how Brainspotting is helpful in doing shadow work, by a fellow Brainspotting practitioner. What is shadow work? It has been described as parts of us that have either been repressed or pushed so deep into our unconscious that we can’t readily have access to it, to heal. Therefore, clients would have a more difficult (if not impossible) time accessing it via typical talk therapy. More on this, here.
A recent therapist interviewed Dr. Grand about trauma shock and how Brainspotting can support people.
Here is the interview. You might need to scroll down the page.
Here is a journal peer-reviewed article published in the journal Medical Hypothesis in 2013 titled “Brainspotting: Recruiting the midbrain for accessing and healing sensorimotor memories of traumatic activation“.
Finally, some of my clients are wanting to know “but what exactly happens to the eye” and one’s experience with Brainspotting. Another provider in Alabama, has put together a wonderful video discussing this in detail.
If you are like me, you might want to read some recent research around Brainspotting. If so, here is a great page to get you started.
Contact me today to learn more or to schedule your Brainspotting session.