Brainspotting
What is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a mindfulness-based, trauma-informed, brain-body therapy.
It was developed by psychotherapist David Grand and is based on the principle that “where you look affects how you feel.”
During a session, we use your visual field to find an eye position — or brainspot — that connects with what you are experiencing internally. This may bring awareness to a feeling, body sensation, image, thought or emotional response. Rather than needing to analyse or explain everything, Brainspotting gently brings your attention to your present-moment experience, allowing your own natural process of healing and integration to unfold.
By working with the connection between your eyes, body, brain, and your internal experience, together with the attuned presence of the practitioner, Brainspotting can help you access deeper layers of experience that may lie outside your usual conscious awareness.
What can Brainspotting help you with?
Brainspotting can offer a very effective way to to connect with what may be held beneath the surface — suppressed emotions, body sensations, memories, patterns or experiences that are difficult to put into words.
It may support you when you are experiencing:
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stress, anxiety or feeling overwhelmed
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the effects of trauma or difficult experiences
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grief, loss or life transitions
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fears, triggers or emotional reactions that feel difficult to understand
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recurring patterns that keep you feeling stuck
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emotional or physical tension and distress
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a sense of disconnection from yourself
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blocks around confidence, creativity or performance