"Brainspotting is a powerful, focused, brain-based treatment method that identifies, processes, and releases core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and other challenging symptoms."
--David Grand, PhD
The motto of brainspotting is, "Where you look affects how you feel." Our eyes and brains are intricately woven together, and sights seen from the eyes are deeply processed in the brain, which then refelxively and intuitively redirects where we look. Trauma can overwhelm the brains processing capacity, leaving behind pieces of the trauma, frozen in an unprocessed state. Brainspotting uses our field of vision to find the specific location where we hold these traumas in the subcortical brain. It then allows deep processing to release and resolve the trauma.
Brainspotting can be an efficient and effective tool for: