Live your best life
Go from surviving to thriving
How does Brainspotting therapy work?
Brainspotting is thought to target the right hemisphere, the limbic system and the brain stem (mid brain). It is believed to bypass the “thinking” cortex of your brain by directly accessing the deep parts of your brain involved in emotional regulation (amygdala).
Your eyes are connected to the vagus nerve, which goes through your brain and body, and plays a key role in your stress and relaxation responses.
​
Brainspotting uses eye positions as entry points to access information stored in the body (nervous system) and the deep brain (seat of your regulation processes).
​
Brainspotting works by directly tapping into the brain’s autonomic and limbic systems, located within the central nervous system. Because of this, it can be considered a physiological treatment, and provides physical benefits as well as psychological and emotional.
By identifying a brainspot, you target an area of focused activation in your brain, directly related to the issue you are working on. While you focus on that brainspot and notice your bodily sensations, you are able to process negative emotions to help rewire your brain to more positive associations and feelings. Brainspotting attempts to reprocess negative emotions by focusing on your body-based sensations rather than your thoughts. It’s sort of like guided mindfulness in a safe supportive therapeutic environment.
Noticing this information and observing what happens next, stimulates the natural abilities of your brain and body to regulate and heal themselves—from the inside out and the bottom up!
​
Part of the treatment can include playing Bilateral sound, which can enhance the beneficial effects of Brainspotting through it’s powerful and focused healing properties.
​
Brainspotting can be a rapid, effective type of therapy. In contrast to ongoing talk therapy, you can typically expect Brainspotting to be more short term. Some clients find their issues are resolved after just one or two Brainspotting sessions. Others find Brainspotting to be more adjunctive, and use regular talk therapy to further process and enhance progress made in a Brainspotting session. This helps the BSP therapist to locate, focus, process and release a wide range of emotionally and bodily-based conditions. It’s believed that BSP taps into, and harnesses the body’s natural self-scanning, self-healing ability.