What is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a neuroplasticity and bodymind based therapeutic modality that can assist in cultivating personal evolution, embodied psychological and embodied healing while supporting in living a life more aligned with ones desires.
Derived from EMDR (Eye movement desensitation and reintegration) and somatic experiencing, Brainspotting utilizes neuroplasticity, body awareness and optic nerve engagement (through eye placement) to access the midbrain, where emotion is stored. Brainspotting assists in creating new neural networks that assist in transforming habituated modes of operating, providing opportunities for sustained healing.
What makes brainspotting unique from other therapeutic modalities?
Brainspotting utilizes body based awareness (somatics) to identify the physical embodied location of the emotions that exist within our body. This bodymind philosophy acknowledges the profound affect that suppressed emotion can have on the body and supports in cultivating body awareness to assist in holistically healing.
Brainspotting does not require the client to necessarily verbally share what they are processing during a session. As opposed to traditional talk therapy, the client can internally process while the practitioner guides the session.
Brainspotting targets the subcorticol part of the brain where emotion is stored, providing an oppurtunity to repattern habituated modes of operating.
As opposed to traditional talk therapy that utilizes the prefrontal cortex (reasoning) parts of the brain brainspotting activates the deeper parts of the brain where trauma, emotion, the subconscious and nervous system responses are stored.
Brainspotting utilizes neuroplascticity to build new neural connections and discharge emotions and modes of operating that are no longer of service to our desired state of being
