WHAT IS BRAINSPOTTING?
BRAINSPOTTING is a powerful brain-based approach to psychotherapy that helps access unprocessed trauma in the client’s subcortical brain. Brainspotting allows the therapist to locate points (“Brainspots”) in the client’s visual field through specific eye positions around which subcortical brain activity organises. Its goal is to bypass the thinking neocortical part of the brain in order to access the deeper emotional and body-based parts of the brain. We believe that Brainspotting taps into and harnesses the body’s natural self-scanning, self-healing ability. Brainspotting is also a brain-based tool to support the therapy relationship.
Brainspotting identifies activated eye positions designated as Brainspots. Located through either one or both eyes, Brainspots are observed from either the “Inside Window” of the clients felt sense and/or the “Outside Window” of the clients’ reflexive responses (i.e., blink, eye twitches or wobbles, pupil dilation, quick breaths and subtle body shifts). Brainspotting makes use of this natural phenomenon through its use of relevant eye positions. When a “Brainspot” is stimulated, the deep brain appears to reflexively signal the therapist that the source of the problem has been found. This allows the Brainspotting therapist to locate and help the client focus, process and release a wide range of emotionally and bodily-based conditions.
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