Brief Brainspotting Explanation. 

Brainspotting is a gentle, brain-based therapy that helps people process emotional pain, trauma, anxiety, and stress that can become “stuck” in the body and nervous system. When something overwhelming happens, the brain does not always have the chance to fully process it in the moment. Instead, those experiences can remain stored in deeper, more automatic parts of the brain, continuing to affect how you feel, react, or cope long after the event has passed. As Brainspotting founder David Grand explains, “Trauma is not stored in words, but in sensations and experiences.”

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In Brainspotting, your therapist helps you find a specific eye position, called a brainspot, that connects to where that experience is held in the brain and body. By holding that eye position while staying present and supported, your brain is able to naturally process and release what has been stuck. You do not need to talk through every detail for healing to occur. As David Grand often says, “Where you look affects how you feel,” and Brainspotting uses this connection to allow the brain’s natural self-healing abilities to do the work in a focused, regulated, and effective way.