Discover the key to unlock emotions.
Brainspotting
A BRAIN-BODY Approach for Deep Healing and Wellness
The motto of Brainspotting is,
“Where you look affects how you feel.”
By using this cutting edge treatment, people are able to truly transform their lives to break free from the distressing symptoms of anxiety, depression, addictions, codependency, and other relational and physical problems.
What is Brainspotting?
If something is bothering you, how you feel about it changes, depending on whether your eyes look left, right, up or down. Your eyes and your brain are connected and signals sent from your eyes are processed deep within your brain.
Your brain then directs where to focus your eyes from moment to moment. Trauma can overwhelm the brain’s processing capacity leaving behind pieces of the trauma, frozen in an unprocessed state. Brainspotting helps to locate these unprocessed experiences deep within your brain, by accessing through the eyes. Your eyes can actually scan inside your brain as well as outside!
Brainspotting uses this inner scanning ability of your eyes and brain to identify an external spot in your field of vision and while you focus on it, your brain begins to naturally release and resolve the frozen pieces of your unprocessed trauma.
Combining this brain-body treatment with an empathetic presence and positive coping skills, clients find deep, permanent resolution of their symptoms, often at a faster rate than traditional talk therapies. Together, we can discover how the transformational power of therapy can help you reduce internal conflict, improve your relationships, and recover from negative beliefs and behavioral issues.
Ready to start?
At the beginning of treatment, it is recommended that you meet with your therapist weekly. Standard sessions are 55-minutes long.
The first session is an assessment and helps the therapist to better understand your needs. Following your assessment, a treatment plan will be developed based on the following information collected through a fun exploration of what's important to you, your hopes and dreams, identifying what you want to do more of, defining happiness and recognizing areas in your life that need some work.
"The body keeps the score and the eyes open the door."
— Dr. Emily Schottman