Brainspotting Therapy for Trauma, Anxiety and Performance

What is Brainspotting?

While talk therapy can be incredibly helpful, sometimes the root of our struggles lives deeper than words can reach. Brainspotting is a powerful, brain body approach that helps access and process experiences stored below the surface, much like the part of an iceberg hidden beneath the water.

A brainspot is a specific eye position connected to emotions, memories, or experiences. As the saying goes, "Where you look affects how you feel." By identifying these eye positions within the safety of a supportive therapeutic relationship, Brainspotting helps the brain naturally process and release unresolved trauma, anxiety, and emotional pain.

Unlike traditional talk therapy, which primarily engages the thinking part of the brain, Brainspotting works with the deeper areas where trauma and emotional experiences are stored. This allows for healing that often feels more profound, helping you move beyond simply understanding your experiences to truly resolving them.

What to expect during Brainspotting Therapy

During a Brainspotting session, we'll begin by bringing awareness to a specific issue, memory, or emotion you'd like to work through. I'll ask you to notice where you feel it in your body, such as your chest, stomach, or throat, and rate the intensity on a scale from 0 to 10.

Using a pointer, I'll help you identify an eye position, or "brainspot," that feels most connected to that experience. From there, you'll simply notice whatever thoughts, emotions, memories, or body sensations naturally arise while I provide a supportive, attuned space for your brain and body to process at their own pace.

Brainspotting isn't only for healing trauma. It can also help reduce performance anxiety and enhance focus for athletes, musicians, performers, public speakers, and other high achievers, allowing them to perform with greater confidence, clarity, and ease.