BRAINSPOTTING
Brainspotting is an option for a wide range of emotional and body based conditions. Brainspotting is particularly useful in trauma-based focus; by helping identify and possibly heal underlying trauma that contributes to anxiety. It also has applications with performance and creativity. Brainspotting facilitates the counselor with access to the brain and the body for healing.
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What is Brainspotting
How Does Brainspotting Work?
How Effective Is Brainspotting?
Who Can Benefit from Brainspotting?
What is Brainspotting?
To help an individual recover from PTSD, brainspotting incorporates vision and midbrain stimulation. A counselor uses bilateral stimulation, and a fixed visual point to activate specific areas of the brain. Clients are often asked to put on headphones that play a sound or music in alternating ears. By alternating the sides in which you hear the sound, the midbrain is bilaterally stimulated and activated. The process may seem simple, but it has profound effects on trauma processing and healing.
How Does Brainspotting Work?
According to David Grand, therapist and creator, where people look can influence how they feel. During brainspotting, a counselor help a person to position their eyes to target negative emotion sources. With the help of a pointer, trained brainspotting counselors are gradually guiding people's eyes in session using their field of vision to find the appropriate point. This process has facilitated may individuals to access deeper emotions and to target the physical effects of trauma.
Trauma is stored in the body. It changes the way our brain works. For example, trauma can affect:
- Memory
- Emotions
- Physical health
Brainspotting appears to activate the innate capacity of the body to begin healing itself of trauma.
BRAINSPOTTING
Brainspotting is when your eye position identifies a triggered emotion linked to your unconscious, stored memory.
How effective is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting treatment has helped people reprocess negative events in treatment, and retrain emotional reactions. More and more counselors and individuals utilize Brainspotting and report positive results.
Research is ongoing and available for review:
https://brainspotting.com/about-bsp/research-and-case-studies/
What to Know
Before Starting Brainspotting
At Endeavour Counseling, Brainspotting can be a valuable addition to any trauma-based counseling plan. Treatments with Brainspotting may not be ideal for everyone.
Before you start, you may consider the following:
- Discussing the focus of treatment can be painful.
- Sometimes, you have to be prepared to go to hurt places to recover.
- Make sure you are ready to experience the entire process, even if it becomes a bit rough.
- You can be overwhelmed by repressed experiences.
If you struggle with profound emotional instability, be sure your counselor is aware of it.
Who Can Benefit From Brainspotting?
Brainspotting has been shown to be an effective treatment option for many forms of trauma as well as other struggles. Here are a few of the additional focuses that Brainspotting can be used to address:
- All forms of trauma
- Specifically people with Anxiety Attention issues (ADHD)
- Anger issues
- Phobias
- Substance abuse
- Sexual Addictions
- Chronic fatigue and chronic pain
- Grief
- Anxiety