Brainspotting is based on the idea that where you look affects how you feel. Certain eye positions, called "brainspots," connect to where difficult experiences are held in the brain. By resting your gaze on a brainspot while noticing what comes up in your body, you give your nervous system a way to process and release distress that talking alone may not reach.
Brainspotting works with the body's own capacity to heal rather than around it. Instead of analyzing an experience or talking it through from every angle, you let your brain and body do what they're built to do: locate what's unprocessed and move it toward resolution. Many people are surprised by what surfaces, and by how much shifts without needing to explain or narrate every part of it.
The work is quiet and internal. There's no right way to do it; your only job is to notice what arises. Many people find it reaches places years of talk therapy couldn't, and it works well alongside talk therapy and EMDR.
We begin gently, grounding your body and noticing what you'd like to work with. There's no need to have the right words for it.
Together we locate the eye position that connects to what you're feeling, then simply rest your gaze there.
You follow whatever arises while I stay with you, letting your system process and release at its own pace.
Video via brainspotting.com, the official Brainspotting site. Opens on YouTube.