Virtual Brainspotting Therapy | Michigan & South Carolina

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Stop overthinking your trauma. Start noticing what your body is doing.

You can understand your entire history and still feel your body react before your brain has caught up.

A tight chest. A sudden wave of panic. Rage that seems to come from nowhere. A sinking feeling before you even know what you are responding to.

Brainspotting uses visual focus and body awareness to explore those responses. It may offer another way into experiences that are difficult to access through words alone.

No endless storytelling required. No gold star for explaining your pain perfectly. And no promise that one modality is going to magically solve your life. Zero clinical fluff.

Brainspotting may be used to explore trauma-related experiences, anxiety, burnout, substance use, medical trauma, and other concerns when it is clinically appropriate.

Brainspotting might be a fit if:

• You are feeling stuck in talk therapy and seeking a new, creative approach.
• You feel chronically overwhelmed but can't explain it, or your emotions feel stuck in your body.
• You understand your patterns but can't seem to break them.
• You're a high-functioning adult or adolescent and feel like you're barely holding it together.

We start with what you want to explore. You may notice where distress shows up in your body, use a visual point of focus, and pay attention to what changes—or does not change—as we stay curious.

There may be silence. There may be emotion. There may be nothing dramatic at all. The work can be slow, subtle, weird, uncomfortable, or unexpectedly useful.

You might leave feeling tired, thoughtful, emotionally stirred up, hungry, thirsty, or completely normal. There is no required post-session experience.

Some people notice emotions, sensations, memories, images, or insights during or after a session. Others notice very little right away. We pay attention to your experience rather than forcing a particular result.

After the session, your brain and body will continue to process, which may include insights, dreams, shifts in emotion, or feeling physically tired, hungry, and thirsty.

Therapy intensives are more than just long therapy sessions. These sessions, which focus on longer sets of processing, allow more time for calming and integration than a typical therapy hour and offer the nervous system more space to work through dysregulation.

Longer sessions create more room for pacing, breaks, reflection, and integration. When you process in a traditional 50-minute therapy hour, it can feel like as soon as you get to the good stuff, the hour ends. This is where 90-minute sessions and intensives offer a different structure: more time to drop in without rushing.

Imagine if your nervous system was able to process without watching the clock. What might you notice when there is room to pause, reflect, and sit in the work for a full hour or more instead of ending abruptly because time ran out?

Somatic therapy is a bottom-up, whole-body approach that works for trauma, anxiety, substance use, depression, medical trauma, and several other conditions. EMDR, Brainspotting, and DBR may include attention to body experience in addition to thoughts, language, and meaning-making. They are different approaches and are not automatically better than talk therapy. If you feel that talk therapy is dragging, you know your patterns but can't change them, or can recognize how you hold residual trauma or stress in your body, then a somatic intervention might be a good fit for you.

We offer Brainspotting, EMDR, and Deep Brain Reorienting interventions for clients across Michigan and South Carolina. EMDR, Brainspotting, and DBR are different approaches with different levels and types of research, training, and clinical use. We can discuss what is known about each approach, what you are hoping to address, and whether one may be appropriate for you.

Unsure if this is a fit for you?

Somatic counseling might be a fit for you if:

• You have tried counseling in the past and still feel stuck.
• You understand your patterns but can't seem to break them.
• You keep repeating the same habits even when you know they aren't serving you.
• Your weekly counseling feels fine, but it's moving slower than you need.
• You are doing everything right, but still feeling stuck. 
• You are a high-functioning adolescent or adult seeking something different in your healing.
• You are looking for a deeper, more active experience.

While EMDR, Brainspotting, and Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) all target subcortical processing and body-held stress, they access the nervous system differently:

• EMDR: Follows a structured protocol using bilateral stimulation (eye movements, taps, or tones) to reprocess specific trauma memories and belief patterns.
• Brainspotting: Uses held visual points and body awareness to access and process stored subcortical tension without needing strict protocols.
• Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR): Operates deeper at the brainstem level to clear initial shock, threat responses, and attachment trauma right where the body registers them before feelings or thoughts take over.

Neither is automatically better—the right entry point depends on your history, preferences, and how your nervous system responds.

Not sure which modality works best for you and what you're dealing with?  Let's chat.  I can help you explore what may work best for your nervous system and healing.