Where you look affects how you feel. Brainspotting is a powerful somatic therapeutic technique that involves the therapist following the clients' internal cues to guide them to eye positions or Brainspots, while creating a space of dual attunement. The combination of the focused mindfulness in the Brainspot, the clinical attunement and understanding that your brain will do the work when given the blueprint creates powerful exploration in the brain and body. This powerful therapy helps to connect the brain and body in exploring trauma, stress, anxiety, and emotions which are stored in the nervous system and invites the system to process and work to resolve or release.
Brainspotting does not require a lot of talking or verbal expression from the client simply the ability to allow your brain to do its thing. By introducing different Brainspots or frames we can move freely between stressors and allow your brain and body to process and release what has been stuck in your nervous system.
Brainspotting can be utilized for trauma that is stuck in the nervous system, regulation of the system, PTSD, Anxiety, burnout, substance use, medical trauma and more.
Brainspotting is a deep nervous system regulation approach which is more intuitive that other trauma focused approaches. This means that it can work for almost anyone. People who are best suited for Brainspotting are those who feel stuck in talk therapy, are looking for deeper healing, may struggle with verbalizing feelings, want to go deeper in therapy and want to connect with their bodies and regulate their nervous system.
Brainspotting does not require a lot of talking or verbal expression from the client simply the ability to allow your brain to do its thing. By introducing different spots or frames we can use this approach for deep healing.
How do I know if Brainspotting is for me?
Brainspotting can be utilized for trauma that is stuck in the nervous system, regulation of the system, PTSD, anxiety, burnout, substance use, medical trauma and more.
Brainspotting might be a fit if you're feeling stuck in talk therapy, seeking a new and creative approach, feel like you can't verbally express your feelings or traumatic memories, you feel overwhelmed but can't explain it or your emotions feel stuck in your body.
During a session we will work together to explore what you want to work on, find the location of the distress in the body and then hold a pointer in the place while we focus. There is a lot of silence in this process and it will move very slowly. We work to stay with the sensations in a curious way and follow what you and you're nervous system need. Brainspotting can have an emotional release, nervous system reset, and deep insight. After the session your brain and body will continue to process which may include insights, dreams, changes in emotions, thirst and hunger, and feel tired.
Deep Brain Reorienting is a trauma processing modality that works to targets the initial orienting and shock response that happens in the brainstem before emotional reactions including fear, trauma, shame, or anger are able to develop by focusing on the early shock layer that is stored in the brain or nervous system. This is accomplished through finding an activating stressor, locating the orientating tension, and allowing the brain and body to feel and process. Shock shows up in shakes, shivers, hollowing, electrical charges, or others and we focus on this to clear the shock from the brainstem in powerful ways. This can be powerful for trauma stored in the body and works without having to get into details or storytelling.
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 are whole body processing which help go deeper than talk therapy alone. If you feel that talk therapy is dragging, you know your patterns but can't change them, can recognize how you hold residual trauma or stress in your body than a somatic intervention is a good fit for you.
Therapy intensives are more than just long therapy sessions. These sessions which are focused on longer sets of processing, allow more time for calming and integration than a typical therapy hour and can offer the nervous system more space to work on dysregulation. Therapy intensives are designed to last longer because deeper healing can be accomplished. When you process in a traditional 50-minute therapy hour it can feel like as soon as you're to the good stuff the hour ends, this is where both 90-minute sessions and intensives can change the game. Imagine if your nervous system was able to process with watching the clock, or if you could sit in the processing for a full hour or more how much work could get done. While intensives are an investment up front, they are designed to allow deeper processing in smaller chunks of time than people typically spend in a year of weekly therapy.
We offer Brainspotting, EMDR, and Deep Brain Reorienting interventions for clients across Michigan. These interventions are proven to help clients deal with and release trauma for effective processing.
Unsure if this is a fit for you?
If you have tried counseling in the past and still feel stuck, understand your patterns but can't break them, keep doing the same thing even when you know it's not serving you but can't break out of it, if you feel like your weekly counseling is ok but its moving slower than you need it to be, are you doing everything right but not feeling relief, you're a high functioning adolescent or adult, your seeking something different in terms of healing, or your looking for a deeper experience, then somatic counseling might be the fit for you.
Both EMDR and Brainspotting are trauma-focused therapies that work in the whole body and nervous system instead of just talking about the experience. Brainspotting is based on curiousity and intuitiveness and is more somatic. EMDR is a more structured protocol which utilizes bilateral stimulation.
Not sure which modality works best for you and what your dealing with? Lets chat. I can help you explore what may work best for your nervous system and healing.
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