Brainspotting – An innovative approach to trauma, intense emotions, pain and other blocks to personal growth.

Austin Brainspotting Counseling

Feeling stuck or unable to break through a particular emotional or physical experience could mean your brain has become overwhelmed somewhere along the way, leaving memories or emotions frozen in its deepest parts – interrupted and unresolved.

In Brainspotting, we work together to locate an eye position relevant to the issues you are focused on, and I help you to mindfully witness your brain and body’s inner process – promoting deep resolution and relief from what’s been holding you back.

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Brainspotting can be helpful if you wish to release the effects of trauma and other blocks to your personal growth, including:

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Relational issues
  • Addiction
  • Flashbacks
  • Panic attacks
  • Feeling stuck or blocked
  • Unresolved grief or loss
  • Psychosomatic symptoms
  • Sleep problems
  • Pain

Sometimes Talk Therapy is not Enough

David Grand, PhD, created Brainspotting.  Grand, a Master Trainer and Practitioner in EMDR (a widely used trauma treatment), realized that by combining the strengths of brain-based and talk therapies, Brainspotting could effectively address issues that talk therapy alone can take years to heal.

He also noticed that recipients of Brainspotting often experience it as a gentler alternative to EMDR – particularly in cases of complex trauma or high sensitivity.

  • Brainspotting can be integrated into any form of therapy.
  • It can also be used to enhance or explore Creativity, Spirituality and Performance.

Brainspotting goes beyond the mind to gain direct access to the brain...[allowing] us to harness the brain's natural ability for self-scanning . . . so we can activate, locate, and process the sources of trauma and distress in the body.

David Grand, PhDDeveloper of Brainspotting

By using these windows to inner mental states, many traumas and symptoms can be rapidly relieved.

Norman Doidge, MD, FRCPCAuthor of "The Brain That Changes Itself"

The motto of Brainspotting is "Where you look affects how you feel."

David Grand, PhDDeveloper of Brainspotting