Brainspotting

Brainspotting is therapy modality where in we use awareness of body sensations while finding a

visual spot to look at that either increases or decreases the emotion we are working on

processing. In a typical brainspotting session the client chooses an emotionally activating

memory/topic that they want to more fully process through. Next the therapist coaches client to

mindfully enter into some level of awareness of the corresponding body sensation while a point

in the visual field is found to process from.

The developer of brainspotting was previously trained in EMDR and through his work with a

high preforming athelete he discovered that processing can happen not only when moving the

eyes side to side (as is done in EMDR processing) people can also process when they find a

certain spot in their visual field.

If you want to learn more about this type of therapy check out one or both of the below

resources: