Brainspotting Therapy in Littleton & Throughout Colorado
Brainspotting
Sometimes you can understand something really well and still feel stuck. You may know where a pattern came from, understand why you react the way you do, or have talked about something many times, but still find yourself feeling the same way.
Brainspotting is a body-based therapy approach that offers another way to work with these experiences. Instead of relying only on talking and thinking, we pay attention to what your mind and body are experiencing and use your visual field to support deeper emotional processing.
What is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a body-based therapy approach that uses your visual field and awareness of your body to help process difficult emotions, experiences, and patterns. It was developed by Dr. David Grand and can be used to work with anxiety, trauma, emotional overwhelm, relational stress, and experiences that still feel unresolved.
During a session, we find a brainspot and pay attention to what comes up as you stay with that point. You may notice emotions, thoughts, memories, or physical sensations. You don’t have to force anything or figure it all out. I’ll stay attuned to you and help you notice what is happening.
How can Brainspotting help?
Brainspotting can be helpful when you feel stuck in certain emotional patterns, even when you understand them logically. It may also be helpful with anxiety, overwhelm, trauma, stress, and experiences that continue to affect you.
If you tend to overthink, rationalize, or intellectualize, Brainspotting can offer a way to work with what you’re experiencing beyond just talking about it. We’ll pay attention to both your mind and body and work through what comes up at a pace that feels manageable for you.
questions you may have
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Brainspotting may be helpful when you feel stuck with something you understand logically but still struggle with emotionally or physically. I use it with adults experiencing anxiety, childhood wounds, birth trauma, relational stress, grief and loss, emotional overwhelm, low self-worth, and difficult or distressing experiences.
Brainspotting may be helpful for people experiencing:
Childhood wounds
Anxiety & phobias
Birth trauma
Relational stress
Difficult or distressing experiences
Grief & loss
Emotional overwhelm
Low self-worth & self-doubt
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Brainspotting is different from traditional talk therapy. Rather than focusing only on talking through an experience, it uses your visual field and awareness of your body to support deeper emotional processing and a stronger mind body connection.
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A Brainspotting session is collaborative and there is no right or wrong way to do it. We’ll identify what you’d like to work on, use a specific point in your visual field, and pay attention to what you notice in your thoughts, emotions, and body.
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Yes. Brainspotting can be helpful for working through traumatic or difficult experiences, especially when something still feels stuck. It can give us a way to work through experiences that are harder to talk about and go beyond talk therapy. This might include childhood wounds, birth trauma, relationship experiences, or other experiences that still bring up strong emotions or reactions in your body.
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There is no right or wrong way to do Brainspotting. You don't need to know what you're supposed to notice or have a certain experience. I'll guide you through the process, and we'll pay attention to whatever comes up for you. You may notice thoughts, emotions, memories, physical sensations, or very little at first. All of that is okay.
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I offer Brainspotting therapy in my Littleton, Colorado office and virtually throughout Colorado.
If you have a question that I haven’t answered yet, please reach out!