Brainspotting is a trauma therapy widely used around the world.

Traumatic experiences tend to overwhelm the brain’s processing

leaving pieces of the unprocessed traumatic events frozen in time

in capsule-like form in the brain. As a result, this physiological

dysregulation occurs in the nervous system and for some people

may take the form of flashbacks, disrupted sleep, and increased

anxiety.

Brainspotting is a therapy that accesses the unprocessed

traumatic experiences by bringing about greater physiological

regulation in the body and the brain. This helps to decrease the

intensity of the impact of the traumatic memories and to process

the traumatic memory.

Brainspotting therapy uses an eye position in the visual field that

links with a spot in the brain that holds the traumatic experience as

an unprocessed memory.

This shift removes the intensity of the trauma memory, allowing

the person to react in the moment without the past interfering and

taking over.