Brainspotting
David Grande, PhD, developed Brainspotting (BSP) in 2003. David states, “BSP is a new psychotherapy approach that theorizes that the field of vision can be used to locate eye positions that correlate with relevance to inner neural and emotional experience. After they are located, these eye positions, or Brainspots, may, through maintaining eye fixation, lead to healing and resolution of issues that are held deeply in the non-verbal, non-cognitive areas of one's neurophysiology.
BSP utilizes both focused activation and focused mindfulness as its mode of operation. It aims at a full, comprehensive discharge of activation (emotional distress) held in the brain and body.”
Brainspotting Therapist
Meet Heidi
I am a Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker and completed Phases I & II training in Brainspotting.
I am most drawn to experiential therapies that view individuals, couples, and families through the lens of attachment.
In both individual and couples work, I use emotions as the road map for therapy and attachment needs as the key to the map. Wherever you may be today, I am honored to accompany you as you move toward connecting deeply with yourself and with the most important people in your life.
Benefits of Brainspotting
People typically respond to traumatic experiences through primitive fight, flight or freeze instinct. BSP allows clients to significantly reduce and eliminate the tension and hyper-arousal associated with these survival instincts. Clients can look forward to integrating healing on emotional, somatic, psychological, spiritual and even physical levels.
BSP functions as a neurobiological tool that allows the release of experiences and symptoms that are typically out of reach of the conscious mind and cognitive language capacity. BSP works with direct access to the autonomic and limbic systems within the body’s central nervous system. BSP is accordingly a physiological tool/treatment, which has profound psychological, emotional and physical benefits.
(Adapted from the Brainspotting Consent form)
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