Brainspotting
Brainspotting (BSP) is not a modality, but a Neuroexperiential approach to life with uncertainty in which Culture comes before Science. A relationally attuned, no-assumptions based, anti-oppressive therapy approach that builds effective and noticeable, neurophysiological changes. BSP accesses the circuitries inside the limbic subcortical brain and nervous system, to initiate the conscious shifts in emotional or somatic charges, and thought patterns.
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Every session is a phenomenon. You may be cued to observe sensations, emotions that arise. We locate your Brainspot, the eye positioning. From here, we collaborate through the simultaneous experiences of:
- your observations of the emerging emotional, sensorial, somatic and physiological movements inside,
- while gazing at your Brainspot,
- and my witnessing, attuning with your process.There is no right or wrong way to process as your unique body system takes lead.
It may take some getting used to, to the symbolic (less explicit) style of therapy, versus traditional talk therapy experiences. -
A Brainspot is the eye position that is related to the emotional or energetic activation of an acutely charged or traumatizing material in the limbic brain: amygdala, the hippocampus, the thalamus, through the brainstem. Maintaining that eye position, or Brainspot with the internal focus on the body’s “felt sense” around the traumatized memory and emotional charge, stimulates a deep integrating and healing process inside the brain.
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Your Brain + Body generate new neuropathways that identifies and deescalates your stress responses by activating and strengthening the vagus nerve. This welcomes free flowing processing, expressing, healing. You are able to expand on your capacity of emotional regulation, and experience noticeable changes in degrees of pain, distress or attachment to a given issue and pattern.
Where you look affects how you feel.
Kaori’s Trainings
BSP Consultant, Certified Brainspotter since 2018
Experiential learning through dyad practices and as Demo client in multiple trainings
BSP 5 with David
BSP Poets and Writers with Serene Calkin PT & Kristy Snedden LCSW
BSP Masters, David Grand PhD (demo client)
BSP Generational work and Somatic Archaeology™, Ruby Gibson PhD
BSP I, II, III, IV (all in-person)
BSP Attachment and Caregivers, Jen Delany, LPC
BSP Developmental Trauma & Attachment, Steve Sawyer LCSW
BSP Perinatal: Connecting the Rainbow, Jana Glass LPC
BSP Limbic Counter-transference, Cynthia Schwartzberg, LCSW
BSP with Expansion in Creativity and Performance, Lisa Larson LMFT
BSP & Imago: Couples Co-Regulation, Cherie Lindberg LPC
BSP with Addictions, Roby Abeles PhD
BSP Consultations with Tracy Gantlin-Monroy LPC
Brainspotting, explained by David Grand PhD
BIPOC Brainspotting, NYC 2024 John Edwards LCSW BSP trainer, me, David Grand LCSW PhD BSP Founder, Linnea Swanson LCSW BSP Trainer
Brainspotting Conference, Denver CO 2021 with David Grand