Online Brainspotting Therapy for Trauma Processing

I offer online Brainspotting therapy throughout California for adults processing complex trauma, medical trauma, chronic stress, and overwhelming experiences.

What is Brainspotting (BSP)?

Brainspotting is a modality that uses your visual field to access and re-process trauma stored in the subcortical brain, with the goal of releasing emotional distress and restoring homeostasis around the stressor. Much like EMDR, Brainspotting is rooted in REM sleep science, and we utilize a combination of your eye movements and somatic awareness to connect to stressors and stay with them, to begin to excavate and process the harbored impacts of your lived experiences.

While you’re telling me a story of your lived experience, we’ll begin to utilize a Brainspotting pointer and eye movement to locate a spot in your visual field that connects to a strong emotional or physical reaction to what you’re discussing. Then, we hold your eye gaze on this spot as you voice what is beginning to emerge from your body and mind, to begin to disentangle, process and re-integrate the trauma stored here.

In this process, we’re leveraging the neural connections between the eyes and the brain, connecting to a place that talk therapy often can’t reach.

While Brainspotting, we often utilize bilateral stimulation in the form of sound or (tactile) tapping, which mimics the processing pattern of REM sleep, facilitating both hemispheres of the brain to work together to process trauma and stress.

The Unbroken -Rashani Rea

There is a brokenness

out of which comes the unbroken,

a shatteredness

out of which blooms the unshatterable.

There is a sorrow

beyond all grief which leads to joy

and a fragility

out of whose depths emerges strength.

There is a hollow space

too vast for words

through which we pass with each loss,

out of whose darkness

we are sanctioned into being.

There is a cry deeper than all sound

whose serrated edges cut the heart

as we break open to the place inside

which is unbreakable and whole,

while learning to sing.

I find that Brainspotting is a profound modality for those with complex PTSD, or who have survived traumas that have impacted the body such as medical trauma, birth trauma, domestic violence or sexual assault. Rather than trying to talk through what we think about the trauma, we’re accessing it through the way the body is telling us how it feels about the trauma, then we’re unraveling and process the context for those feelings, context that may have been protected and not otherwise available to the conscious mind.

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Therapy Intensives

Brainspotting intensives give us a dedicated window of time to dive deeper into processing, by scheduling longer sessions close together so we can stay with the material without losing the thread. Because the space between sessions is shorter, we don't hit the reset button each week. We stay with what's alive, follow it further, and process a new piece each time. Sessions are typically 90 minutes, and scheduled a day or two apart. This often works well for clients with C-PTSD, as we track and re-process the ways in which complex and prolonged traumatic experiences have branched out and impacted multiple areas of life. We’ll dedicate time to consistently follow the branches, until we have re-processed the bulk of what you experienced in that C-PTSD related target.

Brainspotting Intensives

Here at Soul Craft, I specialize in Brainspotting and EMDR intensives for:

Preparation for, recovery from and re-processing surgeries (Endometriosis excision, hysterectomy, mastectomy, or gender affirming surgery)
Medical event processing after adverse medical experiences, so you can feel as regulated as possible walking back into healthcare settings
Addressing the nervous system’s relationship to pelvic pain and/or sexual pain (with a focus on nervous system regulation during pelvic floor PT, especially for survivors of medical, sexual or reproductive trauma)
Processing fertility treatments, reproductive stress or traumatic loss (during IVF, IUI, FET or when fertility treatments have ended in TFMR)
Processing attachment wounds, relational rupture, betrayal or abandonment, to create a path to feeling safe in the vulnerability of partnership again
Re-processing sexual trauma to create a path for sex, intimacy and physical touch to feel safe again
Event processing for healthcare providers and first responders, to support your nervous system in returning to work after navigating a traumatic event or loss that occurred in the workplace

Is brainspotting the right fit for you?

Reach out today to learn about our virtual therapy options.