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Brainspotting Therapy in

California and Nevada

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Evidenced Based Nervous System Healing

Brainspotting Therapy

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What is Brainspotting Therapy?

“Where you look affects how you feel”- Developer and Trainer, David Grand, Ph.D

Brainspotting is an effective, gentle, holistic neuroscience brain-body somatic therapy that helps you access and heal emotional wounds stored deep in your nervous system.

Brainspotting focuses on specific “spots” in your visual field, gently unlocking unprocessed trauma and stuck emotional patterns — allowing the person to feel faster healing in a shorter amount of time.

Healing with Brainspotting does not require the person to relive or recount everything in detail.

It’s a gentle, mindful somatic method that allows your brain and body to naturally do the healing work we were designed and wired for,

helping you feel deep relief, transformation, a sense of lightness, safety, and more like yourself again.

The Brainspotting Process

2. Locate the Brainspot areas and allow for Reprocessing to occur

Gentle, guided release of stored emotional and physical pain that’s been stored in the body. Here, we are gently guided into the brain’s deeper subcortical layers — where trauma and emotional memory often live, releasing the body tension that’s been stored.

  1. Goal Setting and Focused Targeting

We will discuss what you’d like work on and find relief from on a specific issue, emotion, memory, or body sensation.

Example: “Tightness in chest, reactivity whenever I think about disappointing others, particularly my co-workers, my parents, my family.”

The Healing Occurs

3. Deep, Focused Processing

This is where the magic of our natural brain and body occur with Brainspotting. In this stage, we process the emotions, thoughts, and memories that you are wanting to heal. As the brain and body heal in it’s own intuitive way, we feel emotional, calm, intense, even surprised — as this often leads to shifts in perspective, deep relief, or new insights.

4. Integration

Once the processing is over, we check in to get grounded and integrate new perspectives and insights moving foward. Feeling lighter, clearer, and more regulated afterwards is common.

“You are Braver than you believe,

Stronger than you seem,

Smarter than you think and Loved More than you know.” -A.A. Milne

Brainspotting for Trauma, Self Esteem Anxiety, Relationship Issues

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Brainspotting healing can be used for a variety of issues:

  • Increase Performance

  • Anxiety and Self Esteem Concerns, Imposter Syndrome

  • Emotional Wounds of Criticism and Shame

  • Painful Childhood Experience

  • Racial, Sexual, Emotional, Physical Trauma

  • Clear Self Limiting Negative Beliefs

  • Depression that can feel stuck or unexplained/losing touch with ourselves

  • Grief that feels overwhelming yet struggling to be resolved

  • People pleasing that leaves you drained and resentful

  • Perfectionism that leads to burnout and never feeling “done”

  • Clarity in Relationships

  • Boundary Setting

  • Emotional reactivity, self-doubt, or numbness

  • Feeling disconnected from your body or authentic self

  • Struggles with self-care, worthiness, or belonging

  • Blocks in creativity, productivity and more

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"The most common way people give up their power

is by thinking they don't have any."

- Alice Walker

Let’s reclaim that part of you who yearns to get unstuck.

Benefits of Brainspotting May Include

( but are not limited to)

  • Healing painful childhood experiences or trauma from your past

  • Decreasing Guilt, Shame, and “Broken-ness” while increasing Compassion

  • Mend Relationship Trust Issues, Building Authentic Connections

  • Help with releasing Grief

  • Relief from negative self-beliefs & becoming less critical of yourself

  • Feel less anxious or stressed, feeling more in control of your emotions

  • Improve your self-esteem and confidence

  • Clarity in Navigating relationship issues

  • Emotional Reactivity and Trigger Sensitivities

  • More Relief and Feeling less burnt out

  • Improved Sleep and Physical Health Benefits

  • Moving on from old wounds and Into Your Next Chapter

Common FAQs on Brainspotting

    • Racial Trauma

    • Sel Esteem and Confidence

    • Stress Management

    • First Generation Pressure

    • Adjustment to Life Transitions

    • Preparation for Big Life Events

    • Caregiving Burnout

    • Creativity and Performance Anxiety

    • Relational Issues and Boundaries

  • Therapy and Brainspotting is a collaborative process in our work together. If we find that we are a good fit during the consultation process, my commitment to you and your care are my top priority.

    We take breaks and do no push past your emotional limits. It is essential that I work at. your pace to take as much time as we need and navigate these sensitive topics with care and presence.

  • Brainspotting therapy is offered in the following formats:

    • 50-minute traditional weekly sessions- in combination with talk therapy (no current availability)

    • 90-minute extended sessionsrecommended for deeper, uninterrupted neuro processing and healing

    • Brainspotting Intensives – 3-hour sessions offered in a single day or across multiple days

    Sessions are available in person or virtually, depending on your preference.

  • Absolutely. Brainspotting Therapy can be just as effective even in a virtual setting. You can engage with this form of therapy with the flexibility and support in the comforts of your home.

Let’s Get Started

Ready to take the first step? Here’s what you can expect

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Let’s Chat and Connect

Schedule a free 20 minute consultation. Let’s chat about how I can help you in therapy and what service would best fit your needs. 

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Let the Adventure Begin!

Set Goals. Face It. Feel It. Move Through It. Process core issues at the root, all at your speed.

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Level Up.

Rise with Purpose. Own Your Truth. Thrive. Embracing your Super Powers. Finally find the relief that you’ve been searching for.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
— Maya Angelou

Online Therapy in California and Nevada