At Crossings Health, we offer Brainspotting as part of our commitment to helping individuals and couples move through emotional pain, trauma, and mental blocks. Whether you're seeking support through individual therapy, couples therapy, or general counseling, Brainspotting is a powerful approach that can help you access and process experiences that may be hard to reach through traditional talk therapy.
WHAT IS BRAINSPOTTING?
Brainspotting is a therapeutic technique that helps people access unprocessed trauma in the brain. It was developed by Dr. David Grand and is based on the idea that where you look affects how you feel. During a Brainspotting session, your therapist will help you identify a "brainspot"—a specific eye position that correlates with an emotionally charged issue stored deep in the brain.
It’s a body-based approach, which means it works through the nervous system rather than just the conscious mind. This can lead to deep emotional releases and long-lasting changes.
How Does Brainspotting Help Your Therapy?
In Individual Therapy
Brainspotting helps people release trauma, anxiety, grief, and stress. It’s particularly effective for:
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PTSD and unresolved trauma.
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Anxiety and panic.
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Performance blocks.
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Chronic pain and emotional overwhelm.
In individual therapy, it offers a way to process past experiences without having to talk through every detail. This can be especially helpful if you’ve struggled to explain what you’re feeling or why.
In Couples Therapy
Relationships often carry the weight of each person’s emotional history. Brainspotting can help uncover the underlying triggers behind recurring conflicts, mistrust, or emotional disconnection. When used within couples therapy, Brainspotting can:
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Improve emotional regulation during difficult conversations.
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Help partners understand each other’s reactions on a deeper level.
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Support healing from betrayal, loss, or unresolved past events.
It’s not about assigning blame. It’s about creating space for clarity, healing, and connection.
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DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT BRAINSPOTTING?
Brainspotting is a focused therapy method that identifies, processes, and releases core neurophysiological sources of emotional pain, trauma, and other challenges. It uses your field of vision to help access and release deeper emotional material.
Your therapist will help you find an eye position that is linked to an area in your brain storing emotional wounds which we call a “brainspot”. As you focus on that eye position your body and brain processes and heals damaged areas.
Yes. Brainspotting is a gentle, non-invasive therapy. You are always in control of your session. Therapists trained in this method understand how to create a safe, grounding environment.
Brainspotting has been around for 20 years and now has over 50,000 practitioners trained worldwide. It’s growing in popularity, especially among therapists working with trauma, anxiety, and performance issues. Many clients find it more effective than traditional methods because it reaches parts of the brain that talking alone often can’t.
Is Brainspotting Right for You?
If you’ve tried counseling before and still feel stuck, or if you’re looking for a deeper way to connect with yourself or your partner, Brainspotting may be worth exploring. Our trained therapists at Crossings Health offer individual therapy and couples therapy with Brainspotting as a core tool.
You don’t need to have the right words—just a willingness to begin.
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