What is Brainspotting?

Something has been bothering you for months, years, or even your whole life and you feel like you should be “over it” already. Your family and friends encourage you to move on, and think positive. You try to read self help books to make sense of it, but nothing works. Brainspotting skips through all those things you know don't work, and gets right down to business (of your brain).

How Does Brainspotting Work?

Brainspotting is a special type of therapy that is focused on bypassing the "thinking" part of our brain, to access the deeper emotional and body-based parts of the brain.  Brainspotting can help with those who:
  • Struggle with anxiety, depression, or the impacts of trauma
  • Are going through grief or loss
  • Have anxiety about performances (ie. presentations, sports events, stage fright)
  • Simply dont feel good about where they are at in their lives.
When we experience something negative or traumatic, the connections in our brains are impacted and change the way we function. Brainspotting will help you access your own healing process, to rewire your brain connections, healing what once were emotional wounds that used to take over your mind. This process allows for new ways of thinking, more insight, and new way of showing up in the world. 
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Brainspotting therapy in Walnut Creek

What Happens in a Brainspotting session?

Because we aren't using the "thinking" brain too much in Brainspotting, there isnt as much talking as you'd expect in therapy. Instead, you use your eyes. The eyes are connected to the part of the brain the accesses feelings, which is connected to the body based parts of the brain. 

I'll help you find a “brainspot” using a pointer, and you report the emotions or body sensations that come up when you think about what's bothering you. (Sometimes other tools like music or goggles are used to enhance the process too.) You’ll be asked to focus your eyes on that brainspot, allowing your brain and body do whatever it wants or needs while focusing on the brainspot. All you have to do is notice what's happening. Depending on what your working on, you'll begin to feel less activation, have more clarity, and feel better. 

Your brain knows what to do to heal itself, and there’s no more powerful feeling than the healing that comes right from within, from you.

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Therapist in Walnut Creek, CA: Vanessa Solis, LCSW

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