BRAINSPOTTING THERAPY • ONLINE IN FLORIDA & SOUTH CAROLINA
Brainspotting Therapy
Sometimes understanding the pattern isn’t enough to change it.
You might know why you react the way you do,
but your body still responds like it didn’t get the memo.
Brainspotting gives us another way to work with
what’s happening beneath all that thinking.
You've learned a lot about yourself. So why do you still feel stuck?
MAYBE YOU…
✓ Understand why you struggle, but still find yourself reacting the same way.
✓ Can talk yourself through the anxiety, but your body doesn’t always seem to believe you.
✓ Have spent a lot of time talking, analyzing, and gaining insight, but still wonder, “Okay...now how do I actually change this?”
✓ Want to try something that doesn’t require you to find the perfect words for everything you’re feeling.
Insight can help you understand the pattern. But sometimes understanding isn’t enough to change it.
HOW BRAINSPOTTING WORKS
Brainspotting is a little different from just talking things through.
You’re still in control of the process. But instead of needing to explain or analyze everything, we’ll pay attention to what comes up in your thoughts, emotions, and body as we work.
What Brainspotting can look like in therapy
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You can process something without telling me every detail or turning it into a perfectly organized story. We can work with whatever is showing up, even when it’s hard to explain.
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Thoughts matter, but so do emotions, body sensations, memories, images, and whatever else your brain decides to bring into the room. You don’t have to force any of it.
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We’ll use your visual field to find a spot connected to what you’re working through. From there, you’ll notice what comes up while I stay present and help support the process.
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There’s no right thing you’re supposed to feel, remember, say, or accomplish. Sometimes a lot comes up. Sometimes it’s subtle. We work with what’s actually happening rather than trying to manufacture a breakthrough.
WHAT WE CAN WORK ON WITH BRAINSPOTTING
Reconnect
With what you actually feel, need, and want when anxiety isn’t running the whole damn show.
Regulate
Anxiety and emotional reactions that seem to take over before you can think your way through them.
Build
More trust in yourself and your ability to handle uncomfortable emotions.
Interrupt
Patterns like overthinking, reassurance-seeking, people-pleasing, and bracing for something to go wrong.
Process
Experiences that still feel emotionally charged, even when you understand what happened.
Practice
Responding differently when old triggers, fears, or relationship patterns show up.
You’ve done enough thinking about it. Let’s help you experience something different.
Brainspotting can give us another way to work with the patterns that talking alone hasn’t shifted.
Common Questions About Brainspotting
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Brainspotting can go beyond talking about why something happens. We pay attention to what comes up in your thoughts, emotions, and body, giving us another way to work with patterns that insight alone hasn’t shifted.
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Brainspotting is a therapeutic approach that uses your visual field to help access and process emotional experiences. We identify an eye position, or “brainspot,” connected to what you’re working on and allow your brain and body to process what comes up.
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No. They’re different approaches, although both can involve the connection between the brain, body, and visual field. Brainspotting tends to involve less structured processing and follows what naturally comes up for you.
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Nope. You don’t have to tell me every detail of what happened for Brainspotting to be useful. We can work with the emotions, body sensations, beliefs, or reactions connected to an experience without you having to retell the whole story.
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Yes. Brainspotting isn’t only for trauma. I may use it with anxiety, overthinking, emotional reactivity, relationship patterns, or other experiences that seem to keep showing up even when you understand them logically.
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It varies. You might notice thoughts, memories, emotions, body sensations, or periods where not much seems to be happening at all. You don’t have to force anything or perform Brainspotting “correctly.” We follow what naturally comes up.
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We’ll figure that out together. It may be worth exploring if you understand your patterns but still feel stuck in them, or if talking about something hasn’t created the change you were hoping for. You’re never required to use Brainspotting just because I offer it.
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No. Brainspotting is one tool we can use when it makes sense. Our sessions can also include talking things through, building coping skills, working on boundaries, challenging thought patterns, or whatever else supports what you’re working toward.