A focussed treatment for releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, and other challenging symptoms. Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of other challenging symptoms. Brainspotting is a simultaneous form of diagnosis and treatment, enhanced with Biolateral sound, which is deep, direct, and powerful yet focused and containing.
Brainspotting functions as a neurobiological tool to support the clinical healing relationship. There is no replacement for a mature, nurturing therapeutic presence and the ability to engage another suffering human in a safe and trusting relationship where they feel heard, accepted, and understood. Brainspotting gives us a tool, within this clinical relationship, to neurobiologically locate, focus, process, and release experiences and symptoms that are typically out of reach of the conscious mind and its cognitive and language capacity.
Brainspotting works with the deep brain and the body through its direct access to the autonomic and limbic systems within the body’s central nervous system. Brainspotting is accordingly a physiological tool/treatment which has profound psychological, emotional, and physical consequences. For more info see www.brainspotting.com
Sometimes, habit replaces heart. The left-brain mastery you’ve worked so hard to cultivate begins to overshadow the presence, attunement, and quiet trust in what unfolds beyond the measurable.
Welcome to Brainspotting.
Not just a method, but a threshold. A place where therapy becomes less about doing and more about being, where presence is the medicine, and the healing unfolds from within.
Brainspotting is rooted in neuroscience and the natural healing capacities of the brain-body system. Developed by Dr. David Grand, it is based on the discovery that where we look affects how we feel, and that the eyes can access deep, subcortical processes beyond words.
When a person holds a gaze on a “brainspot” - a precise eye position connected to an unresolved issue - activity increases in the brain's midbrain, limbic system, and brainstem. These are the areas responsible for regulation, survival, and trauma storage. Unlike cognitive approaches that rely on the neocortex (thinking brain), Brainspotting accesses the deeper layers of experience where trauma is held, and healing naturally unfolds.
Functional MRI studies have shown that trauma disrupts the default mode network and activates the amygdala and insula, impairing self-awareness and regulation. Brainspotting, through relational attunement and neurobiological anchoring, supports re-regulation of the autonomic nervous system and enhances neuroplasticity, allowing integration without the need for re-traumatisation.