Brainspotting
Some experiences leave an imprint that talking, analysing, or simply trying to move on can't fully reach.
You might sense it: a persistent tension in your body, an anxiety that doesn't match your present life, patterns you've understood for years but still can't shift. Or a quietness where something used to be.
This isn't a failure of insight or effort. It's where those experiences are stored — not just in memory, but in the nervous system, in the body, in the parts of you that learned to stay watchful long after the danger passed.
Brainspotting works at that level. Not by talking around the experience, but by accessing where it actually lives — and allowing the system to process and release it, often in ways that years of talking alone haven't managed.
" Traumatic events are almost impossible to put into words"
— Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk
What Is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a trauma-focused therapy approach that works with the principle that:
Where you look affects how you feel.
By finding a specific eye position linked to tension, emotion or sensation in your body, Brainspotting can help access the areas of the brain involved in trauma, memory and emotional regulation.
- You don’t need to retell the story.
- You don’t need to relive what happened.
- You don’t need to force anything to happen.
Your body leads the way and I support you with attunement, presence, and steadiness.
What Can Brainspotting Support?
People have therapy with Brainspotting for many reasons — often when they know something deeper is happening beneath their thoughts, impacting them on many different levels.
Brainspotting may be especially helpful if you’re navigating:
- Single-event trauma (accidents, shocks, medical events, loss)
- Unresolved childhood trauma
- Emotional neglect or attachment wounds
- Recovery after narcissistic abuse or betrayal trauma
- Anxiety, chronic overthinking or internal pressure
- Body-based symptoms of stress (tightness, fatigue, shutdown)
- Nightmares or unsettling recurring dreams
- People-pleasing, perfectionism and fawning responses
- Persistent self-doubt or feeling “not enough”
- Creative or emotional blocks
- Freeze states, overwhelm or difficulty staying present
If you’ve tried talking therapy and still feel a quiet ache, a stuckness, or patterns you can’t shift, Brainspotting may offer a deeper somatic pathway forward.
Is Brainspotting Right For You?
If you've been carrying something for a long time — and especially if you've tried other approaches and something still hasn't fully shifted — Brainspotting may offer a pathway that goes deeper.
We begin with an initial consultation where we'll explore what you're experiencing and decide together what kind of support feels most appropriate, and whether that will involve individual sessions or an intensive.
You don't need to find the right words to describe what you're experiencing. You don't need to have a diagnosis. You just need to sense that something in you is ready to try something different.