Therapy with Brainspotting

Brainspotting offers deep, somatic support for trauma, overwhelm and the parts of you that have carried too much, for too long.

Some experiences leave an imprint that talking, analysing, or “trying to move on” can’t quite reach.

You may sense it in your body: 

• A tight chest
• A heavy heart
• Persistent anxiety
• A numbness or restlessness that doesn’t match your present life. 

These aren’t signs of weakness, they’re signs of a nervous system that has been protecting you for a long time.

Brainspotting is a gentle, attuned therapy that can help your body process what your mind has been holding onto.

It allows us to meet the deeper layers of your emotional world with compassion, steadiness and care.

Instead of trying to think your way through healing, Brainspotting invites your system to soften, settle, and gently release what has felt stuck or unfinished.

" Traumatic events are almost impossible to put into words"

— Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk 

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.

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)
• 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.

Trauma and overwhelming experiences aren’t simply stored as stories in our minds - they’re held in the nervous system.

Brainspotting can:

• Help the body process stored survival energy
• Support emotional regulation and grounding
• Gently ease old protective patterns
• Reduce reactivity to triggers
• Deepen clarity and self-trust
• Create more internal space and steadiness

These shifts vary from person to person, but many clients describe feeling lighter and having a sense of relief after Brainspotting.

Therapy with Brainspotting may be a good fit if:

• You’ve been carrying something alone for a long time
• You sense something deeper needs attention
• You struggle to switch off the inner critic or anxiety
• You’re healing from relational trauma or childhood wounds
• You feel stuck, numb, overwhelmed or disconnected
• You find it hard to express what you feel in words
• You want a therapy that works with your body as well as your mind

If you’re working through a single traumatic event, we may also explore Rewind Therapy, a gentle memory reconsolidation method that can be helpful for specific, contained traumas.

We’ll discuss what feels right for your system in our initial call and you can find out more about Rewind Therapy here.

You don’t need to be certain.

You don’t need to be “ready.”

You don’t need to have the whole story.

You just need a space where you feel safe to begin.

Book your free 20-minute clarity call and we can explore whether this is the right support for you - without pressure.