What your eyes hold, your body remembers.
Brainspotting is an EMDR-adjacent, brain-body modality and precision brain-based therapy that locates, processes, and releases trauma stored deep in the nervous system.
Beyond where words can go.
Developed by Dr. David Grand in 2003, Brainspotting operates on a simple but powerful premise: where you look affects how you feel. By identifying specific eye positions that correspond to areas of neural activation, a trained therapist can help you access and process experiences that are stored in the deeper, subcortical brain — below the reach of conscious thought and traditional talk therapy.
This matters because trauma doesn’t live in your thoughts. It lives in your body. In the tension you carry in your chest. In the way your jaw tightens when you hear a certain tone of voice. In the flooding that comes out of nowhere.
Brainspotting works with the brain’s natural capacity to heal — and it can move things that have been stuck for years.
As a bottom-up approach, Brainspotting works through the nervous system and body-based processing, not only through conscious thought. For many clients, this can reach material that top-down approaches like CBT may help explain but cannot always fully access on their own.
Some Brainspotting research and practitioner reports cite effectiveness rates up to 80% in helping individuals process trauma and emotional distress, compared with lower response rates often associated with traditional CBT approaches alone. Results vary by client, goals, history, and clinical fit.
Brainspotting resources.
Works below conscious thought
Accesses the subcortical brain where trauma, fear, and emotional memory are stored — without requiring you to narrate or relive the experience.
Precision-based processing
Eye positions are identified through felt-sense body awareness, giving the therapist a precise “brainspot” that correlates with stored neural activation.
Often faster than traditional therapy
Many clients experience meaningful shifts in fewer sessions than conventional talk therapy, especially for trauma that has resisted other approaches.
Brainspotting is particularly effective for:
- Trauma and PTSD, including complex and developmental trauma
- Anxiety and phobias that haven’t responded to talk therapy
- Performance anxiety and blocks
- Chronic pain and medical trauma
- Grief and loss
- Anger and emotional dysregulation
- Attachment wounds and early childhood experiences
A Brainspotting session with Roma.
Sessions typically begin with a brief check-in and identifying what we’re working on. Roma will then guide you to tune into a specific body sensation related to the issue, and work with your eye position to locate the brainspot.
You’ll process in stillness, with Roma holding what’s called a dual attunement frame: present with both your brain and your body through the experience.
Some people experience intense emotion. Some experience physical sensations. Some experience a quiet, gradual shift. All responses are valid.
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