What is Brainspotting?

Written By Sarah Snyder

As of August 2024, I am now officially a Certified Brainspotting Practitioner after completing Phase 1, Phase 2, and Expansion trainings with Lisa Larsen from Pacific Trauma Brainspotting and after completing my 50+ hours under supervision with my colleague and dear friend, Rachel Piano-Pooley.


Brainspotting has 100% percent changed my therapy and coaching practices in the most incredible ways. For those who are unfamiliar with this life changing trauma modality, read below to learn more.


Brainspotting is a cutting edge somatic modality, which emerged from EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), and uses focused mindfulness to explore, desensitize, and reprocess unconscious stress and trauma.


Brainspotting integrates neuroscience with intuition to facilitate deep healing of trauma patterns, areas of “stuckness”, emotional dysregulation, and limiting beliefs, while also facilitating emotional expansion, through targeting the unconscious and somatic body. Through this intuitive modality, clients are able to gain access to unconscious thoughts, feelings, memories, nervous system stress responses, and mind/body patterns, which yields healing of body, mind, and soul, as well as expansion of positive emotions such as joy, gratitude, and self-compassion.


Brainspotting is based on the principle that where you look affects how you feel. Through finding and using focused mindfulness on specific brainspots, which are points of activation, expansion, resource/safety in the visual field, clients are able to rapidly heal their body, mind, and soul to move from a state of emotional dysregulation to regulation in less than 6-12 brainspotting sessions.


Clients who have been working with me on deep rooted issues are now healing in leaps and bounds thanks to the rapid healing they are experiencing through brainspotting.


One client healed guilt from a parent that she had been carrying for decades within ONE brainspotting session.


Another client was able to heal addiction issues, which were rooted in childhood trauma, over a series of brainspotting sessions.


A third client healed from significant loss and reconnected to her sense of purpose and meaning through expansion brainspotting, which is a wildly profound form of mindfulness that literally connects you with your highest, most expansive joy filled self.


I could literally go on and on and on. My client wins are truly astronomical with this modality.


If you are feeling stuck in unhealthy patterns or are longing to feel more connected to your highest, most expansive, vibrant elite self (where your body, mind, heart, and soul feel deeply authentic, purposeful, and expansive), Brainspotting Intensive Packages are available. Please schedule a FREE 20 minute consultation call to see how this modality can support your healing and growth.

Sarah Snyder
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