What Is Brainspotting Therapy? A Powerful Tool for Trauma, Sensitivity, and Breaking Old Cycles
If you’ve ever felt like talk therapy wasn’t enough, like something deeper is trying to be seen and healed? You’re in the right place.
Many of my clients are brilliant, intuitive, creative women. They’re cycle breakers. They carry generational or cultural legacies of trauma, chronic stress, perfectionism, sensitivity, and sometimes chronic illness. And many of them feel stuck, even after doing a lot of personal work.
That’s where Brainspotting can be a game-changer.
What Is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a powerful, somatic-based therapy that helps process trauma and emotional overwhelm at the level of the subcortex (the part of your brain that stores unprocessed experience, instinct, memory, and body-based emotion.)
Rather than focusing on verbal insight alone, Brainspotting gently bypasses the “thinking brain” and accesses deeper healing pathways.
It’s not about figuring things out. It’s about letting your body lead.
Through visual and felt sense cues (often where you’re looking), we locate “brainspots,” which are precise eye positions that correlate with the storage of trauma or emotional activation in the nervous system. When we stay with that spot with attunement and presence, the brain begins to release, rewire, and integrate in ways words can’t reach.
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Who Is Brainspotting For?
I have found Brainspotting to be especially supportive for people who:
Have done talk therapy but still feel stuck
Experience emotional overwhelm, dissociation, or functional freeze
Live with chronic illness, chronic pain, or autoimmune conditions
Are highly sensitive or neurodivergent
Carry complex or developmental trauma
Are in the process of breaking intergenerational cycles
Struggle to access or trust their emotions
Want a deeper connection to their body, creativity, or inner guidance
What Happens In a Brainspotting Session?
Each session is a collaboration. You don’t have to rehash every traumatic event or “perform” healing.
We begin with a grounding practice and an intention like a memory, emotion, body sensation, or even just a stuck or anxious feeling. I help you find a brainspot, using a pointer or your natural gaze, and then we follow the thread inward.
Your nervous system leads. I attune and hold space.
You might feel emotions rise and shift. You might get images, body sensations, memories, or nothing at all. Whatever happens, your brain is processing beneath the surface. This is deeply somatic, gentle, intuitive, and often profoundly relieving.
What Kind of Results Can Brainspotting Yield?
While every journey is different, my clients often experience:
Relief from chronic anxiety, looping thoughts, or inner critic spirals
Release of long-held grief, fear, anger, or shame
A deeper, embodied sense of self-trust, groundedness, and peace
Improved emotional regulation and nervous system flexibility
Creative expansion and reconnection to desire and pleasure
Less reactivity to triggers or relational stress
Shifts in chronic pain, tension, or autoimmune flares
More peace, more clarity, more aliveness
It’s not a magic wand—but it works with the body’s innate intelligence to support real, lasting change.
Why Brainspotting Works for Sensitive, Creative, and Chronically Ill Women
When you’ve lived most of your life in survival mode—navigating trauma, chronic pain, over-functioning, or being the emotional anchor for others—it’s easy to feel like you’re “too much,” “too sensitive,” or like something is wrong.
In reality, you’ve been adapting to survive. Brainspotting meets you where language fails and the body still remembers.
This modality is especially effective for deep feelers, creatives, neurodivergent thinkers, and those with invisible wounds. It allows space for complexity, nuance, and slowness. It honors the body’s timing and intelligence, rather than forcing a linear path.
Ready to Try Brainspotting?
If you’re curious about what healing might feel like without pushing, performing, or masking—if you’re longing to feel more connected, more whole, more you—I’d love to support you.
I offer online Brainspotting sessions and longer, intensive sessions for sensitive women, creatives, and cycle breakers navigating trauma, burnout, and chronic illness.
You can learn more or schedule a free consultation here.
ways to work with me:
Online counseling and EMDR/Brainspotting for clients located in Bend, Oregon and the state of Oregon. Click here to schedule a free consultation.
Read more about my work with highly sensitive women here and Brainspotting here.
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