Brainspotting
The eyes are portals, guiding us beneath conscious thought into the body’s innate capacity to heal.
Online Brainspotting Therapy for Women in Oregon
erica barton, LpC, certified breainspotting practitioner
we often grow internally long before our lives begin to reflect it.
You begin making different decisions, start relating to yourself differently. You notice old patterns more quickly, Your values become clearer. You’ve become someone on the inside that your life no longer fuller reflects back to you.
yet you still feel stuck, unable to move forward as the person you're becoming.
this is where modalities like brainspotting can be particularly helpful.
What is brainspotting?
There are experiences that become woven into the way we move through the world, the way our bodies orient toward safety and danger, possibility and risk. You can't always think your way out of those because they weren't learned through thinking in the first place.
Brainspotting uses your visual field because there's a relationship between the eyes and the brain, and where the nervous system is storing patterns of trauma.
It allows the body and brain to lead the healing process beyond analytical thought, supporting deep processing, regulation, and integration at a pace that honors your system’s wisdom.
Who is brainspotting for?
I often find myself suggesting Brainspotting when someone has reached a point where understanding isn't the part that feels difficult anymore.
You know yourself well. You've spent time reflecting, growing, and making sense of your experiences. You can see the ways you've changed over the years, and you have a pretty clear sense of the life you're moving toward.
What feels harder is closing the gap between that inner knowing and the way you're actually living.
Sometimes that shows up as feeling unexpectedly stuck when you're ready to make a change, or returning to old patterns that no longer feel like they belong to you. Perhaps there’s a sense that there's still something unresolved beneath the surface, even though you've already done a great deal of work.
Brainspotting can offer a different way to open other pathways forward as the self you’re becoming while making peace with where you have been.
Many of the women I work with are not only healing personal experiences. They are also untangling inherited patterns around worthiness, responsibility, belonging, visibility, caregiving, and self sacrifice. They are questioning stories that have been passed through families, communities, and generations of women before them.
While we can't always trace where a pattern began, we can often feel its presence: The pressure to make sure everyone is comfortable, staying in situations that no longer fit, The fear of taking up space or using your voice.
Brainspotting can help us work with these deeper layers, not only through understanding them intellectually, but through allowing the nervous system to process and reorganize the experiences and adaptations that continue to shape your life.
IF you’re still curious, watch the video below about brainspotting.
Extended Sessions Available
Some healing work needs more space.
For clients who want to go deeper without rushing, I offer extended Brainspotting sessions: available in 90-minute or 2-hour formats.
These longer sessions allow for spacious processing, especially helpful when working with grief, trauma, emotional overwhelm, or moments in life where you feel especially stuck.
Extended sessions are also ideal if you want to focus on a specific issue, or simply need more time to fully settle and integrate.
Available virtually.
What is the cost of extended sessions?
60 minute sessions: $225
90 minute sessions: $330
2 hour sessions: $450