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 Brainspotting Practitioner
We often feel growth internally long before our lives begin to reflect it.
You might have noticed yourself making different decisions, or relating to yourself differently. You’ve been noticing old patterns more quickly, your values feel clearer. You feel more connected to your authentic self than ever, but your life doesn’t fully match your inside experience.
This is where somatic modalities like brainspotting can be particularly helpful.
What is brainspotting?
Some experiences become integrated 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 these patterns, because your system developed around them for survival.
Brainspotting uses your visual field because there's a relationship between the eyes and the brain, and where the subcortical brain is storing patterns of trauma. Finding ‘brain spots,’ in your visual field along with focused mindfulness and therapist attunement, can help facilitate emotional or somatic processing that supports healing and regulation, with long lasting neuroplastic changes in your nervous system.
Women who do brainspotting sessions with me often say that they feel lighter, more spacious and at peace internally, and excited about their lives again.
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.
What does feel difficult is bridging the gap between that inner knowing and the familiar patterns that your body has held onto.
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 aligned or helpful. 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 pathways towards 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
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