Brainspotting

Brainspotting

BioLateral Music Playlists

  • Spotify
  • YouTube

To listen using Spotify or YouTube, it is recommended to have one of their premium plans so that the music is not interrupted by ads. Ads are likely to disrupt your processing session.

If you would prefer to buy an album of music, The Best of BioLateral and The Best of BioLateral II can be purchased HERE.

If you have trouble accessing the music, an MP3 player with the music loaded onto it can be loaned and mailed via Priority Mail to you.

Tips for Telehealth Brainspotting

  • Have a pad of sticky notes handy
  • Bring your headphones or earbuds to session
  • Have the music queued up and ready to go
  • Have the music set on the lowest volume that you can hear
  • Make sure you don’t have to hold your computer, tablet, or phone while we work together
  • Make sure you’re in a quiet place where you can minimize noise
  • Make sure you won’t be interrupted by anyone or anything
  • Make sure that your technology is positioned so that I can see your face/eyes
  • Plan to rest your body and mind after session

How does Brainspotting work to heal trauma and distressing experiences?

Sometimes traumatic or stressful situations overwhelm our brains. For whatever reason, we’re not able to properly process the experience and the stress gets stuck in us.

This unprocessed stress and trauma gets stuck in the middle (subcortical) part of our brain and it impacts our emotions and our physical health. We may experience a range of symptoms including anxiety, feeling on-edge, trouble concentrating, irritability, sleep trouble, depression, negative self-talk, feeling disconnected, guilt/shame, and feeling unsafe.

All day long, our eyes naturally move around when we’re thinking and talking. Our eyes are part of our nervous system and send signals to our brain. Our brain tells our eyes where to look from moment to moment. The position of our eyes can connect us to information and memories in our brains.

The eye positions that can connect us to those memories also create different sensations in our bodies. We often don’t notice these bodily sensations.

Intuitively, we know what eye position can access the information in our brain that we need, but unprocessed stress and trauma is harder to reach due to where it’s stored.

Brainspotting helps us find the eye position that can unlock the unprocessed stress and trauma in our brains. Once we find the eye position and the unprocessed stress and trauma is unlocked, we quietly sit and allow our thoughts to flow while we hold the eye position. We give our brain the time it needs to process the stuck stress and let it go. Brainspotting helps us access deeper parts of the brain that traditional talk therapy can’t reach.

After a Brainspotting session, we can still remember the stressful or traumatic experience but how we feel about it has changed and our body responds to the memory differently. Instead of becoming overwhelmed or upset by the situation, it feels like something that happened in the past and it doesn’t bother us as much as it used to.