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Listen to Dr. David Grand explain Brainspotting.
 “Brainspotting stimulates and promotes deep processing, integrating, and healing activity within the brain. This appears to take place within the brain’s emotional centers at a reflexive and cellular level. It typically results in a de-conditioning of previously conditioned, maladaptive emotional, psychological, and somatic responses and patterns. It appears to stimulate, focus, and activate the body’s inherent capacity to heal itself from trauma.

It is theorized that this rapid-acting therapy taps into and activates the body’s innate ability to process and release “traumatic capsules” which are frozen in primitive survival modes. This may also explain the ability of Brainspotting to often reduce and sometimes eliminate the pain, struggle, and tension associated with physical/medical conditions. The technique   processes and dismantles the symptom, the underlying trauma, the somatic distress, and the dysfunctional beliefs at the reflexive core.

Brainspotting is also very useful to access and develop internal resource states and experiences. These resources allow the therapist and client, where necessary, to “pendulate” between resource or positive states and trauma states during Brainspotting to enable more gradual, graded processing and desensitization of intensely traumatic and emotionally charged issues and symptoms.” Lisa Schwarz, M.Ed, Brainspotting Trainer 

As a Level II trained EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) therapist, I utilize this revolutionary treatment to relieve many types of psychological distress. I work with my clients in learning how to reduce/manage their overwhelming emotions and then, begin the healing process of trauma or post traumatic stress disorder.  "EMDR facilitates the accessing and processing of traumatic memories to bring these to an adaptive resolution. After successful treatment with EMDR, affective distress is relieved, negative beliefs are reformulated, and physiological arousal is reduced." 

Visit
http://emdria.org or www.emdr.com to learn more about EMDR and the benefits of this therapeutic process.