Online Therapy in Washington State, Utah & Florida
Consulting
Helping you deepen your trust in your own intuition and capacity as a therapist.
You know when something doesn’t “feel ”right.
You wonder: what is wrong with me? I KNOW better
Brainspotting can help when you constantly question if everything is your fault or find yourself being hard on yourself in ways you never would be with someone else.
Brainspotting offers a path forward when you lose your temper and don't know how to stop, or when you find yourself experiencing multiple conflicting emotions: ashamed, offended, rejected, self-loathing, depressed, and enraged.
Perhaps you feel like you're on autopilot and wonder why you to feel so low when everything appears to be fine. You keep trying, but the motivation and passion aren’t there.
You may have tried traditional talk therapy before and felt like it was focused just on “coping”...but it just was’t enough. You’re ready to go deep and put these triggers and patterns to rest for good.
Brainspotting moves past the narrative and towards possibility.
Brainspotting can help you feel
like yourself again in the midst of:
Trauma & painful experiences
Perfectionism
Anxiety
Self-criticism & self-doubt
People-pleasing
Unhelpful relationship patterns
Reactivity
Nightmares
Imposter syndrome
Feeling “stuck”
Pain and changes in physical functioning
How it works
Where you look affects how you feel.
Brainspotting taps into the body’s natural healing abilities. When we experience something painful, our system remembers the threat to safety. Sometimes it continues to signal the alarm, even if we’ve forgotten the danger. Talk therapy reaches the parts of our brain that use language. Brainspotting allows us access to the parts that store emotions and body senses. It lets us go deeper to identify, process and repair emotional stress, and heal the root of trauma.
Just as our eyes scan our external environment for information, our eye positioning can also scan our internal environment within our brains for information. I’ll guide you to find a “spot” in your external environment that feels connected to deeply rooted information to be processed. Sometimes, we’ll use tools like bilateral music (via headphones) to enhance the process, encouraging both sides of the brain to engage in the process.
As you continue to focus on the brain spot, your brain will begin to process, heal and release the distress. You’ll start to notice feelings of more calm, clarity, and relief. You’re in control of every step of the way of this process—we trust that your brain knows what to do. My role is to be here as a guide and a safe container: a stable presence that allows your nervous system to do the hard work to heal.
In the midst of challenges like the ones you’re facing right now, it can be easy to forget that your body has an innate ability to heal. In our work together, you’ll learn to trust yourself and the process.
How we’ll work together
We’ll start with a complimentary 30-minute video consultation. Taking the first step can be scary and I want you to feel like you’re with the right person to guide you on this journey. If we decide to work together, we’ll have an in-depth intake session. This will give me an opportunity to learn more about you and your goals, answer any questions you have, and co-create a plan to track your progress throughout our work together.
You choose the format that works best for you:
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If you prefer to make progress steadily over time, we can meet on a weekly or bi-weekly basis for 50-minute sessions.
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For accelerated results, concentrated therapy in the form of intensives may be a good fit for you. Like a large dose of therapy at once, you can experience rapid relief and healing with a relatively small time investment. 1- and 2-day options available. Click here to learn more.
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If you’re already working with another therapist and finding the work there helpful, great! Brainspotting can be a powerful addition to your work by helping to break through a specific barrier or accelerate your healing as you continue working with your therapist. Adjunct therapy can occur via ongoing or intensive therapy.
why i do this work
Brainspotting allows you to go deeper to connect with your innate wisdom.
Brainspotting allows you to access and heal in a way talking alone can’t fully resolve. Your history, strengths and experiences are given space to present themselves, to make meaning, and provide greater clarity of your struggles in a way only you can understand.
Locations:
Observe with curiosity, give yourself time and space and see what happens.
discover what real relief feels like.
Frequently asked questions
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Just like you might look off into the distance to try and remember something, your eye positions are linked to different areas of your mind that store thoughts, emotions, and beliefs. In Brainspotting, we can access stored trauma or pain by fixing your eye positions on those locations.
Together, we’ll locate a “brain spot” where your challenges may be stored, and I’ll guide you through focusing on that spot. Many clients report a feeling of both conscious and subconscious release.
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Brainspotting and EMDR leverage some of the same mechanisms. However, Brainspotting tends to be more gentle, and research suggests that its effects are deeper and longer lasting than EMDR.
Brainspotting can be a good fit if you have tried EMDR and it didn’t feel like the right fit.
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While Brainspotting is a newer modality, it is classified as evidence-based and research indicates it may be more effective than Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) due to its increased precision. Patients are shown to experience continued progress even after treatment is complete.
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Either. Depending on your needs, goals, and timeline, we can do full sessions of just Brainspotting, or integrate it into talk therapy to further enhance healing and processing. We’ll discuss this as we begin our work together.
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It can. If there are traumas or painful experiences preventing effective communication and connection, Brainspotting may be a great choice for one or both partners.
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