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What is Brainspotting?

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Brainspotting is a revolutionary new trauma processing tool. It is based on the latest neuroscience available and is one of the newer treatments for PTSD. Trauma activates our bodies making us feel, angry or scared before we can intellectually understand why.  Brainspotting allows patients release the physical symptoms of anxiety and trauma that effect their thoughts and behaviors.  

 

In a Brainspotting session a therapist holds a pointer that and looks for an eye position that a patient's brain associates with a part of a traumatic event. Often this is the eye position where a patient was looking during a traumatic event. Brainspotting works faster and processes the effect of trauma, especially somatic reactions to trauma more deeply. Brainspotting does this by activating the deepest part of our fight or flight and emotional center. 

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What is EMDR?

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EMDR is a therapy technique that uses eye movement to help the brain process and heal from traumatic events. In an EMDR session a therapist asks a patient to remember part of a traumatic event while also using directed eye movement to reduce the patients distress. Rapid eye movement activates creative centers in the brain that help patients discover new perspectives on a traumatic event.