How Brainspotting can support the processing of trauma
“For real change to take place, the body needs to learn that the danger has passed and to live in the reality of the present.”
- Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score”, pg. 21
What is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a tool that can be used to support the processing of emotional and somatic responses to trauma that are experienced primarily in the body.
It offers a method to promote the regulation of distressing and dysregulated physiological experience, such as extreme anxiety, and flight, fight or freeze responses and other traumatic reactions stored in the body.
Click on the links below to learn more about Brainspotting and the research related to the method.
https://brainspotting.com/about-bsp/what-is-brainspotting/
https://brainspotting.com/about-bsp/research-and-case-studies/
Talk therapy can offer many benefits, including building insight, adjusting distorted thinking and exploring core beliefs and narratives about a client’s life.
All of these conversations provide a context which builds comprehension, consciousness and resiliency in the face of working through distressing emotional experience.
When processing trauma, talk therapy isn’t always enough. Trauma responses and reactions can be stored in the body. Therefore, it is important to work with the client’s nervous system and physiological experience, to process what is being held in the body, as a part of healing.