Brainspotting Therapy
Brainspotting therapy across NY, NJ, CT, and FL
Some doors don’t open with words.
You’re an Expert on Your Issues
You’ve tried it all already.
Therapy. Books. Podcasts. Retreats.
You can tell the story start to finish.
You can name what your parents did and didn’t do.
You can spot the trigger from a mile away.
You’re fluent in your problems:
- The behaviors you can’t break.
- The parts that pull you back.
- The inner critic that won’t quiet.
Despite everything you understand about what’s holding you back, something still hasn’t moved.
Brainspotting Offers Answers
Brainspotting is a proven therapeutic modality. Created in 2003, it has helped thousands upon thousands of people to live freer, happier lives.
Brainspotting gives you a way to reach your trauma directly. The event. The experience. The stuckness. Whatever the root, Brainspotting helps you access the trauma where it lives right inside your body.
I bring decades of experience into each session alongside Brainspotting: parts work, somatic work, attachment work, Jungian work, and more. I leverage these other approaches while Brainspotting remains the primary throughline.
In Brainspotting, brain and body are inseparable. What’s in the brain is in the body. What’s in the body is in the brain. The wound lives in both, which gives us a way through.
How Brainspotting Works
Brainspotting uses a fixed point in your visual field, a spot, to help you reach a part of the brain that words can’t get to.
Together, we find the spot where your body has the strongest response. You hold your gaze there. Your body does the rest.
Clients often describe it the same way to me afterward: they had no thoughts and no words. Their eyes were just moving where they need to go. And yet…something they were holding in their chest is suddenly gone.
Brainspotting doesn’t push past your defenses. It walks alongside them. Your fear is allowed to be there. Any denial is allowed to be there. We don’t force anything. We allow, we pay attention, and we notice.
When your body feels safe, your brain can finally reach what’s been imprinted and let it go.
Why Brainspotting Reaches What Talk Therapy Can’t
Talk therapy has a ceiling. It can name what happened to you, but it can’t always reach it.
Where you look affects how you feel.
– Dr. David Grand
You do this all day without noticing.
Your eyes settle toward what’s comfortable, away from what isn’t. That’s the link Brainspotting is built on.
A word, a smell, a glance, a tone. Everything you take in goes to the fear center of your brain before it gets to the thinking part. About three to five seconds before.
By the time you start thinking, you’re already in fight or flight.
Your amygdala has you running down the street before your thinking brain catches up.
This is also why shame is so hard to talk your way out of. Shame doesn’t live in the part of the brain that uses words. It lives in the part that took in what was put on you before you had language for it. The look that meant something was wrong with you. The silence that meant you didn’t matter. The years of carrying what was never yours.
Talk can describe shame. Brainspotting reaches it.
Brainspotting works at the fear center directly. That part of the brain that has no words.
That’s where your memories live. Your feelings. The experiences you’ve lived. The good and the ones that hurt. Plus, the emotions that go with them.
This is why talk therapy hasn’t reached it. Words can’t land in the part of you that is pre-verbal.
What a Brainspotting Session Looks Like
Sessions are 90 minutes.
The first part of a session is settling. We let your body arrive. We let your system register safety.
The middle of each session is the work itself, at whatever pace your body can handle.
The end is integration: coming back, landing, leaving steady.
When something needs more time than a weekly session can give, that’s where Focused Personal Intensives come in.
Brainspotting Deepens
Brainspotting therapy doesn’t end when the session does. Capacity builds between visits.
You notice changes in your daily experience. You discover you can sit back in a conversation that used to flatten you. You notice that you’re moving through a season that used to pull you under. You’re able to address a pain you couldn’t go near without collapsing.
My clients often notice the shifts before they can name them. Their body carries the work forward out of each session into major life improvements.
I woke up lighter with some new outlooks.
– Dan Name changed and identifying details adjusted. Quote used with permission.
Hi, I’m Trish
I’m Trish, a certified Brainspotting therapist and licensed clinical social worker.
I discovered Brainspotting as a client first. I know what it can reach because of what it reached in me.
I care deeply about the people I sit with, and they know it.
In session, my job is to hold the safety and guide you step by step. Your body does its own work when it knows it’s not alone.
When Weekly Isn’t Enough
Sometimes, brainspotting therapy doesn’t fit inside a weekly rhythm.
This might be a potent piece of grief, a troubling behavior that keeps returning, or a wound that’s been festering for years.
When you have an important thread that is ready to move, a Focused Personal Intensive gives you the time and space to see it through to completion.
These can last three hours, a half-day, a full day, or several days, all inside the same Brainspotting frame.
Open the Right Door
Where you look can change what you feel.
Open the right door.
Reach out. Let’s start.
Call or text (516) 446-8910 for a free 30-minute consultation.
This is where it finally changes
You’ve been working at this for a long time.
The only problem?
You were working at the wrong layer.
Discover why nothing else fully worked. Reach out to me today.
We’ll discuss what you’ve tried. What helped. What didn’t. And what’s still left to work on.
From there, I’ll explain exactly how I can help.
Start with a free 30-minute consultation
Your life can transform starting now.
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