“Trauma creates change you don’t choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose”. – Michelle Rosenthal
Brainspotting is a therapy technique that can help resolve many different issues including trauma, complex PTSD, performance anxiety, general anxiety, grief over a divorce or grief over the loss of a loved one. Brainspotting helps identify and heal where the issue is stored within your neurobiology to help you get “unstuck” from the issue and move forward in your life. So regardless if you are an actor/singer with performance anxiety, a student who has test anxiety, or someone who has had extreme trauma, brainspotting can often help.
Brainspotting is a therapy technique that can help resolve many different issues. Some of the issues brainspotting can help with include trauma, complex PTSD, performance anxiety, general anxiety, grief over a divorce or grief over the loss of a loved one. Brainspotting helps identify and heal where the issue is stored within your neurobiology to help you get “unstuck” from the issue and move forward in your life. So regardless if you are an actor/singer with performance anxiety, a student who has test anxiety, or someone who has had extreme trauma, brainspotting can often times help.
Think of your eyeball like the rollerball on a computer mouse. Just as the rollerball must be precisely positioned to click the right button, your eye position can act as an access point to different parts of your brain. Brainspotting uses your visual field to locate areas in your brain where uncomfortable or traumatic memories are stored. Whether the issue is big or small, brainspotting helps identify and access these "hard drive" areas during therapy, allowing your therapist to guide you toward healing.
I recently read an article titled “The Eye is our Window to the Brain”. It talked about how the eye is the only part of the brain that can be seen directly. In brainspotting, we take full advantage of this window to the brain because we know the brain is where bad memories (including trauma) are stored. When we can access the exact spots in the brain that bad memories are stored, we can work on them therapeutically.
Everything we experience as humans, we experience at the direction of our brain. When we feel an itch, our brain is the thing that directs us to itch it. There is a direct connection between your eyes and your brain. Brainspotting uses points in your vision to identify where an issue is held so that we can work on that issue directly. The brainspotting therapist uses those points to help you heal by utilizing the direct location that the issue is held in your brain to resolve the issue.
The first step in therapy is building a trusting and confidential relationship between you and your therapist. This is crucial because a strong therapeutic alliance can significantly impact the effectiveness (and speed) of the therapy.
If you feel that the therapist is providing you a safe and non-judgmental place to share your thoughts and experiences, you will be more likely to achieve your goals.
At Long Beach Therapy, our goal is to provide a safe and non-judgmental place where we can help our client’s reach their full potential by processing feelings (past and present issues), improving communication, and exploring family issues that may be a barrier to success. We have worked with adults, children, adolescents, couples, and families with various issues including:
Depression, Anxiety, Relationship Issues, Increasing Intimacy, Coming Out Issues, Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity, Self Esteem, Trauma & PTSD, Sexual Assault, Bereavement, and more.
Holistic therapy, which is an approach to mental health that considers the whole person, including their physical, emotional, social, and spiritual wellbeing, rather than focusing solely on symptoms to to bring about comprehensive wellness and balance....
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), which involves the therapist guiding you to recalling distressing memories while simultaneously directing your eye movements...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. This is an evidence-based approach which has been shown in extensive research to be an effective therapy approach...
TFCBT is a therapy model based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that specifically addresses trauma. It’s designed to help you process and heal from traumatic experiences and PTSD symptoms in a safe and supportive environment.
FLASH Therapy, which is a less intense therapy that uses similar concepts of EMDR in healing distressing memories that are causing issues in your life. FLASH therapy involves the therapist having you recall fragments of distressing memories so that issues that are too scary to focus in on for long periods of time can be addressed....
Brainspotting is a therapy technique that helps identify and heal where your specific issue is stored within your neurobiology to help you get “unstuck” from the issue and move forward in your life....
If you are ready to start, please call/text us or CLICK HERE to schedule your first appointment. If you have questions about starting therapy in Long Beach (or online therapy), please call/text us at 562-310-9741.
