Brainspotting
Brainspotting is a newer technique developed by David Grand's work with trauma survivors. Brainspotting is designed to help people access, process, and overcome trauma, negative emotions, and pain. The treatment works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of trauma, body and emotional pain and other mental health issues. Brainspotting is used as a tool to access buried experiences in the subconscious mind. Those experiences are then released and processed which can lead to profound healing. Brainspotting can sometimes provide faster results when compared to EMDR. Often times this is the case due to how adaptable a therapist can be when utilizing brainspotting techniques. Find Portland therapists that specialize in brainspotting below.
Local experts in Brainspotting
Margaret King (She/her)
Licensed Professional Counselor
LPC
I offer Brainspotting therapy to a variety of clients and continue to see incredible results. To learn more, visit the website: www.brainspotting.com
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Oregon Directions
Licensed Professional Counselor
Kari Hays: Phase 1 Training, Pacific Trauma Center with Lisa Larson, LMFT. Supervised by Dafna Gauthier, LPC. I am now able to provide Brainspotting, an evidence-based modality effective for a wide variety of emotional and somatic conditions. Brainspotting is particularly effective with trauma-based situations, helping to identify and heal underlying trauma that contributes to anxiety, depression and other behavioral conditions.
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Madilyn Long (she/they)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
LCSW
I am a trained Brainspotting clinician and utilize this modality with many of my current clients to assist in processing traumas, both recent and past, and other emotionally significant events.
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Kari Hays, M.R.C., M.A., LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
LPC
Phase 1 Training, Pacific Trauma Center with Lisa Larson, LMFT. Supervised by Dafna Gauthier, LPC.
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JESSICA VAN DER MERWE (She/Her)
Professional Counselor
LMHC, Professional Counseling Associate
Brainspotting therapy harnesses the body’s natural healing by locating a point of vision that correlates with inner neural, somatic, and emotional experiences. These eye positions, called Brainspots, access the subcortical brain, which is the inner part of our brain that holds emotional, non-verbal, and trauma memory. Accessing these brainspots lead to healing and resolution of issues that are held deeply held in the brain and body.
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Korel Ponti-Foss LMFT, ATR (he/him)
Licensed Marriage Family Therapist
LMFT
Brainspotting is a gentle brain-based therapy that offers rapid emotional processing ten times faster then traditional talk therapy. It can be used for many different things such as trauma, anxiety, depression, to performance inhancement and body-pain.
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