Brainspotting

Brainspotting is a powerful therapeutic tool that I integrate into my coaching practice.

Despite the name, it’s not “woo” or abstract—it’s a focused, body-based approach that helps identify, process, and release the deeper emotional patterns and beliefs that keep you stuck.

In simple terms: it helps your mind and body move through what has been held, suppressed, or unresolved.

If you want a deeper understanding, read on.

How it works

When we experience something that feels overwhelming, too much, too fast, or too soon, (or even what we didn’t experience) the emotional charge of that experience can become stored in the subcortical brain and held in the body.

This is often referred to as the idea that “the issues are in the tissues.”

Even when we are not consciously aware of it, these stored experiences can continue to shape how we think, feel, and respond—impacting us emotionally, mentally, and physically.

Brainspotting is designed to help access these stored experiences so they can be safely processed and released, reducing their ongoing impact in your life.

What happens in a session

Brainspotting works with the relationship between where you look and how you feel.

As we gently focus attention on specific eye positions—called “brainspots”—the nervous system is supported in accessing and processing material that is often outside of conscious awareness.

This allows for deep emotional and physiological processing, supporting the brain’s natural capacity for integration and regulation.

Over time, this can help shift you from patterns of dysregulation and reactivity into greater calm, clarity, and responsiveness in daily life. Results are seen not only instantly (reduced activation around an issue, more clarity, increased perceptive) but also cumulatively.

My role

As your practitioner, I listen closely to your words and track subtle cues in your eyes, face, and body to help identify the brainspots that are most relevant to your experience.

We then work together to support your system in doing what it already knows how to do: heal.

I believe the nervous system is inherently intelligent and self-healing. My role is to create a safe, attuned, and supportive space for that process to unfold.

About my practice

I am a Certified Brainspotting Practitioner with over a decade of experience supporting clients in reconnecting with themselves—physically, mentally, and emotionally.

I work with clients online worldwide, as well as in-person in Happy Valley, Oregon.

My clients often describe this work as deeply effective and unexpectedly transformative, helping them experience meaningful shifts in a relatively short period of time.