Brainspotting Therapy in Gallatin, TN
What is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a therapy approach that helps access and process emotions and experiences that may feel “stuck” beneath the surface.
Rather than only talking through an issue, we slow down and pay attention to what’s happening in your body and nervous system. Using a specific eye position (called a “brainspot”), we can gently connect to deeper emotional material and allow your brain to process it in a way that feels more complete.
Brainspotting gives us a way to slow down, pay attention, and make space for what may be difficult to access through words alone.
What Can Brainspotting Help With?
Brainspotting can support a wide range of experiences—especially the ones that are hard to fully put into words, or the things you’ve talked through and understand but somehow still keep showing up.
It can be helpful for things like:
• Anxiety, overthinking, and a mind that has a hard time slowing down
• Perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the pressure to hold it all together
• Trauma, grief, and experiences that still feel emotionally stuck
• Betrayal, relationship wounds, and experiences that have shaken your sense of safety or trust
• Motherhood, identity shifts, and finding yourself somewhere in the midst of caring for everyone else
• The pressure of leading, achieving, and being the one others count on
• Self-doubt, negative beliefs, and difficulty trusting yourself
• Emotional shutdown or feeling disconnected from yourself
• Stress that keeps showing up in your body
• Patterns you understand and have talked through, but still keep showing up
• And More
What to Expect in a Brainspotting Session?
A Brainspotting session is supportive and follows your experience at your own pace.
Here’s what it typically looks like:
We start with what you’d like to focus on
This might be a feeling, memory, belief, situation, or something that’s been hard to shake.We slow down and notice what’s happening
We’ll pay attention to what you notice emotionally and physically as you connect with it.Together, we find a “brainspot” connected to the experience
This is simply a point in your visual field that seems connected to what you’re noticing.We stay curious about what comes up
There’s nothing you have to make happen. I stay present and attuned with you as we follow where the process goes.We take time to process and come back together
Before we wrap up, we’ll check in on what shifted, what you noticed, and anything you want to carry forward from the experience.
Brainspotting and EMDR: What’s the Connection?
If you've looked into trauma therapy, you may already be familiar with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing or EMDR. Brainspotting was developed by Dr. David Grand through his work with EMDR and has since developed into its own approach.
Both recognize that sometimes insight alone isn't enough. You can understand where a pattern comes from and still feel stuck in it.
Brainspotting offers another way to work with those places by slowing down and paying attention to what you notice in your thoughts, emotions, and body. For those considering EMDR, trauma therapy, or something beyond traditional talk therapy, Brainspotting may be worth exploring.
Check out the videos and resources below to learn more.
How I Use Brainspotting
Brainspotting is one tool we may use in therapy, but it doesn't replace the relationship we build together. I often weave it into our work when talking and insight have taken us part of the way, but something still feels stuck.
Sometimes that means spending most of a session in Brainspotting. Other times, we may use it briefly and then return to talking and making sense of what came up. Like the rest of therapy, we'll figure out together what feels most helpful for you.
