Brainspotting Therapy in the San Francisco East Bay Area Helps You Heal

BRAINSPOTTING Therapy helps the brain heal to allow for new ways of thinking, and a new way of showing up in the world. It helps because where you look affects how you feel.

 
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What is Brainspotting Therapy?

Something has been bothering you for months, years, or even your whole life and you feel like you should be “over it” already. Your family and friends encourage you to move on and think positively. You try to read self-help books to make sense of it, but nothing works.

Brainspotting skips through all those things you know don't work. So that it can get right down to business (of your brain).

 
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HOW DOES BRAINSPOTTING WORK?

Brainspotting therapy is a special type of counseling that is focused on bypassing the "thinking" part of our brain, to access the deeper emotional and body-based parts of the brain.

Brainspotting can help those who:

  • Struggle with anxiety, depression, or the impacts of trauma

  • Are going through grief or loss

  • Have anxiety about performances (ie. presentations, sports events, stage fright)

  • Simply don’t feel good about where they are at in their lives.

When we experience something negative or traumatic, the connections in our brains are impacted and change the way we function.

Brainspotting therapy will help you access your own healing process,
to rewire your brain connections, healing what once were emotional wounds that used to take over your mind. This process allows for new ways of thinking, more insight, and a new way of showing up in the world.

WHAT HAPPENS IN A BRAINSPOTTING Therapy SESSION?

Because we aren't using the "thinking" brain too much in Brainspotting, there isn’t as much talking as you'd expect in therapy. Instead, you use your eyes.

The eyes are connected to the part of the brain that accesses feelings, which is connected to the body-based parts of the brain.

 
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We'll help you find a “brain spot” using a pointer. Then you will begin to report the emotions or body sensations that come up when you think about what's bothering you.

Sometimes your therapist will use other tools like music or goggles to enhance the counseling process too. You’ll be asked to focus your eyes on that specific brain spot. This allows your brain and body to do whatever it wants or needs while focusing on the brain spot. All you have to do is notice what's happening. Depending on what you’re working on, you'll begin to feel less activation, have more clarity, and finally start to feel better.

Your brain knows what to do to heal itself, and there’s no more powerful feeling than the healing that comes right from within, from you.

Did you know there are multiple ways you can receive Brainspotting?

BRAINSPOTTING OFFERINGS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

 

Weekly Brainspotting

Brainspotting therapy can be done in the traditional model of weekly therapy, and tends to be more efficient because we are accessing different parts of the brain. You’ll work with your therapist in the San Francisco bay area to target your goals, reprocess traumatic memories, and leave therapy with a new sense of self.

Brainspotting Intensives

Often times, a standing weekly appointment just doesn’t work. Intensive Programs are designed for the busy client that is ready to dive into that deep work to accelerate healing. Brainspotting Intensive Programs are personalized, time limited, and include a Client Workbook you can keep to reflect on your amazing work.

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Adjunct Brainspotting

You might already have a talk therapist you love, but you’ve discussed with them your need for something deeper in your treatment. Empowered Mind Therapy Center in Walnut Creek, CA will work with your therapist to meet your needs. Brainspotting sessions in addition to talk therapy will maximize positive outcomes.

 
 

Our Therapy Specialities in the San Francisco Area

 


​Curious if Brainspotting Therapy in the San Francisco Bay Area is worth a try?

Whether you are in Walnut Creek, Oakland, or in the San Francisco east bay area our caring therapists can help. Throught Brainspotting therapy you can feel empowered by healing from within. If you are ready to address you anxiety, depression, or trauma with Empowered Mind Therapy follow these steps.

  1. Reach out to our Client Care Coordinator

  2. Get connected with a caring counselor for Brainspotting

  3. Start healing and feeling better

Other Ways We Support Mental Health in Walnut Creek, Oakland, & San Francisco

Brainspotting therapy is not the only service we offer that can help support you and your mental health. We also offer EMDR therapy and EMDR intensives. As well as consultations for clinicians. If you are not in the San Francisco east bay area and want to receive support that’s okay! All of our counseling services are available throughout California with online therapy.

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