What a session looks like
You bring something to work on, notice where you feel it in your body, and then your therapist helps you find the eye position where that feeling is strongest or clearest — often using a pointer, slowly, watching for the small reflexive signals that mark the spot.
Then you hold your gaze there and pay attention. Sessions are mostly quiet, often long-ish stretches without speaking, with your therapist staying present rather than directing. What comes up may not be verbal or even narrative, and you are not asked to explain it.
Who it tends to help
Brainspotting tends to suit people carrying activation that words do not reach — where you can describe the event perfectly well and still find your body responds as though it is happening.
It is often chosen when talking therapy has stalled, or when describing what happened in detail feels like too much. Because it needs so little narration, it can be gentler for people who find retelling retraumatising.
How it fits alongside other work
Brainspotting grew out of EMDR and shares a lot with somatic work, so it sits comfortably beside both here.
Our clinicians follow your inner experience rather than steering it, and hold the work alongside the nervous-system regulation it depends on.
Our approach
We use Brainspotting gently and attuned to your nervous system, following your inner experience rather than pushing. It pairs well with our somatic, trauma-informed way of working.
Why connect with us
If you carry trauma or activation that feels beyond words, Brainspotting may help it move. Our trained clinicians follow your inner experience rather than steering it, and hold it alongside the somatic work it grew out of.