Yes, absolutely! Brainspotting intensives can be a powerful adjunct to your ongoing weekly therapy. The intensive format allows you to dive deep and make significant progress in a short amount of time, complementing the work you’re already doing with your therapist. It can help you process deeper layers of trauma or unresolved emotional experiences, while your weekly sessions provide continued support and integration. It’s a holistic approach that enhances your healing journey by adding a concentrated, focused element to the therapeutic process.

Yes, Brainspotting intensives can be done online! Through a secure video platform, we can work together remotely, allowing you to experience the deep healing of Brainspotting from the comfort of your own space. While it may feel different from in-person sessions, the effectiveness of Brainspotting online is just as powerful, as we can still target specific eye positions and work through the emotional material that comes up. This option provides flexibility and accessibility while maintaining the depth and transformative nature of the process.

Yes we offer one sliding scale spot every other month. We prioritze BIPOC queer individuals.

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Choosing an intensive over weekly sessions can be beneficial for several reasons:

1. Faster Progress: Intensive sessions allow you to make significant progress in a shorter amount of time. By condensing deep work into a few focused days, you may process and heal years of emotional material more quickly than in traditional weekly sessions.

2. Deeper Dive: Intensives offer the opportunity to immerse yourself fully in the healing process, allowing you to access and work through deep layers of trauma or emotional blocks that may take longer to uncover in weekly sessions.

3. Focused Healing: With the concentrated time and energy of an intensive, you can dive deeper into specific issues or events, providing a more focused approach compared to weekly sessions, which often involve multiple topics or concerns.

4. Efficiency: If you're looking for relief quickly or have a particular issue you want to address without long-term commitment, an intensive can offer relief and healing in just a few days, reducing the need for multiple months of weekly therapy.

5. Integration: While weekly sessions offer ongoing support, intensives create space for deep emotional release and integration. This allows you to experience healing on a profound level, and then follow up with your weekly therapist for continued support and maintenance.

6. Tailored Experience: Intensives are highly customizable to your needs, providing a unique opportunity to tailor the work to exactly what you're ready to focus on, compared to the more general nature of weekly therapy sessions.

While both Brainspotting and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) use eye movements to process trauma, Brainspotting focuses on identifying and processing "brainspots," or eye positions that correlate with emotional distress. It tends to be more focused on the body’s sensations and the client’s direct experience in the moment.

In a Brainspotting intensive, you can target a variety of issues or experiences that may require focused, deep emotional work. Some of the things you can address include:

1. Trauma: Both recent and past trauma can be processed, including childhood trauma, physical or emotional abuse, accidents, or any overwhelming event that has left lasting emotional imprints.

2. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): If you’ve experienced prolonged exposure to trauma, Brainspotting can help process the deep emotional and physical responses that are a result of PTSD.

3. Anxiety & Panic: You can target the root causes of anxiety or panic attacks, including specific triggers or unresolved emotional experiences that may be contributing to these feelings.

4. Depression: Brainspotting can be used to access the root of depressive emotions, helping to process underlying pain, grief, or unresolved feelings that are contributing to feelings of sadness or hopelessness.

5. Grief and Loss: Whether from the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or any significant loss, Brainspotting can help process the deep emotional responses and help release stored grief.

6. Addiction & Compulsive Behaviors: Brainspotting can address the emotional trauma and patterns that underlie addictive behaviors, helping to clear emotional blocks that fuel unhealthy coping mechanisms.

7. Self-Worth & Identity: If you struggle with issues related to self-esteem, feelings of inadequacy, or low self-worth, Brainspotting can help release the emotional blocks that hinder a positive self-image.

8. Physical Pain or Tension: Emotional trauma is often stored in the body, and Brainspotting can help access and release pain or tension that may have a somatic, emotional, or traumatic origin.

9. Relationship Issues: You can work through emotional blocks tied to relationship struggles, such as communication issues, betrayal, trust issues, or family dynamics.

10. Performance Anxiety: Whether in your personal life or career, Brainspotting can help you address fears of failure, perfectionism, or imposter syndrome that may be holding you back from reaching your full potential.

11. Unresolved Childhood Wounds: Many people find it helpful to target childhood wounds that may still be influencing their present relationships or emotional responses.

12. Ancestral Trauma: You may choose to focus on inherited or intergenerational trauma, using Brainspotting to release the emotional burdens passed down from your ancestors.

13. Core Beliefs: Brainspotting can help uncover and challenge deeply held beliefs that may be limiting your growth or perpetuating negative thought patterns, like "I'm not enough" or "I'm unworthy."

14. Fears and Phobias: Whether it's a fear of public speaking, flying, or other specific phobias, Brainspotting can help you access and resolve the underlying emotional triggers that contribute to these fears.

15. Body Image Issues: If negative body image or struggles with self-acceptance are part of your experience, Brainspotting can help release emotional barriers tied to self-perception.

Yes! Brainspotting can help process and heal trauma from the past, whether it happened recently or years ago. It is especially useful for accessing memories or emotions that may not be easily accessible through talk therapy alone.