Brainspotting

What Makes Brainspotting Special?

• Locating the Window to Trauma
  Brainspotting employs specific eye positions, called “brainspots,” that correspond with regions of emotional activation. By maintaining focus on these spots, often paired with bilateral sound, clients can access and release deeply held emotional or bodily experiences.

• Mind-Body Processing Without Intense Re-Experiencing
  Unlike traditional talk therapy, brainspotting doesn’t require clients to relive trauma verbally. Instead, it engages somatic and neurophysiological processes to facilitate release and integration.

• A Potent Adjunct to Traditional Therapy
  Brainspotting can enhance psychotherapy, intensives, or coaching by offering a direct route to unconscious or somatic material that often lies beyond language.

You can learn more about the science and development of Brainspotting HERE!

How Integration and Transformation Flow at Clinic Altera

1. Attuned Intake
   We begin with understanding your therapeutic goals and readiness, tailoring a brainspotting approach that complements your journey.

2. Guided Brainspotting Sessions
   Using gentle prompts and eye-positioning tools, our clinicians help you locate and hold brainspots. Through focused presence, you explore internal sensations, emotional activation, and somatic release.

3. Capacity Building
   Brainspotting paves the way for profound shifts, making room for transformation in other modalities, whether psychotherapy, coaching, or intensives.

4. Accessible and Inclusive
   Available in-person or virtually, brainspotting sessions are offered within your broader therapeutic structure at Clinic Altera.

Who This Protocol Is Best For

• Individuals processing trauma, emotional overwhelm, or unresolved grief

• Parents and caregivers who feel overstimulated and reactive under stress

• Clients feeling stuck in traditional talk therapy, seeking deeper body-based access

• Those living with PTSD, anxiety, depression, or somatic symptoms

• People working through performance anxiety, creative blocks, or professional stress

Contraindications

• Individuals in acute psychiatric crisis or unmanaged psychosis

• Those currently experiencing extreme emotional dysregulation without stabilization

• Clients lacking the support structures needed to integrate potentially intense somatic experiences

Integrating Brainspotting at Clinic Altera

Brainspotting can be seamlessly woven into your tailored care:

• Psychotherapy: Deepens emotional processing and somatic attunement

• Psychotherapy Intensives: Enhances breakthroughs during focused sessions

• Leadership and Executive Coaching: Supports clarity, regulation, and presence under pressure

• Clinical Supervision: Enhances clinician attunement and reflective practice

Ready to Begin?

Brainspotting is available as part of our psychotherapy, coaching, and intensive offerings. If you are interested, please reach out to your clinician to find out if they are trained in the modality or reach out to our clinical director at admin@clinicaltera.com.