Brainspotting for Trauma and Narcissistic Abuse

How Brainspotting for Trauma Can Help

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Brainspotting is a
LIBERATING modality…

Brainspotting for trauma is a powerful, brain-body based healing modality that accesses the deepest regions of the brain where you store your traumatic experiences as well as your infinite capacities for expansion.

The access to the mid-brain and body allows profound transformation to occur for you.

What to expect with Brainspotting:

Example of a Brainspotting Session:

It works by identifying, processing and releasing the core and deeply embedded trauma.

The symptoms of unprocessed trauma are highlighted and reinforced in the relationship with the pathological narcissist, and leave heightened levels of pain (emotional and physical), anxiety, rumination, brain fog and severe cognitive dissonance (It’s my fault/It’s not my fault, “I love them/I hate them”) and, we stay trauma bonded to the pathological narcissist – in some cases, even decades after the relationship has ended. We must heal the cognitive dissonance to dissolve the trauma bond.

These symptoms are extremely difficult to eliminate through talk therapy. Verbal engagement does not reach the deep regions of the subcortical brain and body, where traumatic experiences are held.

Brainspotting is subtle and effective. Results may vary with each individual.

It can be a subtle experience or a profound one. You bring the frame of your experience and we work together to address it.

The intention is to process out the stored traumatic energy in your body
You will feel calmer, with no more panic attacks, more yourself, more grounded, less brain fog, less stress, less anxiety, clearer mind, not so fearful, more strengthened in self.

Where you look affects how you feel.
Where you look affects how you feel.
With Brainspotting we use an eye position to go inside to help us process maladapted beliefs and core wounds.
A brain spot is seen as an eye position that correlates with a physiological capsule that holds a traumatic experience in memory form.
Your own system accesses the subconscious by paying attention to the body, exploring it to get new info.
We are looking for internal files or “capsules” of time-oriented uncertainty/trauma.
With Brainspotting, we are simply curious and we go into uncertainty to heal.
The brain has a powerful way to “heal itself of its original traumas, given the opportunity”.
We want the “thinking brain”, the NEOCORTEX to go OFFLINE and the “body brain”, the SUBCORTEX to engage.

Psychotherapy is only likely to be successful LONGTERM when the SUBCORTEX system (Allocortex – deeper in limbic system & the Agranular isocortex- the third eye) is accessed and regulated.

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Process:

Together we will set the frame for you and then find the Brainspot by working with your body and an eye position.

I will be attuned with you, holding space for you, watching your neurobiological responses, and I may not say very much – acknowledging and asking you to pay attention to your body felt sense when you process the things that come up,

All you need to do is observe with curiosity, give yourself time, and see what happens.

We don’t want to go INTO the story but rather just be the OBSERVER OF THE STORY, so I will say things like .. “try to just OBSERVE, JUST NOTICE, (it’s kind of like watching a movie of your mind),

We let the “system” do the work.

All kinds of things can happen, there is no “right way” to do this, you might go through things you don’t understand (remember we’re accessing the subconscious mind), if it’s ever too overwhelming, you will let me know, as I have things I can do to “turn the volume down”,

You simply want to stay curious about the process, let the feelings, thoughts, emotions just come up with no judgement,
I will watch the time and be there with you every step of the way by holding the space for you.

In the words of David Grand, PhD and Founder of Brainspotting:

Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of other challenging symptoms. Brainspotting is a simultaneous form of diagnosis and treatment, enhanced with Biolateral sound, which is deep, direct, and powerful yet focused and containing.

Brainspotting functions as a neurobiological tool to support the clinical healing relationship. There is no replacement for a mature, nurturing therapeutic presence and the ability to engage another suffering human in a safe and trusting relationship where they feel heard, accepted, and understood.

Brainspotting gives us a tool, within this clinical relationship, to neurobiologically locate, focus, process, and release experiences and symptoms that are typically out of reach of the conscious mind and its cognitive and language capacity.

Brainspotting works with the deep brain and the body through its direct access to the autonomic and limbic systems within the body’s central nervous system. Brainspotting is accordingly a physiological tool/treatment which has profound psychological, emotional, and physical consequences.

Summary:

Brainspotting therapy is an effective, evidence-informed approach for helping adults recover from narcissistic abuse, narcissistic abuse recovery, trauma bonding, gaslighting, and complex relational trauma. By calming and regulating the nervous system, Brainspotting helps reduce the lasting effects of psychological abuse and supports deep, lasting healing.

As a narcissistic abuse therapist, Martha C. Digby, RP, integrates Brainspotting within The Structured Recovery Protocol™ to help clients regain clarity, rebuild self-trust, process relational trauma, strengthen healthy boundaries, and move forward with greater confidence and resilience.

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