Brainspotting

Brainspotting (BSP) is a new psychotherapeutic approach that hypothesezes that the field of vision can be used to locate eye positions that correlate with relevance to inner neural and emotional experience. After these eye positions, or brainspots, are located, by maintaining eye fixation, they may lead to a healing and resolution of issues that are held deeply in the non-verbal, non-cognitive areas of the neurophysiology. BSP utilizes both focused activation and focused mindfulness as its mechanisms of operation. It aims at a full, comprehensive discharge of activation held in the brain and body. BSP is a model that incorporates systemic activation and resources applied based on both diagnostic and developmental considerations. The BSP model is both relational and technical, with philosophical and physiological underpinnings.