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Cutting-edge Trauma Therapy in Houston, Texas
Release trauma and find freedom with Brainspotting.
Regardless of where you are in life or what you've been through, healing is possible. Brainspotting is a powerful therapeutic technique that can help you to discover buried emotional or physical trauma, offering lasting relief and healing.
Your brain is designed to be resilient.
Brainspotting activates the natural healing ability of the deep brain, allowing you to release the effect of trauma on your emotions, mood, and physical body. It is an advanced brain-body technique for healing emotional trauma, anxiety, depression, unhealthy habits, and PTSD. Brainspotting engages our innate drive to release unresolved experiences and “stuckness” and opens us up to new insights, balance, and regulation.
What is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a powerful and effective therapeutic technique used to help individuals process and heal unresolved emotional trauma. It was developed by Dr. David Grand in 2003 and has since been used to successfully treat a variety of psychological issues, including symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Brainspotting works by helping the individual to focus on and process the negative emotion or traumatic memory associated with a particular physical spot in the body. By doing this, it helps the person to recognize and releases the residual tension stored in their body from past events that are causing distress. This technique is believed to allow individuals to heal more quickly and effectively than traditional therapies alone, as it enables them to access and process more deeply held beliefs and emotions.
Brainspotting is safe, non-invasive, and an excellent tool for individuals looking to heal from trauma and move forward with their lives.
If you're searching for effective trauma treatment in Houston, Brainspotting therapy is a powerful option. While primarily focused on alleviating emotional and psychological trauma, this therapy can also aid in easing anxiety, attachment issues, substance use, posttraumatic stress disorder, chronic pain, major depressive disorder, and many other conditions. Traumatic events can have far-reaching effects that impact many aspects of our lives, including mental and physical health. Brainspotting therapy offers a targeted approach to identifying and working through this trauma, allowing individuals to regain control of their lives and move forward with confidence. Whether you're struggling with a specific issue or simply want to break free from the impact of trauma, Brainspotting therapy in Houston can help. Choose a therapy that offers real results and life-changing benefits, start your journey towards recovery today.
How Brainspotting Works
STEP ONE
You and your therapist will identify an issue to work on. While focusing on the issue, you will notice how you feel and your therapist will guide you to a place of body awareness.
STEP TWO
Through careful guidance, we will help you to identify and focus on specific places in your field of vision known as “brainspots” using a pointer.
STEP THREE
Your therapist will direct your attention to those “brainspots”. This is where stored emotional or physical trauma can be located and released.
STEP FOUR
Your therapist will then encourage you to observe without any judgement any physical or emotional sensations that arise. You speak as much or as little as you want.
STEP FIVE
Your therapist may use other techniques such as bilateral music, movement, or verbal guidance to help you focus your attention inward.
STEP SIX
The brain is reprocessing, resourcing, and rebooting. With consistency and dedication to the process, your own brain can bring itself powerful healing.
Meet Barbie
Barbie Atkinson, LPC-S is a bilingual psychotherapist and licensed professional counselor and supervisor located in Houston, Texas. She founded Bayou City Brainspotting to offer clients a chance to free themselves from trauma and live life in a new way and unburdened. Her One-Size-Can't-Possibly-Fit-All approach is refreshingly human and personal. She brings curiosity to each assessment and has helped a wide breadth of clients. She loves helping high-performing, high-achieving, successful, smart, and secretly struggling men and women.
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Phone: (281) 660-1351
Email: hello@bayoucitybrainspotting.com
Address: 810 West 21st Street, Houston TX 77008