Brainspotting Therapy
In Wheat Ridge & Denver
When Traditional Talk Therapy Isn't Enough, Your Body Holds the Key to Healing
Are you a high-achieving professional struggling with anxiety, perfectionism, or relationship patterns that don't make sense? Do you feel stuck despite having "everything together" on the outside? At Mind, Body, Soulmates PLLC, we understand that healing from trauma and emotional pain sometimes requires going beyond words. That's where Brainspotting therapy comes in—a revolutionary new therapy that accesses your body's natural healing wisdom to create rapid and effective change.
What Is Brainspotting Therapy?
Brainspotting therapy is a focused treatment method developed by Dr. David Grand that helps process trauma and emotional stress through specific eye positions and body activation. Unlike traditional talk therapy that engages your thinking brain, this internationally acclaimed Brainspotting method connects directly with your brain's subcortical regions—where traumatic experiences and sensorimotor memories are stored.
This alternative therapy works through your brain's retinocollicular pathway and medial pulvinar, accessing neural networks that hold unresolved emotional pain. When our therapist guides your gaze to specific spots in your visual field, your brain begins naturally processing and releasing stored trauma, leading to life changing breakthroughs and improved mental health.
How Brainspotting Therapy Works
The method utilizes two primary approaches:
Inside Window Technique: You become the expert on your own experience, identifying areas in your visual field where you feel activation, physical discomfort, or emotional intensity. These "resonating spots" hold important information about stored trauma.
Outside Window Technique: Our therapist observes your body's responses and guides the client's gaze to therapeutic spots. This therapist focused approach is particularly effective when traumatic activation feels overwhelming.
We often incorporate bilateral sound to enhance the therapeutic process, creating optimal conditions for healing sensorimotor memories while supporting body sensation awareness throughout your Brainspotting sessions.
Who We Serve: Our Ideal Clients for Brainspotting Therapy
High-Functioning Individuals with Hidden Trauma
Many of our clients are successful professionals—attorneys, nurses, engineers, business owners—who appear to have their lives together but struggle with underlying anxiety, depression symptoms, or emotional stress. Often, they experienced subtle traumatic events in childhood that continue impacting their relationships and self-worth.
Brainspotting therapy helps these individuals access and heal these early wounds through body activation and processing of sensorimotor memories, creating effective change that traditional therapy couldn't achieve.
Women with Attachment and Relationship Issues
Do you find yourself in familiar but unhealthy relationship patterns? Many women carry attachment wounds from childhood that unconsciously drive their adult relationships. Through this trauma treatment, we help you heal early attachment injuries by processing the sensorimotor memories that create these patterns, allowing healthier relationships to emerge.
Couples Stuck in Destructive Cycles
When couples feel trapped in patterns of pursuit and withdrawal, criticism and defensiveness, the root often lies in individual trauma histories. We use Brainspotting therapy in our couples therapy and family therapy to help each partner heal their own wounds, naturally creating space for new relationship dynamics.
Men Navigating Transitions and Unrecognized Trauma
Men facing career changes, parenthood, or caring for aging parents often present with anxiety or depression without recognizing underlying trauma. This focused treatment method is particularly effective because it honors the body's way of processing emotional pain without requiring extensive verbal processing.
Individuals with Complex Trauma and Self-Criticism
If you struggle with perfectionism, harsh self-criticism, or feeling "never enough," you may be dealing with complex trauma—repeated experiences that shaped your self-concept. Brainspotting therapy helps heal the neural networks holding these patterns through processing stored emotional stress and traumatic activation.
Conditions We Treat with Brainspotting Therapy
Our team successfully uses this revolutionary therapy for:
Trauma and PTSD: Processing traumatic experiences without requiring you to verbally relive them, working with your brain's natural ability to heal from traumatic activation.
Anxiety and Depression: Addressing root causes rather than just managing symptoms, often leading to significant relief from challenging symptoms and improved mental health.
Relationship Difficulties: Healing the underlying attachment wounds and sensorimotor memories that drive relationship patterns.
Grief and Loss: Processing loss through body sensation awareness and gentle release of stored emotions.
Chronic Pain and Medical Trauma: Addressing the emotional component of physical discomfort while supporting overall healing.
Addiction and Substance Use: Healing underlying trauma and emotional stress that drives addictive behaviors.
Creative Blocks and Performance Issues: Clearing obstacles rooted in early experiences of criticism or shame.
Our Unique Approach: Why Choose Mind, Body, Soulmates PLLC
Collaborative Team Treatment
Unlike many practices, our team collaborates extensively on behalf of clients and families. If you're in individual therapy while your partner receives couples therapy, or family members see different therapists on our team, we coordinate approaches to ensure everyone moves in the same direction. This collaborative method is particularly valuable with Brainspotting therapy, as deep healing can impact your relationships and family dynamics.
Integration with Multiple Modalities
We combine this alternative therapy with other evidence-based approaches including:
EMDR: Both use eye movements but access different neural pathways
Internal Family Systems (IFS): Helping different parts of your personality heal stored emotions
Somatic Therapy: Enhancing body awareness and processing of body sensation
Art Therapy: Providing creative expression for healing sensorimotor memories
Mindfulness Approaches: Supporting present-moment awareness during treatment
Experienced, Trauma-Informed Therapists
Our team brings decades of combined experience with this revolutionary new therapy and trauma treatment. We're all older therapists with significant life experience who understand the complexities of healing from traumatic experiences and attachment wounds.
What to Expect in Your Brainspotting Sessions
Initial Consultation and Assessment
We begin with a comprehensive consultation where our therapist gets to know your history, current symptoms, and goals. This assessment helps us determine how this focused treatment method might best serve your healing journey and which team member specializes in your particular concerns.
Your Brainspotting Therapy Experience
During Brainspotting sessions, our therapist guides you to focus on specific eye positions while staying connected to whatever emotions, sensations, or memories arise. Through this process, you might experience:
Emotional releases as healing sensorimotor memories surface
Physical sensations through body activation and tension release
New insights about traumatic experiences or relationship patterns
A sense of calm as emotional stress releases
An altered feeling that something fundamental has shifted
Integration and Ongoing Support
After each session, we help you integrate the experience and provide resources for continued healing. Some of our therapists offer text or email support between sessions, and we provide self-care recommendations to support your processing of traumatic activation and emotional material.
Flexible Treatment Options
We offer both online and in-person Brainspotting therapy sessions to accommodate your preferences and needs. For those dealing with intensive trauma or significant life transitions, we provide intensive therapy sessions allowing for deeper processing and faster progress using this revolutionary therapy approach.
Our team offers flexible scheduling, understanding that healing doesn't follow a 9-to-5 schedule. We work with clients throughout the Denver area, with our primary location in Wheat Ridge.
The Advantages of Brainspotting Therapy
Gentle but Effective: This trauma treatment allows deep healing without potential re-traumatization, as your system sets the pace while facilitating rapid and effective change.
Works When Traditional Talk Therapy Doesn't: Accesses healing pathways that don't depend on verbal processing, making it effective for those who struggle with talk-based mental health treatment.
Addresses Root Causes: Rather than managing depression symptoms or anxiety, this method heals underlying neural networks creating emotional patterns, often leading to lasting change across multiple life areas.
Honors Natural Healing: Trusts your brain and body's ability to heal while our therapist provides supportive conditions for processing sensorimotor memories at your own pace.
Integrates with Other Approaches: Enhances rather than competes with other forms of therapy and mental health treatment.
Scientific Foundation and Effectiveness
This psychotherapy based approach works through the brain's natural processing mechanisms, including parietal and frontal interconnections, while bypassing the prefrontal cortex that can interfere with emotional healing. The method accesses deeper brain structures through somatic experiencing, allowing for clinical innovation in trauma treatment.
Research demonstrates that this alternative therapy can be as effective as other trauma treatments while offering unique advantages for processing body sensation and emotional stress through the visual field and eye movements.
Ready to Begin Your Healing Journey?
If you're ready to move beyond feeling stuck and explore the healing potential of Brainspotting therapy, we're here to support you. Whether you're dealing with anxiety that disrupts your sleep, relationship patterns that no longer serve you, or simply sensing that more healing and growth are possible, this focused treatment method might unlock your next level of emotional freedom and wellbeing.
The processing of sensorimotor memories through body activation can create rapid and effective change, offering hope for those who have felt trapped in patterns of emotional stress and physical discomfort. Through careful attention to your body's wisdom and natural healing capacity, transformation becomes possible in ways that honor your individual journey.
Take the First Step Today
We offer free consultations where you can share your story, ask questions about Brainspotting therapy, and determine if our approach feels right for your mental health needs. During this conversation, our therapist will help match you with the team member who specializes in your particular concerns and has the specific training to best serve your healing goals.
Your healing journey is unique, and you deserve treatment that honors your individual needs, challenges, and strengths. Contact us today to schedule your free consultation and discover how this revolutionary new therapy can support your path to healing and connection.
Ready to explore the healing potential of Brainspotting therapy? Contact Mind, Body, Soulmates PLLC today for your free consultation and take the first step toward the emotional freedom you deserve.
Mind, Body, Soulmates PLLC provides Brainspotting therapy along with EMDR, IFS, somatic therapy, and other evidence-based approaches for individuals, couples, and families in Wheat Ridge and throughout the Denver area. We offer both online and in-person sessions and specialize in trauma treatment, attachment, relationships, anxiety, depression symptoms, and life transitions.