Brainspotting is a therapeutic technique used to address the emotional and mental health impact of trauma on our bodies and lives. The modality incorporates somatic experiencing and talk therapy by identifying issues through conversation and observing the body’s physiological cues.

We will focus on specific core experiences that have impacted your current life and happiness. Together we will monitor your felt senses and movements in the eyes and face connected to a “brain spot” where you are storing emotional energy from your traumatic experiences.

In the session, we hold space for you to identify, feel and express all stuck emotions so that you can feel more comfortable in your body and confident in your life. You will leave each session feeling validated, lighter and more at ease with yourself.

Brainspotting Intensives should not be considered treatment for a mental health diagnosis. This is a supplemental healing service that would be supportive of ongoing psychotherapy with a trained mental health professional although it is not a requirement. Please speak to your therapist, if necessary about the benefits of a Brainspotting Intensive

Brainspotting sessions are effective for addressing:

• All emotionally charged life experiences and traumatic experiences

• Anxiety: excessive worry, panic attacks, debilitating fears

• Depression: low motivation, sadness, hopelessness

• Disconnection from Self/Existential Crises

• Relational emotions: shame, guilt, fear, lack of self confidence, impostor syndrome

• Attachment trauma: anxious/disorganized/avoidant patterns

Brainspotting Intensives are a series of four separate sessions.

The first session is our free 20 minute consultation call where we see if our energies are a good fit for the service.

The second session is a 60 Minute Brainspotting Assessment where we talk about all the things (or as much of the things as possible) so that we can narrow down what experiences you would like to process during your Intensive Session.

The third session is the Intensive session which is 3 or 4 hours.

The final session is a 30 minute aftercare session.

When you’re ready to heal on a deeper level, you will book a 20 minute consultation to see if we are a good fit.

Then we’ll schedule your second session: the Brainspotting Assessment.

Prior to this session you will be given an assignment to free journal and self reflect on what specific life issues or concerns are having the most negative impact on your life.

During the Intensive Session, we will talk story and sift through the different areas of your life that you have identified impact you the most. As we talk,we’ll pay attention to physiological cues from your body to monitor emotional activation.

These signs could be eyes tearing up, your mouth turning downwards, your cheek twitching and even changes in your breathing. I will check in with you periodically about how activated you might feel in your body as you’re telling a story.

Then we will attempt to find a brain spot correlated to a specific eye positioning/your gaze. Once we find the brain spot, you pay attention to your thoughts, emotions and body sensations.

You may speak if you wish or you can stay silent if it feels better for you. What happens is you begin to access a bank of subconscious memories that also hold emotional charge.

You will feel uncomfortable and I will be there to hold space for your discomfort. You will feel it to heal it.

After the session is over, we will go over any insights you might have and create an aftercare plan to integrate your experience.

I am Level 1 and Level 2 Brainspotting certified.

I have used Brainspotting in my psychotherapy practice working with survivors of sexual assault, childhood abuse & neglect and domestic violence survivors.

The coaching style I use in Brainspotting Intensives incorporates wisdom from my unique human experience as a meditation teacher, a psychotherapist, a court advocate, a trauma survivor and a decolonizing Filipina American woman.

Spirituality, inner child work and shadow work are at the core of our Brainspotting Intensives. Each intensive is a journey inward into your subconscious. The subconscious is my specialty. I am a Pisces sun, after all.

My lens is shaped by a politicized worldview that believes that the safety and livelihood of brown and black women everywhere should be at the forefront of the world’s needs. I operate from a social justice stand point that supports your right to safety and livelihood within your own body.