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Can Neuroscience Explain How Brainspotting Works?
While research is still evolving, neuroscience is giving us an increasingly helpful picture of why this approach is so effective.
Louisa Collyns
Jul 33 min read


Brainspotting Personal Intensives: Deep Work in a Concentrated Timeframe
A Brainspotting Personal Intensive is an extended experience that condenses what might take months of weekly sessions into one, two, or three consecutive days of focused, uninterrupted work. I think of it as akin to a personal retreat.
Louisa Collyns
Jun 193 min read


Perimenopause, Trauma and the Nervous System: What the Research Is Beginning to Reveal
If you're in the perimenopause or menopause years and finding it harder than you anticipated - more anxiety, more emotional reactivity, more of a sense that old feelings are resurfacing - there may be something important that nobody has told you.
Louisa Collyns
Jun 163 min read


What Happens in a Brainspotting Session? Part 2 of the Brainspotting Series
We start with a chat, to identify an issue you’d like to address. There's no need to go into the ‘story’ too much, share more than you want, or even to know what is going on with you. We just want to find out what's present for you, what you're experiencing, what could feel better.
Louisa Collyns
Jun 153 min read


EMDR and Brainspotting: What's the Difference?
Both EMDR and Brainspotting are brain-body approaches that work with trauma and emotional distress. Both modalities recognise that the body and nervous system hold what the thinking mind alone cannot resolve.
Louisa Collyns
Jun 95 min read


Brainspotting for Performance Blocks and Expansion. Part 1 of the Performance Series
Brainspotting was first developed with a performance context in mind. Dr David Grand discovered it while working with a figure skater who had carried a performance block for years, despite weekly EMDR sessions. After one 10-minute experience of what was to become Brainspotting, the figure skater’s performance block was gone, forever.
Louisa Collyns
Jun 53 min read


What is Nervous System Regulation? Part 1 of the Understanding Your Nervous System Series
Your nervous system is the body's master control centre. It governs everything — how you sleep, how you think, how you feel, how you recover, how you connect with other people. It's working every second of every day, mostly without you noticing.
Louisa Collyns
Jun 53 min read


What Brain Studies Say About Brainspotting?
Recent brain studies are beginning to offer insight into how Brainspotting may affect the brain and nervous system
Louisa Collyns
Jun 43 min read


What is Brainspotting? Part 1 of the Brainspotting Series
Brainspotting is a cutting-edge brain, body and neuroscience-based approach to healing. It works with the brain and nervous system to locate and release stored emotional distress.
Louisa Collyns
Jun 34 min read
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