Long before I trained in Brainspotting, I realised that freediving was revealing something far more interesting than breath-hold ability. In fact, when I first began teaching freediving, I originally wanted to call my school Deep Reflections because I was fascinated by the way diving seemed to reflect our internal state.

While research is still evolving, neuroscience is giving us an increasingly helpful picture of why this approach is so effective.

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.