Brainspotting Therapy
Trauma doesn’t have to have the last word.
Brainspotting Therapy can help you feel more grounded.
Serving Santa Monica and greater Los Angeles. Online therapy offered to California residents.
Do you worry you feel too much? Or maybe too little?
Brainspotting therapy can help you name your experience and reclaim your body again.
COMMON MYTH: “Talking it out” is the only way to heal after traumatic experiences.
But what if I told you… we can help you use your brain to process the nitty gritty of your traumatic experiences without you feeling the pressure to share all the details. Trauma can get stuck in our physical body and we have to use brain-based interventions to help ourselves move beyond a trauma state and into a thriving state. It requires an emotionally attuned and trained professional to help guide this experience.
But what if you’ve tried different therapists and coaches and it’s just not addressing the problem?
You might be ready for a brain-based approach to processing your trauma.
When trauma goes unaddressed it can lead to…
Feeling numb and dead inside and you don’t know why
Feeling easily overwhelmed and you don’t know know what’s causing it
Feeling chronically unsafe in your environment, your relationships and your body
Feeling scared that you will always feel these unbearable and unmanageable symptoms
Worrying that you’ll get triggered again, causing you to avoid social interactions and other “risky” environments
We use a relational approach to Brainspotting.
We combine Brainspotting and depth therapy to help you finally process that trauma that’s been haunting you.
How does Brainspotting work?
Dr. Ruth Gatt answers your questions.
The aftermath of trauma can feel like:
Frequent obsessive thoughts about the traumatic event
Dreams, nightmares or flashbacks about the traumatic event
Sudden shift in your world view, believing that most things are bad and most people have bad intentions
Avoiding all reminders of your trauma, including people, places, smells, and similar circumstances
Shutting down when things feel stressful because life feels too overwhelming most of the time
Difficulty having functional relationships because of the ever-present sense of lack of safety with others
You might also feel:
Upset stomach
Sweaty palms or underarms
Foggy thoughts or frequent dissociation
Depression and anxiety
Getting easily sidetracked with reminders of your trauma
Racing and un-welcomed thoughts
Unexplained physical symptoms
Did you know that trauma can be treated? It’s not hopeless. there are ways for us to manage your trauma symptoms and help you get your life back.
It’s estimated that over 224 million adults have experienced at least one trauma in their lives. It’s incredibly common, albeit horrifying. After trauma, your world can feel unsafe and then anxiety makes your body feel unsafe too.
The good news? It’s treatable and we specialize in helping you cope.
Brainspotting can help with
Want to learn more about how we treat trauma at Woven?
Here’s a few blog posts that might answer some of your questions.
Brainspotting Intensives
We offer daylong intensives where we process your most significant traumas over an 8-hour period. Brainspotting Intensives focus on the most disturbing trauma memories and processes those in a safe therapeutic environment with a trained professional. Intensives are helpful for those with one-time trauma events, such as a car accident, sudden death or loss, sexual assault, or perinatal trauma. It can also be helpful for those struggling with Complex PTSD after years of sustained trauma. New research shows that intensive therapy for trauma and stress can be effective in symptom reduction in a short period of time. Our therapists use relational and attachment techniques along with Brainspotting and Flash Technique to help you process your traumatic experienced within the day.
Are Brainspotting Intensives right for me?
You might be a good fit for Brainspotting Intensives if:
You have PTSD.
You have a one-time traumatic event (rather than complex trauma) that continues to haunt you and cause significant distress.
You are a healthcare worker working with COVID patients.
Have experienced a sudden loss or death.
You are in weekly therapy but need to address trauma memories in order to gain better results from therapy.
You have Complex PTSD.
Benefits of Brainspotting Intensives
Sessions are completed in a one, two, or four-day format. This reduces the need to take off work or obtain weekly childcare for weekly sessions.
The upfront costs are greater for Intensives, but the shorter duration of therapy means that you save money over the course of treatment.
You can avoid waitlists for qualified and helpful Brainspotting practitioners in your area and get the immediate benefits of symptom relief.
Here’s a bit of how Brainspotting Intensives work:
