“A major challenge to treatment is that victims of severe complex trauma have trouble disclosing their abuse in verbal form. Current neuroscience helps us appreciate that it is not only cultural taboo about rape and justifiable fears of retribution that keep victims from speaking up. Trauma is stored in the body, in sensorimotor phenomena and in visual images, not in words. When we refer to “unspeakable” atrocities, that is exactly the case. Increasingly we appreciate that victims may have no words for what they have endured.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/27/some-trauma-really-is-unspeakable-so-these-women-are-sewing-their-stories-instead/
How Effective is Brainspotting Therapy?
Thousands of practitioners all over the world find Brainspotting to be a powerful and effective therapy for their clients. People report having deeper and more profound releases with Brainspotting as compared to other brain-based or traditional talk therapies. Some studies demonstrating the efficacy of Brainspotting therapy for treating trauma, anxiety, stress, and other issues are referenced in Resources. Following the Sandy Hook School shooting, Brainspotting was identified by victims and their families as the most helpful and effective therapy for relieving anxiety, stress and trauma. In addition, Brainspotting can help find and strengthen our natural resources and resilience. It is even more powerful when used with bilateral music during session.
Brainspotting therapy is primarily non-verbal and clients do not have to speak or describe their trauma because it will re-traumatize them. Neuroscience teaches us that trauma is stored in the limbic (subcortical) part of the brain which stores memories and emotions, and has no language or speech capability. In Brainspotting therapy, we bypass the frontal cortex with its speech and language, and work directly with the brain’s limbic system instead, accessing unspeakable trauma. Healing occurs without retraumatization.
Brainspotting Therapy with Elaine Korngold
I am a Certified Brainspotting Therapist and an Approved Consultant and would be happy to talk to you about Brainspotting. Brainspotting therapy accesses the genius of our deeper emotional brain. During the healing process I am fortunate to observe how intelligent, inventive, and intuitive all human beings are. Creativity is revealed through their resilience, survival, and recovery. The processing that occurs with clients focused on a Brainspot is deep, rapid, and unpredictable. During each session I wait for the surprise and I am rarely disappointed.
With your focused vision and my attuned presence and verbal guidance, emotional Brainspots can be released in a gentle and non-invasive way. There is no need to be in chronic emotional pain. Please text or email me for a free consultation.