Healing Trauma Silently: Brainspotting with Joanne Mednick and Mike Beychok

For us, anything that we can do to make the process gentler is what we want to do as our goal. We actually don't need to know what their issue is or what they're working on, but by finding out where, in their field of vision, they are not comfortable and they don't like looking, we can help them access it on that subcortical level and the brain actually will just start to process the trauma by looking at that spot rather than having to talk about it and going into it again so they're able to release it much more on the emotional level and through the nervous system without actually really talking about it.