Thread: Brainspotting?
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Old Feb 10, 2018, 04:40 PM
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I have done maybe 10 brainspotting sessions with my T over the last 18 months. I have C-PTSD, so the focus is on early life trauma. We typically do a modified version of brainspotting called gazespotting, which is essentially brainspotting without the pointer and goggles. My T tracks where my eyes naturally go when talking about my trauma and guides me from there. I find this less invasive and dehumanizing than the traditional brainspotting process.

I am highly dissociative and have been numb to my body and emotions my entire life. Brainspotting is very slowly helping me to feel and gain a sense of my self as a real, solid person. I am skeptical about how much of this should be attributed specifically to brainspotting, but it has been working for me like nothing else so I'm sticking to it.

Unlike kecanoe, I do find that brainspotting draws forth attachment feelings I have for my T. I think much of this is due to the intense attunement between my T and me and our close physical proximity during the process. YMMV.