Somatic Brainspotting
for Healing & Growth

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Brainspotting is a focused, precise method that helps the brain and nervous system process trauma, unresolved emotional memory, chronic stress, and emotional blocks.

Because our eyes are directly connected to the brain's deeper processing centers, emotions like shame or fear often trigger instinctive gaze aversion (notice how we tend to look away from someone when sharing something more charged?). Brainspotting harnesses this natural reflex, using specific eye positions that locate where unprocessed experience is held. This allows the nervous system to complete what was left unfinished, often leading to genuine resolution and renewed access to resilience, creativity, and inner resources.

In my practice, brainspotting is integrated with somatic awareness, developmental work, and subtle hypnosis and mindfulness, deepening the quality of focused attention that neuroscience recognizes as central to neuroplastic change (how the brain rewires).

Compassionate presence and co-regulation are woven throughout, because healing is not just about what gets resolved, but how you feel safely met in the process.

This work may be right for you if you are:

  • Navigating grief, loss, or life transition

  • Recovering from acute trauma or crisis

  • Living with chronic stress, overwhelm, or burnout

  • Struggling with insecure attachment or relational wounding

  • Carrying unprocessed trauma, shame, or repressed emotion

  • Stuck in freeze, shutdown, or chronic protection

    Or if you are ready to grow forward:

  • Moving beyond limiting beliefs and self-blocks

  • Seeking more presence, intuition, and creativity in your life

Frequently Asked Questions

  • When we think or talk about a highly charged experience, the body often reacts before the mind does, and our eyes instinctively fix on a particular spot that reflects that stored activation. Brainspotting uses this natural orienting reflex of the eyes and midbrain to access deeper limbic and body-based memory networks, where experience is held beneath conscious awareness.

    It is a simple, contemplative process that works through focused eye positions and shared attunement, allowing the nervous system to process and integrate what it has been organizing around, at its own pace and depth.

  • They share roots but work differently. EMDR uses guided bilateral eye movements within a highly structured protocol. Brainspotting uses specific gaze points to locate where activation is held in the nervous system, then follows the client's own process in the present moment rather than a predetermined sequence.

    Brainspotting tends to be slower, more contemplative, and more body-centered. In my practice it is integrated with somatic work, mindfulness, and an understanding of neuroplasticity, so the process supports both resolution and the building of new capacity.

    I do not offer EMDR and am not a licensed therapist. I am a certified Brainspotting practitioner, certified somatic and DARe practitioner, developmental coach, and meditation teacher, currently completing an MS in Applied Neuroscience.

  • When experiences overwhelm our capacity to process them, the system organizes around protection rather than presence, forming implicit patterns beneath conscious awareness. This work operates at the level of the nervous system itself, not the body alone, but the underlying architecture through which experience, identity, and perception are actually organized.

    Somatic and nervous system work are often used interchangeably, but they're not quite the same thing. In my work, we engage both: building a regulated nervous system and a coherent sense of self to meet experience with. This is not movement, fitness, or bodywork. It is capacity building work

  • Most somatic work was designed for acute shock trauma and stays at the level of physical sensation, neither of which reaches developmental or chronic relational-based wounding, where the self never fully formed or had to contract.

    Sensation is one of five channels through which implicit experience is accessed, alongside imagery, behavior, emotion, and meaning. And the soma itself includes not just the physical body but the emotional, cognitive, subtle, and relational self. Healing developmental wounding requires engaging the central nervous system and cortical architecture where the self, perception, and meaning are actually organized.

    This is capacity building work. We meet what is implicitly present and create the conditions for gradual reorganization across every dimension of who you are. 

    Every person arrives differently. The work meets you where you are.

  • Yes. I am a certified somatic practitioner, psychosynthesis/developmental coach, and meditation teacher, not a licensed therapist. My model is somatic, relational, and contemplative, without diagnosis or medical treatment.

    This work accesses the implicit layers where patterns live right here in the present. We move bottom-up through the nervous system and top-down through developmental and psychosynthesis-informed work with the self.

    Most clients arrive after other inner work that offered real support and are now ready for something more inside out. This work has a greater growth-forward orientation, with the past surfacing organically rather than focusing energy there. With a greater focus on building the capacity for inner emotional presence and a whole sense of self, clients often describe a quality of contact with themselves they hadn't found before.

    I will always communicate transparently if this work is not the right fit.

  • Sessions are either online from anywhere in the world via live Zoom, or in-person in NYC.

    In-person sessions are in Midtown Manhattan and carry a small additional fee.

This work meets you where you are, building capacity to process experience, for presence, and a life lived from the inside out.

I’m glad you’re here.

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