Overview

Brainspotting with Katherine Allen is a cutting edge, neurologically based form of deep and rapid healing. Katherine Allen is trained and supervised personally by David Grand, Ph.D., the founder of Brainspotting. The motto of Brainspotting is “where you look affects how you feel.” Our eyes and brains are intricately woven together and signals sent from the eyes are deeply processed in the brain which then reflexively and intuitively redirects where we look. Trauma can overwhelm the brain’s processing capacity, leaving behind pieces of the trauma, frozen in an unprocessed state. Brainspotting uses our field of vision to find where we are holding these traumas, scanning the inside environments, seeking the specific internal spot where the trauma is stored. It then allows deep processing to release and resolve the trauma. The Brainspotting therapist listens to the client’s words and body experiences, observing the eyes, face and body, watching for reflexive cues. It is based on the premise that the brain is self-healing and the role of the therapist is to set and hold a frame that promotes the client’s self-healing capacities.