What is Brainspotting?

Brainspotting is a powerful, brain-body therapy that accesses and processes trauma at its deepest survival level, where talk therapy cannot reach. By identifying specific eye positions (brainspots) that correlate with unprocessed emotional experiences, clinicians can help clients release stored trauma, reduce symptoms, and unlock resilience and performance. As the nervous systems in the body become regulated; anxiety, depression, insomnia, panic, hypervigilance, dissociation, digestive issues, and chronic fatigue disappear.

What makes Brainspotting especially compelling is its precision and depth: it bypasses cognitive defenses and works directly with the nervous system, allowing for profound healing in areas such as trauma, attachment wounds, addiction, and performance blocks.

Clinicians who train in Brainspotting consistently report that it transforms their clinical effectiveness—enabling them to work more efficiently, go deeper with clients, and facilitate lasting change even in complex, treatment-resistant cases.

If you're looking to expand your clinical impact and offer a therapy that meets clients where healing actually happens, in the body and brain, Brainspotting is a game changer.

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Interested in learning Brainspotting?

Discover the benefits of learning Brainspotting for emotional, mental, physical and spiritual healing. View resources and trainings below.

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Meet our founder!

Lisa is a compassionate trauma specialist whose work is shaped by both decades of clinical experience and her own powerful healing journey. Early in her career, she practiced traditional talk therapy, until a life-altering experience changed everything. After she and her teenage son survived separate, near-fatal allergic reactions just weeks apart, Lisa developed acute PTSD that talk therapy alone could not resolve.

Her healing began with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), where she experienced profound relief in just two sessions. This transformation led her to pursue advanced training in cutting-edge trauma therapies, including EMDR and Brainspotting, with the developers.

Through Brainspotting, Lisa witnessed clients release deeply held trauma and reclaim a sense of hope, regulation, and wholeness, even after decades of suffering. She came to understand that true healing requires accessing the subcortical or “survival” brain, where trauma is stored, beyond the reach of talk therapy.

In 2012, Lisa founded Pacific Counseling and Trauma Center. Now a Brainspotting trainer, she is dedicated to equipping clinicians with powerful tools to create deep, lasting healing, impacting not only individuals, but families and communities for generations.

Our trainings

Testimonials

  • Paul Gebka-Scuffins

    "Please tell Lisa how truly thankful I am for being able to attend her Expansion training. It is the best, most professional brainspotting training I have ever been on. Her Expansion training should be called a Phase 5 or Phase 6 training in terms of its importance for all brainspotters. This training will transform my practice beyond measure."

  • Julia Sherrill, LCSW

    "I literally just told another therapist about the chart and how your monthly emails are the ONLY ones that I truly look forward to because they always have amazing content and set-ups. I think I have learned more from being on your email list than I did in Phase I, so THANK YOU for being so amazing and sending out the really helpful and practical information to help us serve the world." 

  • Dr. Lauralynn Noblejas 

    "Thank you for this phenomenal training! I used it with all my clients yesterday with great success. Since I had been using EMDR, I asked my clients which of the two they preferred. All of them preferred the BSP. I’m so blessed to have been able to experience this past weekend. Forever grateful to you, Lisa, and the entire crew."

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Watch our Podcast: Healing from Trauma with Brainspotting