HOW TO DO A BRAINSPOTTING INTENSIVE FOR CLIENTS - FEBRUARY 2026

This specialty workshop teaches therapists how to design customized Brainspotting intensive plans for clients, including individuals and couples. Participants will learn the most effective combinations of Activated & Expansion Frames to achieve rapid, measurable progress.

This training is designed for Brainspotting practitioners seeking to deepen their clinical competence and offer transformative Intensive experiences. Using a trauma-informed framework, participants will learn comprehensive assessment, intake, and treatment planning specific to the Brainspotting Intensive format, emphasizing client readiness evaluation, measurable goals, and integrating findings into case conceptualization. Participants will explore how to select and combine Activated and Expansion Brainspotting frames to optimize regulation, processing, and integration. Emphasis will be placed on ethical practice, documentation, and structured assessment tools to track progress. Each participant receives a complete set of client-facing and clinician-facing forms to support the Intensive process.

A Specialty Workshop that teaches you how to create customized intensive plans for your Brainspotting clients.

1) Utilize provided assessment and documentation tools to ethically structure, monitor, and evaluate Brainspotting Intensive sessions.
2) Describe the structure, pacing, and flow of a Brainspotting Intensive, and differentiate it from traditional weekly psychotherapy sessions.
3) Identify five key components of an individualized intake and treatment plan for Intensive clients—Diagnosis, Therapeutic Goals, Timeline of Traumatic Events, Negative Cognitions, and Positive Resources.
4) Apply four Brainspotting frames to address shame, imposter syndrome, self-loathing, and pervasive negative cognitions.
5) Implement at least three clinically appropriate combinations of Activated and Expansion Brainspotting frames to resolve unresolved traumatic experiences.
6) Discuss ethical and practical considerations in offering Intensives, including informed consent, scheduling, pacing, documentation, and post-Intensive follow-up care.

9:00 to 9:45: Lecture: Overview,
Review of Learning Objectives, and Introduction to the clinical and ethical
benefits of offering Brainspotting Intensives.

Overview of assessment, intake, and Treatment planning components at the onset of the Intensive.

9:45 to 10:30: Lecture: Learn 5 of the most potent Expansion Frames to heal self-loathing and deeply entrenched shame. Discuss strategies for identifying and processing core shame material.

10:30 to 10:45 Break

10:45 to 12:15 Lecture and demonstration on Healing Core Shame. Interventions focused on healing core shame. Instructor models assessment integration, attunement, and frame selection.

12:15 to 12:45 Debrief the
Demonstration on Shame and Q and A

12:45 to 1:45 Lunch

1:45 to 2:15 Lecture: Learn Brainspotting Combinations to heal your client’s trauma history, safely, effectively, and thoroughly. Learn to utilize the most thorough frames and optional resources, to ensure your clients have access to processing throughout.

2:15 to 3:45 Demonstration on Healing
Core Trauma. Instructor highlights client readiness assessment, regulation
strategies, and sequencing of frames.

3:45-4:00 Break

4:00 to 5:30 Practicum, Small-group
practice, Participants apply assessment, frame selection, and documentation
tools.

5:30 to 6:00 Questions and Answers