Objectives
- Determine how eye positions have relevance in potentially accessing frozen trauma in the brain.
- Identify the role of therapist in a Brainspotting session.
- Determine how a client brings to session a frame of their experiences that the therapist recognizes, receives and holds with them.
- Evaluate the evidence supporting Brainspotting therapy as a treatment intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- Determine how the mutually held frame produces focused mindfulness processing.
- Summarize how developmental trauma yielding symptomatic manifestations is inaccurately labeled as disordered.
- Identify the hypothesized neurological underpinnings of how Brainspotting works.
- Define the uncertainty principle as it relates to Brainspotting.
- Use the inside and outside window Brainspotting technique.
- Utilize “Part Spotting” with dissociation to facilitate higher functioning of healthy parts and ask harmful parts to take a step back.
- Develop “Part-Spotting” with high functioning clients as well as the most dissociative and fragile clients.
- Evaluate how Part-Spotting can get stuck clients moving forward towards a higher functioning life.