One of the staff at my son's school asked me if I had ever heard of brainspotting, a new technique for dealing with trauma and anxiety. She is using it to deal with PTSD, and her son is using it for his OCD and anxiety. I hadn't, and I thought it might be something someone here would find helpful. She mentioned it's only about 20 years old, and that the man who developed it, (if I remember correctly), lives in Boulder. She said so far it is helping extremely well. And for the better, she doesn't have to talk about the trauma she's endured. It could even help with undefined trauma. She told me the price and it is very inexpensive, at about $100.
Here's a site about it, and a quote from there as well to pique your interest further.
https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/brainspotting-therapy
How Does Brainspotting Work?
According to therapist and creator David Grand, the direction in which people look or gaze can affect the way they feel. During brainspotting, therapists help people position their eyes in ways that enable them to target sources of negative emotion. With the aid of a pointer, trained brainspotting therapists slowly guide the eyes of people in therapy across their field of vision to find appropriate “brainspots,” with a brainspot being an eye position that activates a traumatic memory or painful emotion. Practitioners of the procedure believe it allows therapists to access emotions on a deeper level and target the physical effects of trauma.
There is increasing evidence that trauma is “stored” in the body and that it can alter the way the brain works. Trauma can, for example, have an effect on emotions, memory, and physical health. Brainspotting seems to activate the body’s innate ability to heal itself from trauma.
Here's a site about it, and a quote from there as well to pique your interest further.
https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/brainspotting-therapy
How Does Brainspotting Work?
According to therapist and creator David Grand, the direction in which people look or gaze can affect the way they feel. During brainspotting, therapists help people position their eyes in ways that enable them to target sources of negative emotion. With the aid of a pointer, trained brainspotting therapists slowly guide the eyes of people in therapy across their field of vision to find appropriate “brainspots,” with a brainspot being an eye position that activates a traumatic memory or painful emotion. Practitioners of the procedure believe it allows therapists to access emotions on a deeper level and target the physical effects of trauma.
There is increasing evidence that trauma is “stored” in the body and that it can alter the way the brain works. Trauma can, for example, have an effect on emotions, memory, and physical health. Brainspotting seems to activate the body’s innate ability to heal itself from trauma.
