Brainspotting Phase 2
Seminar Overview
This 3-day, in person Brainspotting Phase 2 training will begin with an extensive review of Outside and Inside Window Brainspotting and Gazespotting, with an emphasis on how to clinically interact with
clients.
Trainees will be introduced to several important applications. This includes One-Eye Brainspotting including the use of One-Eye goggles. Also taught is 3 Dimensional Brainspotting using the “Z-Axis” of Brainspotting close and far; this includes Vergence Therapy which expands the Z-Axis to activate the vagus nerve through the ocularcardiac reflex.
Additional technical refinements will be presented including “Rolling Brainspotting,” with slow eye tracking stopping briefly on each Brainspot.
Advanced techniques will also include combined Inside-Outside Brainspotting where both reflexive responses and client sense of highest activation are used together to find Brainspots.
Day 3 will be devoted to the second level of the Advanced Resource Model. This will entail combining the resource aspects of One-Eye and Z-Axis Brainspotting. This addresses working with clients with Very Complex PTSD and those outside of the Brainspotting Window of Tolerance.
Techniques taught with PowerPoint lecture, discussion with Q & A, demonstrations and practicums.
Learning Objectives
Participants of this intermediate level course will be able to:
- Summarize the research on client-therapist attunement in in-person and online psychotherapy sessions.
- Set and utilize the dual attunement frame.
- Explain the way in which bilateral auditory stimulation may enhance processing during Brainspotting.
- Explain the role of the allocortex and the agranular isocortex in Brainspotting.
- Describe the oculocardio reflex and its relationship to the vagus nerve of the parasympathetic nervous system.
- Demonstrate a basic mastery of the z-axis and vergence therapy techniques.
- Explain how the one-eye Brainspotting technique can focus and enhance processing of trauma-related experiences.
- Demonstrate a basic mastery of the use of the one-eye Brainspotting technique.
- Demonstrate a basic mastery of the use of the rolling Brainspotting technique.
- Demonstrate a basic mastery of the use of the advanced outside window Brainspotting technique.
- Demonstrate a basic mastery of the use of the advanced resource model of Brainspotting.
- Demonstrate a basic mastery of the combined inside-outside Brainspotting technique.
- Demonstrate a basic mastery of the second level advanced resource model of Brainspotting.
- Assess how specific advanced Brainspotting techniques can be used for complex PTSD and other trauma related conditions.
Trainings are open to all counselors, psychologists, social workers and others in the healing professions with strong clinical backgrounds, as well as students/interns in the mental health field who seek to expand their knowledge.
Trainers
Dr. Melanie K. Young, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist, Brainspotting Trainer, and experienced clinician based in Boulder, CO. With a deep commitment to trauma-informed care, Dr. Young has dedicated her career to helping individuals and professionals integrate Brainspotting into their practice. She brings a wealth of knowledge from years of clinical work, training, and consultation, offering engaging, hands-on instruction to therapists worldwide.
Dr. Pie Frey, PsyD, was a pioneering therapist to adopt Brainspotting and is the Senior US and Canadian Trainer. She has assisted Dr. David Grand, the developer of Brainspotting, in many training workshops and Intensive Trainings. Dr. Frey is a psychotherapist in private practice in Boulder, Colorado. She has trained thousands of BSP therapists throughout the United States and Canada in Phase 1 and Phase 2 since 2009. Dr. Frey has developed a Brainspotting setup for relieving obsessive-compulsive symptoms currently in use all around the world.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
Training will open at 8:30am on the first day.
Training runs from 9am-5:30pm each day.
Cancellation Policy
We understand situations arise. If you need to cancel or reschedule, please contact us at officemelanieyoung@gmail.com. We will provide you with a full refund if you cancel up to 14 days before the event, minus $75 administrative fee. After that, we will provide you with a full credit toward a replacement course with Melanie and/or Pie, valid for one year.