Body Resource Brainspotting is used in Brainspotting to support eye-position and body-based trauma processing. The therapist applies it collaboratively, protects pacing and consent, and keeps the clinical focus on brainspot rather than on technique for its own sake.
Step-by-step guide
- Establish consent, safety and the shared clinical focus.
- Introduce body resource brainspotting in simple language connected to the current session target.
- Track the client’s emotional, bodily and relational response step by step.
- Slow down when activation, shame, conflict or dissociation rises too quickly.
- Help the client notice what changes and what remains unfinished.
- Integrate the result into the next clinical task or between-session observation.
When to use
- When eye-position and body-based trauma processing is clinically relevant.
- When the client can stay oriented enough to work with the target safely.
- When a structured intervention is more useful than general supportive conversation.
Key phrases
Let us slow this down and work with body resource brainspotting one step at a time.
Follow-up questions
What changes when we stay with the most important part of this, without rushing?
Alternative phrasings
We can pause if this becomes too much.
Notice what your body and emotions are doing right now.
What would make this safer or clearer to bring into the work?
Warnings
- ⚠️ Do not use the technique without enough safety, consent and pacing.
- ⚠️ Do not force disclosure, insight, memory access or repair before the client is ready.
- ⚠️ Stop or simplify the intervention when the client loses orientation or regulation.
Source: Brainspotting / David Grand
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