brainspotting therapy in Tacoma wa

You feel overwhelmed.

Emotions overwhelm you. Depression leaves you without motivation to do much of the basics. Or anxiety goes into overdrive and you feel on edge all the time. You don't always understand your feelings as sometimes they pop up out of nowhere, but you wish you felt less up and down and more at ease. 

When you get overwhelmed, you tend to numb out, eat, binge Netflix, or doomscroll. You know you’r avoiding something, but you’re not sure what exactly. Other times it’s the opposite—you try have some sort of sense of control, but it leaves you feeling a little neurotic instead. Challenges in life don't bother you, you expect them on occasion, but right now you feel like you are constantly pushing uphill just to get through the day. If only you could turn down the volume of your inner critic and be more kind to yourself. 

You’ve tried talk therapy before and learned some tools, but you want deeper change. You have a lot of “head knowledge,” but it hasn’t changed how you feel. You long to feel lighter in your body and heart. You wish you were further along, but the shame still hangs around.

If you relate to this, then brainspotting therapy might be a good fit for you.

brainspotting therapy in tacoma, wa

My name is Kate Hagborg, LMHC, and I provide counseling for women in Tacoma, WA to help you go beyond “head knowledge” and experience lasting change at a deep level.

Brainspotting is a body-and-brain-based therapy that promotes rapid, permanent, and deep change through a gentle method.

Brainspotting therapy can help you:

• Heal from trauma

• Feel more at peace in your body

• Be more present in your day-to-day life

• Change relationship patterns

• Feel more confident

• Overcome creative blocks

• Increase your performance

• And more!

In brainspotting, we use eye positioning to access the limbic system part of the brain where trauma and negative core beliefs are held. This is the part of the brain that regulates our emotions and nervous system. 

Talk therapy, on the other hand, accesses a different part of the brain that is more logical and theoretical—the prefrontal cortex. Talk therapy can be very useful for gaining insights, learning skills, and problem-solving. But when it comes to trauma and core beliefs, talk therapy often doesn’t go deep enough.

With brainspotting, we are tapping into your brain and body’s natural ability to heal itself. 

Kind of like computer software that can locate a corrupted file that needs to be debugged, brainspotting can help you get to the source of an issue and allow your brain to reprocess the “corrupted files,” so to speak, so that you can rewrite those neural pathway for the better. 

how does a brainspotting session work?

Together we will determine what the issue is you want to work on.  Then I will help you find an eye position in your visual field. This is called our brainspot. 

I will guide you through thinking about that issue while practicing mindfulness, self-compassion, and curiosity. This allows the brain and body to do that deep reprocessing work that they were designed to do. 

By the end of the session, clients often feel that an internal shift has occurred. And what’s really cool is that your brain will continue this processing for hours or even days after the session. 

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Clients that I have done brainspotting with not only notice that they’re able to experience deep levels of change related to the issues we are working on, but they also learn to embody a deeper level of self-compassion and attunement to their own emotions that transcends into every area of their life. 

This therapy is revolutionary in so many ways. If you’d like to learn more about if brainspotting is right for you, give me a call for a free 15-minute phone consultation to see if we’d be a good fit. I look forward to connecting with you.