you may have a lot of insight, but still feel stuck
Maybe you've been in therapy before, or you've spent time reflecting on your childhood and relationships. You understand where certain patterns come from and can recognize when you're people-pleasing, overworking, or shutting down.
You’re self-aware, but you still find yourself repeating the same patterns that you want to break free from.
Understanding something intellectually isn't always enough to change what your nervous system has learned through years of experience.
That's where Brainspotting therapy provides another path forward.
At Spiral & Bloom, Brainspotting therapy is part of a holistic approach to healing that makes room for your mind, body, spirit, and the experiences that have shaped you.
what is brainspotting therapy?
Brainspotting is a type of therapy that helps us access and process experiences that may be difficult to work through with talking alone.
During a session, we'll start with something you'd like support around. This might be a stressful experience, a memory, an emotion, or a pattern in your life that you’d like to change.
As you bring your attention to that experience, I'll invite you to notice what happens inside your body. You might notice tension in your chest, a knot in your stomach, an emotion, an image, or another sensation.
From there, we may explore where you naturally look or find a particular point in your visual field to focus on. In Brainspotting, certain eye positions can help bring an internal experience into clearer focus.
Instead of immediately trying to analyze or explain what you're feeling, we slow down and stay with what comes up. You may talk during this process, or you may spend some time quietly noticing what’s happening. The idea is to give your brain and body time and space to process experiences that may still feel unresolved.
This can be especially helpful if you’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand your experiences intellectually but still find yourself having the same emotional or physical responses. Brainspotting offers another way to approach those experiences by including the body in the conversation, not just the mind.
2 & 3-DAY BRAINSPOTTING INTENSIVES
Choose a 2 or 3-day brainspotting intensive. Both options include three hours of in-person therapy each day plus 80-minute intake and follow-up sessions that can be done either in-person in Fresno or via telehealth.
If you’ve tried talk therapy or done self-reflection before, you may understand your patterns, know where they come from, and why you respond the way you do.
But understanding why doesn't always mean you can change it.
You can know that you're safe while your body continues to brace for something to go wrong. Or, you can understand why you people-please and still struggle to say no. Insight can be an important part of healing, but some of what we carry isn't held only in our thoughts. Our bodies and nervous systems learn, adapt, and hold onto what we’ve survived.
Many Western or Eurocentric therapy approaches emphasize insight, analysis, and putting our experiences into words. They don’t leave enough room for the body, intuition, spirituality, culture, or the larger systems that shape our lives.
For Women of Color especially, healing cannot be separated from our families, cultural identities, communities, histories, and experiences of navigating the world.
Brainspotting therapy honors the full context of who you are, while providing your body and mind space to process past experiences, relationships, trauma, or stress that’s gotten stuck.
you want more than traditional talk therapy
Many of the women I work with have spent much of their lives paying close attention to everyone else. They notice the energy in the room, anticipate and accommodate other people’s needs, and keep their families afloat.
For those of us navigating life as Women of Color, these patterns exist within additional layers of cultural expectations, gender roles, family responsibility, racism, immigration, intergenerational trauma, and the experiences of surviving oppressive systems and spaces.
You may have learned that…
being strong is necessary
taking care of others comes before taking care of yourself
there isn't space to fall apart
you need to hide, change, or soften parts of yourself to be loved and accepted
At Spiral & Bloom, therapy is a welcoming space just for you where we can explore and honor all of you, not just the symptoms that brought you in. You don’t have to perform or hide parts of yourself here. You can come just as you are.
therapy for women who've had to leave themselves behind
knowing why doesn’t always change how
return to your inner wisdom
When you live in survival mode, it can be harder to hear your own voice. You may know what everyone else needs before you know what you need, or look to others for reassurance before trusting your instincts. You might have a gut feeling, but talk yourself out of it.
As women, we’re often disconnected from our inner wisdom because we’ve been taught not to trust ourselves or listen to our bodies.
Brainspotting therapy creates opportunities to turn your attention inward and notice what your body is telling you. And I’ll support you as you reconnect with the intuitive and spiritual parts of yourself that may not always communicate through logic or language.
is brainspotting therapy a good fit?
You may want to explore Brainspotting therapy if you:
- Have tried talk therapy, but still feel stuck
- Feel like you keep repeating patterns you consciously want to change
- Have insight, but your body still reacts to triggers
- Feel disconnected from yourself or your body
- Have past experiences impacting your present
- Want a therapeutic approach that centers the mind-body connection
- Are looking for a Woman of Color or Asian therapist who honors the complexity of your culture, identity, and lived experience
- Want to reconnect with your intuition, inner wisdom, or spiritual self
- Feel ready to move beyond analyzing your life and into a body-based approach
I offer Brainspotting therapy for women in Fresno, California, with virtual therapy available throughout California.
If you're curious about whether this approach may be right for you, I’d love to chat! Please reach out for a free consultation. Change and healing is possible!
