A brainspot is a point in your visual field that holds the activation of what we're working on. In person, a therapist might use a pointer to help you find it. Over video, we use the screen itself and sometimes your own hand, and we find the spot the same way — I ask where the feeling gets stronger or quieter as your gaze moves, and we stay where it sharpens.
If you already know you want Brainspotting and you're in California, Illinois, Texas, DC, Virginia, or Maryland, you can skip the rest of this and email me at logan@soulworkshealing.org. The rest is for people who want to know what they're walking into first.
You'll need headphones. I use bilateral sound for most of the work, which keeps the nervous system in a slightly wider state while the processing happens, and that doesn't translate through laptop speakers. You'll also want a door that closes and roughly fifty minutes you don't have to leave in the middle of.
What to expect in a session
We start by locating what we're working on and getting a read on how strongly it registers in your body right now. Then we find the spot. Then I mostly stop talking.
That last part surprises people. Brainspotting is not a conversation, and I'm not steering it. I'm watching and staying with you while your own processing does the thing it does, which can take ten minutes or forty. You might cry, you might feel nothing for a long stretch and then feel a great deal, you might get a memory you weren't looking for. Afterward we spend time coming back and getting you steady before you close the laptop and go pick up your kid.
Does it work as well as in person?
In my experience, yes, with two honest exceptions.
If you dissociate heavily and lose track of where you are, having another person physically present is a real anchor, and video gives you less of one. I'd want to do stabilization work with you first — guided imagery, somatic resourcing — before we go near activating material. The other exception is practical. People without a private space at home have a harder time, because processing while listening for a roommate's footsteps doesn't go anywhere good.
Neither of those is a reason to skip online Brainspotting. They're reasons to tell me in a consultation, so we sequence the work properly instead of discovering it in session three.
What I noticed over video that I didn't expect
The camera crops you to the top third of your body, and I thought that would cost me information. It gave me different information instead. Blink rate is unmistakable on a screen — the moment someone's eyes slow and settle a few inches left of the lens, something has opened, and I can see it more plainly on video than I could across a room. Breath at the collarbone is easier to catch too.
I've stopped treating online as the compromise version. It's a different vantage point with its own advantages, and the work goes where it goes either way.
Learn how brainspotting compares to EMDR
About my Brainspotting training
I completed Accredited Brainspotting Phase 1 through Awaken Consulting Services in January 2026, after Level 1 and Level 2 training under Georgiana Mora, LCSW. I also work in somatic parts-work and expressive arts therapy, and I hold an interpersonal neurobiology lens across all of it, which matters here because Brainspotting isn't a technique I run in isolation. It sits alongside the rest of what we're doing.
I work with complex and relational trauma, sexual assault recovery, anxiety and panic, and people renegotiating who they are against who they were raised to be.
One practical note
Brainspotting opens things. I'm not available for crisis response between sessions, so if you're currently in acute distress, that's worth naming in the consultation so we can talk about whether this is the right moment and what other support you want in place. If you're in immediate danger, 988 is the number.
Where to start
What the twenty minutes actually involves
Bring your questions about whether this translates to your situation. I'd rather tell you we should stabilize first than sell you a session you can't use yet.
It's a video call, it's free, and it's twenty minutes. You don't have to tell me your history — I'd rather you didn't, since there's no way to do that well in twenty minutes and no reason to open it with someone you haven't decided on yet.
Mostly you ask me things. What I'd do with your situation, how I work, what the fee tiers mean, whether you need something I don't offer. I'll tell you if I'm not the right fit and I'll usually have a name for you instead. Nobody follows up afterward to sell you a package, because there's only me here and I don't do that.
Book a free consultation, or email me directly at logan@soulworkshealing.org if a calendar link feels like too much today. Both reach the same person.
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