brainspotting certification consultation

Learning Brainspotting is one thing.

Learning to trust yourself as a Brainspotting clinician is another.

Certification consultation gives us the opportunity to bridge that gap.

My approach to consultation goes beyond reviewing techniques, setups, and certification requirements. I want you to understand what you are witnessing when you sit across from a client—and to develop the clinical confidence to remain present, attuned, and grounded when the process becomes complex.

Because Brainspotting isn't simply about knowing where to place the pointer or what set-up to use.

It's about learning how to be with what emerges.

From Learning Brainspotting to Practicing Brainspotting

After Phase 1 and Phase 2, many clinicians understand the foundations of Brainspotting but still find themselves wondering:

Am I doing this right?

Should I intervene here?

Is this processing—or is the client overwhelmed?

What am I witnessing when the client becomes quiet, disconnected, highly activated, or suddenly shifts?

Do I follow this—or do I do something?

These questions don't necessarily mean you need another technique.

Often, they mean you are developing the clinical judgment that comes from experience, reflection, trauma literacy, and learning to trust the Neuroexperiential Model.

That is the work I want to help you develop.

Consultation That Develops the Clinician

—not Just the Technique

Brainspotting certification matters. But my goal is bigger than helping you complete the requirements for certification.

I want consultation to help you become a more confident Brainspotting clinician.

Together, we explore the clinical work underneath the technique:

understanding trauma adaptations and nervous system responses
recognizing activation, shutdown, dissociation, attachment dynamics, and internal conflict
strengthening dual attunement
developing your capacity to tolerate uncertainty
recognizing when your own nervous system wants to intervene, fix, direct, or move the process
making sense of complex clinical presentations without taking over the client's process
maintaining the Brainspotting frame while remaining responsive to the person in front of you
trusting the client's neuroexperiential process while holding the therapeutic frame

Brainspotting is the tool.

Trauma literacy helps us understand what the tool may be revealing.

And consultation is where we learn to bring those pieces together.

Areas Where I Bring Particular

—Clinical Depth

The clinicians I consult with work with many different populations and presenting concerns. You do not need to share my clinical specialties to work with me.

At the same time, I believe part of choosing a consultant is knowing the clinical experience they bring into the room.

I bring particular depth of experience in working with:

Complex PTSD and developmental trauma
Betrayal trauma
Toxic and harmful relationship recovery
Medical trauma
Chronic pain and the intersection of physical and emotional experience

These are often complex clinical presentations. What appears in a Brainspotting session may involve much more than a single memory or identifiable target. Attachment, relational learning, physiological adaptations, beliefs about self and others, protective responses, pain, dissociation, and present-day stressors can all become part of what we are witnessing.

My experience with these populations informs how I think about Brainspotting—but it does not limit the work we can explore together.

Bring your clients. Bring your questions. Bring the moments that leave you wondering, “What am I witnessing?”

Consultation gives us a place to think about them together.

I Want You to Develop

—Your Own Clinical Voice

I don't want you to become a version of me.

And I don't believe certification consultation should teach you to imitate the consultant.

Your experience, clinical training, personality, population, and way of connecting with clients all come with you into Brainspotting.

Consultation should help you integrate Brainspotting into who you already are as a clinician while continuing to develop the capacities this work asks of us: attunement, curiosity, discernment, humility, presence, and trust.

Over time, the question begins to shift from:

“Am I doing Brainspotting correctly?”

to:

“What am I witnessing, and how can I remain attuned to the process that is unfolding?”

That shift matters.

Because certification isn't the end of learning Brainspotting.

It's the beginning of trusting yourself enough to practice it.