brainspotting therapy in Tacoma wa

have you tried talk therapy and still feel stuck?

You are ready for deep and lasting change.  And you’re not afraid to put in the work. On a cognitive level, you know the right answers, but when it comes to how you actually feel, you still feel stuck. You’ve read all the books, and listened to all the podcasts—but still you can’t shake the negative thoughts and incessant worries.

Maybe you’ve tried talk therapy before, and it helped a little bit, but it wasn’t the kind of deep-down change you were hoping for.  You learned some tools, but you want more than just coping skills. You want healing at the source.

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 in the brain through a gentle method.

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. 

This allows you to heal from trauma, experience more peace in your body, feel more present, change recurring relationship patterns, feel more positive and confident about yourself. You can even use brainspotting to increase your creativity or performance in an area of life, or strengthen areas of resilience.

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.