Theory Flashcards
Where You Look Affects How You Feel
4 Components (Brain, Body, Relationship, Neurobiology)
Looking to the Left or Right feels different
Can Access Greatest Resource or Activation
and Gain Access to Neurobiology
Uncertainty Principle vs. Certainty Principle
Uncertainty is No Assumptions Model - Tied to Attunement
Certainty Takes Us Out of the Tail of the Comet
Based on Infinite Nature of Brain 1 - 4 Quadrillion Connections
Uncertainty Leads to Attunement
Certainty Blocks Attunement
Dual Attunement Frame
The Frame Allows Processing that Wouldn’t Otherwise Happen
All We Have in the Face of Uncertainty is Client’s Wisdom - Fosters Healing
Relational
Core of Psychotherapy - Attuned Presence
Non-Judgmental, Grounded, Mindful, Witnessing
Neurobiological Attunement - Allows Processing to Happen with an Activated Issue, Body awareness and Eye position
Relational and Neurobiological Attunement - Frame Allows for Inside Out Healing
Tail of the Comet
Focused Mindfulness/Processing
Metaphore for BSP
Attunement of Therapist to Process of Client
Following/Not Leading
Process of Falling Out and In of Attunement (Limbic Transference)
The Frame
Client Brings in the Frame
We Hold the Frame - Activated Issue, Body, Eye Position
Allows Processing that Wouldn’t Happen Otherwise
Limbic Countertransference
Unconscious
Primary Reason for Falling Out of Attunement
Natural/Inevitable
Secondary Exposure to Client’s Trauma
Our Own Vulnerability
Limbic System
Perceives Danger
Fight/Flight/Freeze
Trauma memories are Encapsulated
BSP as a Resource Model
Taps into the Clients Natural Essential Resource
BSP is a Resource Model - Even in Activated Eye Position
Focused Practice with Attuned Frame is a Resource
Resource Model
Use when outside the Window of Tolerance
Built on Body Resource
Gains Access to Resources
2 Models of Brainspotting
Activation
Resource
Sitting in Uncertainty
Holding Dual Attunement Frame
Sitting in the Tail
All of this is a Resource
Helps the Clients own System find what was lost or dissociated
When to Use Activation vs Resource Model
Most Clients can Process on Activation Spot
Resource used when Outside Window of Tolerance
Dissociation, CPTSD, Attachment Disorders/DID
Dysregulation to Regulation
All Clients come into therapy - Dysregulated
Emotionally, physically, cognitively
Goal of BSP to move from dysregulation to regulation
Not a Straight Line - Bring Client back to Regulation
The Brain
Agranular Isocortex and AlloCortex are Involved in Brain Regulation
Bypass the parts of brain not involved in regulation and access those parts that are
Bypass granular isocortex
Access Agranular isocortex - Located behind the eyes and bridge of nose
Allocortex (Limbic Cortex)
Access Superior Colliculi -
WAIT
Why am I talking
Disrupts Focused Mindfulness
Falls out of the Tail
Z - Axis
Attachment
SUDS go up when we move further on Z
Can also go up with closer
Dx Indicator of Attachment Issues
80% People Prefer Further Away
Case Conceptualization
Session #1 - Go Over Goals, Gaps, Pointer
Session #2 - 3 Theory
Sessions #4 - 5 Practice/Case Consults
Own BSP
Highly Recommended
Guidelines for Consultations - 6 Sessions
Find Gaps
Overview Theory and Practice
Dual Attainment
Uncertainty
WAIT
Terms
Dysregulation
Psycho-Ed on Brain
Review Set-Ups
Tail of Comet
Consultee Must
50 Sessions
Write-Up
Pay for Certification
Vergence
Used for Anxiety
When Stuck - Looping
Looking back and forth from tip of pointer 3 - 10 seconds
Shifts the whole system / Calms heart rate
3 Core Ways for Find Brain Spot
3 Legs
Outside Window
Inside Window
Gaze Spot
Outside Window
Issue/Activation/Body/SUD
Look for Reflex - X Axis
Inside Window
Issue/Activation/Body/SUD
X Axis and Y Axis
Client Reports
Gaze Spot
Client is Talking
Ask if they are Activated
SUD - If Organic
Body
- I’m noticing that you are upset and I’d like to invite you to notice and hold the spot
- Tell me more
Body Resource Set-up
Processing from Physiological - Calm State
Body Resource and Resource Eye Position - Frame
Issue
Activation
NO SUDS
Where do you feel most grounded, calm or neutral
Eye Position
One Eye Brainspotting Set-up (Goggles)
Used for Dissociation/Developmental Trauma, Attention Deficit/Anxiety
