Traditional talk therapy engages primarily the cognitive, language-based parts of the brain. And that's enormously valuable. But trauma often lives below the language centers — in the subcortical brain, the nervous system, the body itself. This is why so many people can articulate their experiences clearly and still not feel better.

 Brainspotting works differently. It engages what Dr. Grand calls the "deep brain" — the subcortical and midbrain regions where trauma, emotion, and somatic experience are stored. It does this through a deceptively simple mechanism: eye position.