Brain spotting for trauma

@sincereIdea8304 I don't have personal experience with brainspotting, but here are some thoughts.

Brainspotting is a new and unproven treatment. If it was cheap, it might be worth trying. If it's expensive, that might be a good reason to try the standard treatment first.

The standard treatment for trauma is called imaginal exposure. It requires specialist training, and a lot of therapists can't do it. Some therapists might try to do imaginal exposure without the training, and that might not work very well. Note that a license to practice therapy (in those places that require it) does not guarantee any particular specialist training at all.

There's an earlier unproven treatment called EMDR. It's similar to brainspotting but it's been around a lot longer. This means it's probably cheaper. If you've tried imaginal exposure with a therapist who has the specialist training, and it didn't work well, then it might be worth trying EMDR with a therapist who has that specialist training, and if even that doesn't work well, then it might be worth trying something else like brainspotting.

Here's an article about EMDR in Scientific American: EMDR: Taking a Closer Look. Brainspotting is newer and even less well established than EMDR.

Charlie

@sincereIdea8304 I have no personal experience with brain spotting, but it is not a generally accepted therapy method in the therapy community. Some people say it is a way to charge people a lot of money for an unproven treatment that does not make any sense to me. I do not have to be a rocket scientist to know if something makes sense. I asked a professional psychologist about it and they could not tell me one scientifically based thing about brain spotting. It is a radical approach invented by one person. If it was presented to me as an option I would get a new therapist that uses accepted therapy practices in the psychology community. This is the student doctor network take on brain spotting by several of its members which is what the psychologist I consulted said, a money grab. https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/brainspotting.1415275/

@sincereIdea8304 I have no personal experience with brain spotting, but it is not a generally accepted therapy method in the therapy community. Some people say it is a way to charge people a lot of money for an unproven treatment that does not make any sense to me. I do not have to be a rocket scientist to know if something makes sense.

I asked a professional psychologist about it and they could not tell me one scientifically based thing about brain spotting. If it was presented to me as an option I would get a new therapist that uses accepted therapy practices in the psychology community.

This is the student doctor network take on brain spotting by several of its members which is what the psychologist I consulted said, a money grab. https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/brainspotting.1415275/