Brainspotting Training
where you look affects how you feel
Brainspotting is a powerful brain-body-mindfulness-based relational therapy used for the treatment of trauma as well as personal growth and expansion. Brainspotting is an open, integrative model, which can be used with other treatment models and adapted to many different populations and areas of specialization.
Brainspotting trainings can be either in-person or online, and there are benefits to each. If you have 7 or more people in your group, a private training may make more financial sense. Private trainings also allow a focus on your area of specialization, for example Brainspotting for Foster Care Professionals.
This training is available to all mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, psychologists, addiction counselors, as well as students and interns. All Brainspotting phase trainings led by Brooke raise funds for continued humanitarian Brainspotting trainings in Sāmoa and throughout Oceania.
Brainspotting Phase 1
This Brainspotting training includes:
- lecture, live demonstrations, and individual practice as therapist and client
- four core Brainspotting techniques
- foundational components of Brainspotting practice
- research that supports Brainspotting
- Brainspotting history
Brainspotting Phase 2
This Brainspotting training includes:
- lecture, live demonstrations, and individual practice as therapist and client
- One-Eye Brainspotting, including the use of One-Eye goggles
- 3 Dimensional Brainspotting using the Z-Axis and Convergence Therapy
- Rolling Brainspotting
- Inside-Outside Brainspotting
- Advanced Resource Model
Brainspotting with Adoption Specialty Training
for Brainspotting therapists who have completed Phase 1, this training includes
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- adoption competency information,
- working with all members of the adoption triad & those impacted by foster care,
- working with children, adults, & families,
- special populations within the adoption population,
- racism in adoption & foster care,
- Multidimensional frame setting for Brainspotting with adoption,
- and the all new Constellation set-ups for using Brainspotting with Adoption.
Adoption Training
practice excellence with the adoption constellation
I am passionate about ensuring adoptees are provided expert-level counseling. Throughout my career, I have worked with a large number of adult adoptees, children that have been adopted, expectant mothers, birth mothers, biological parents, adoptive parents, and those impacted by the foster care system. It is important for therapists to understand the impact that adoption can have on an individual and a family. Our graduate programs may not have prepared us for working with the adoption constellation, but I am happy to share resources, conceptualization, approaches, and my years of learning with any therapist wanting to better serve their clients.
Private Trainings on Adoption Therapy topics can range from 90 minutes to multiple days. I have presented on single approaches such as Trust-Based Relational Interventions (TBRI), to an introduction to adoption competency for working with the full adoption constellation. We can design a training that is interactive and consultation based or more presentation and learning based, depending on the needs of your group.
Below are some of the more popular presentations; however, you can see a full presentation list here or we can discuss personalizing something for your group.
Adoption Therapy: What You Don’t Know You Don’t Know
Those impacted by adoption – whether children or adults, parents or adoptees – face issues and variables uncommon to the general population. Treatment professionals can unitentionally increase the intensity of the situation if unfamiliar with the factors inherent to adoption and the situations that precipitate a need for a child to be adopted. Too often I have heard from adoptive parents we went to a therapist and they made it worse or adoptees saying I cannot find a therapist that gets it.
Research and therapist self-report demonstrate how poorly we are prepared to address the issues related to adoption. We will discuss a vareity of ways that you can increase your knowledge base and ethically work with adoptees and adoptive families.
Filled with research and historical information that often makes attendees gasp, this is a fun presentation for everyone.
Adoption in the Classroom: Continuing Education for Teachers, Administrators, and Parents
The variables and core issues of adoption can greatly impact the dynamics of a classroom and how a child learns. Teachers are invited to learn more about what dynamics and assignments unintentionally disrupt the classroom. Parents are invited to learn about how to share necessary information with teachers and administrators to avoid unnecessary complications.
The Problem with RAD as a diagnosis and Why Attachment Strategies Fail
Attachment difficulty should be expected and unsurprising to adoptive parents. Rather than a single diagnosis, attachment is a spectrum disorder with only the most severe cases qualifying for Reactive Attachment Disorder, but there are many problems with the diagnosis for all parties involved.
Trust has to come before attachment and many “attachment strategies” fail because they are about power rather than trust. Parents and professionals can have some skepticism about diagnoses and consider other factors that may be contributing. Participants will be able to:
- Describe the attachment process and how this is changed by adoption
- Explain the attachment spectrum
- Analyze attachment strategies for effectiveness and therapeutic value
- Name at least two other avenues of exploration that may be contributing to family struggles.
