What Is Brain Spotting & Why Do You Need It?
Brain Spotting
Brain Spotting is a healing and performance enhancing method that works through the body, not just the mind.
In plain terms: when something overwhelming happens, the body stores fragments of that experience, tension, fear, shame, or loss, below the level of words. Those fragments often stay “stuck,” driving anxiety, overthinking, or emotional reactivity even years later.
Brain Spotting helps locate and release those frozen points by using where you look (your eye position) to access where the brain has stored the unprocessed material. While you focus on a “brainspot,” the therapist or coach guides you to stay present and curious as your nervous system naturally begins to integrate and calm.
It’s not hypnosis or talk therapy. It’s more like finding the body’s GPS coordinates for unhealed pain and letting your system finish what it started.
People use it for trauma, anxiety, grief, creative blocks, and peak performance.
The premise: where you look affects how you feel, and what you can heal.
Welcome to the Center for Brainspotting,
Therapy & Coaching.
Hey! Athletes, Artists, Entrepreneurs, Corporate Professional, Doctors, Lawers, Adoptive Parents... the list is endless! people come here when doing more, trying harder, or staying strong just isn’t enough.
We help you move from stuck to in flow, from stress and striving to grounded power and peace & transformation. Using Brainspotting, we access the body’s natural ability to release what’s been stored in the nervous system: performance anxiety, creative blocks, burnout, grief, or the weight of old trauma, your own or someone else’s.
A session may include:
Locating visual “brainspots” that connect to the emotions or experiences your body still carries.
Allowing your system to process, integrate, and release, without forcing words or explanations.
Integrating brain-based regulation with relational safety and, when desired, a spiritual framework for healing and restoration.
For anyone carrying stress, pain, or pressure, Brainspotting opens the door back to ease.
For the driven, it restores focus without burnout.
For the creative, it unlocks expression without fear.
For the caregiver, it brings calm and connection beneath the noise.
For the leader, it rebuilds clarity and confidence from the inside out.
The work is deep yet gentle, shifts that feel instant but reach to the core.
You don’t just cope; you transform, living, creating, and leading from a renewed sense of flow and purpose.
🙌😭 Thanking our Lord for answering my prayers to heal and set my beautiful sister FREE from all her trauma and suffering!!!🙏🙏🙏
Maxine, I don’t have enough words to thank you. God is using you to heal the brokenhearted and set the captives free through the redeeming love and power of Christ!!! Love & appreciate you so much!!!!🙌🥹💝😘
• Karen | USA
Freedom After 20 Years of Pain She had been in pain for over twenty years. Her body ached constantly, and sleep was a stranger. After just one Brainspotting session, everything changed. She released years of tension, grief, and trauma that had been stored in her body. That night, she slept like a baby-for the first time in decades. The next morning, the pain was gone. Completely. Now she moves freely and rests deeply, saying, > "Brainspotting gave me my life back-and my sleep."
From Addiction to Purpose For over 30 years, she lived under the weight of alcohol addiction, buried in guilt, shame, and anxiety. Her relationships were shattered, her hope nearly gone. After just three Brainspotting sessions, she began to release what had held her captive for decades. The shame, the guilt, the belief that she was beyond redemption-all began to lift. Today, she's walking in freedom. Sober. Peaceful. Living out her God-given purpose with a clear mind and a steady heart. Healing is possible. Freedom is real.
Anxiety Released: A Child Finds Her Calm At just eleven years old, anxiety ruled her days. Tight chest. Sleepless nights. Worry that never stopped. In her first Brainspotting session, she simply noticed where the fear lived, how it felt. Bit by bit, her body began to trust calm again. Now she walks with confidence, no longer followed by fear. Her mom says, "It's like the real her finally came back." And she says softly, "I'm not scared anymore."
Maxine Khan-Golden is the founder of the Center for Brain spotting, Therapy & Coaching. A Marriage & Family Therapy Associate & Brain Spotting Practitioner, she helps Athletes, Artists, Adoptive Parents, Entrepreneurs & Business Owners and Anyone Else who needs it to get unstuck, so they can perform, create, connect & transform their lives.
Her approach integrates neuroscience, IFS (Internal family Systems), guiding clients toward deep emotional healing and lasting transformation. Through her work, Maxine’s mission is to release restore & transform lives.
Common Concerns & Questions on Who Brain Spotting is For
Q: How does Brain Spotting Help Artistes & Creatives?
Art flows through an open channel, but stress, trauma, and criticism can shut that channel down. Brainspotting helps dissolve those blocks so expression feels free again. It reconnects the artist to their natural rhythm, confidence, and voice.
Q: Why would an Athlete need Brain Spotting?
Because talent isn’t the problem tension is. When pressure, fear, or past injuries live in the body, performance slips. Brain Spotting helps athletes release mental blocks and re-train their nervous systems for calm, power, and flow under pressure.
Q: Can Brain Spotting Help Health Care Workers?
Yes, it can! Health care workers need to do Brain Spotting to release secondary trauma and stress, restore focus, and prevent burnout, helping them stay grounded and provide more compassionate care.
Mental Health Professionals need to do Brain Spotting for themselves to process compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and emotional residue from client work. It helps them stay regulated, clear, and grounded, so they can hold space for others without absorbing their pain.
Q: Why Teachers & Educators Need Brain Spotting?
Teachers & Educators need Brain Spotting to release stress and burnout, restore emotional balance, and improve focus and patience with students.
Q: What does this Have to do with Business?
Everything! hidden stress, burnout, and fear of failure hijack clarity and leadership. Brain Spotting clears the mental noise and restores intuitive decision-making, so you can lead from focus, not fight-or-flight.
To Be Honest
Brainspotting isn’t just for the above it’s for anyone with a nervous system. Whether it’s stress, grief, performance blocks, or just wanting more clarity and calm, it helps the brain and body let go of what’s stuck so natural balance can return.
