Brainspot Your Way To Your Best Self
A service for athletes, artists, musicians, and professionals as well as those seeking to enhance or explore possibilites within themselves.
TLB Performance Enhancement And Coaching
Are you interested in enhancing your skills, gaining more confidence or getting out of a slump? Performance enhancement is geared toward supporting those who wish to grow their creative energies, increase confidence, gain access to their best selves, or deepen their understanding and connection to their life’s purpose and their own abilities. Through a combination of brainspotting and coaching, we will explore and uncover access to your best self in a specific area.
How Brainspotting works
Our eyes and brains are intricately woven together and signals sent from our eyes are deeply processed in the brain which then reflexively and intuitively redirects where we look. Adverse life experiences and stress can overwhelm the brain’s processing capacity, causing our brain to function less effectively. Brainspotting uses our field of vision to find where we are holding these experiences, seeking the specific internal spot where the experience is stored. It then allows deep, non-verbal processing to release and resolve whatever is held. Brainspotting is based on the premise that the brain is naturally self-healing and the role of the administrator is to set and hold a frame that promotes the participants innate self-healing capacities.
Why is Brainspotting helpful for performance enhancement?
Brainspotting (BSP) is a powerful brain-based intervention that helps our brains repair neural connections that have been modified due to stress, injuries, or confusing and upsetting events. BSP can help to rewire and heal modified pathways that may have been impacted by certain experiences, allowing us to have a more conscious awareness of our bodies and responses.
Brainspotting enhancement is an ideal support for those seeking to work through performance related anxiety, fear after an injury or are in a “slump” with their performance and want to boost confidence. It is also helpful for professionals and entrepreneurs who may be struggling with public speaking, motivation, or setting work / life boundaries.
Performance Enhancement Brainspotting Can Help With:
Performance anxiety
Low motivation
Fear after an injury
Imposter syndrome
No longer enjoying your sport, profession or creative space
Being in a performance " slump" or creative block
Increasing self awareness
Increase self confidence and clarity in decision making
Feeling “lost” and uncertain about your life’s path
Wanting to take it to the “next level”
Other resources to learn more:
TLB Performance Enhancement and Coaching Site: www.tlbperformance.com
Brainspotting website: https://brainspotting.com/
Book; This is Your Brain on Sports, Beating Blocks, Slumps and Performance Anxiety for Good! by David Grand, PhD.
Book; Dr. Dyslexia’s Guide to Sports Psychology for Equestrians by Margot Nacey, ED.D
Healing Trauma from Sports with brainspotting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z56NOgo8wPc
30 for 30 Shorts featuring Mickey Sasser, MLB star, who used brainspotting: https://grantland.com/features/30-for-30-shorts-fields-of-fear/
Equestrian Specific Performance Work
Katie specializes in working with equestrians who may be seeking to recover from an injury/ fall or traumatic experience with their horse, overcome performance anxiety, or simply enhance the connection with their horse. In addition to being a certified brainspotting practitioner, Katie is also trained in equine assisted therapy, is an equestrian herself and has a passion for understanding of how horses and humans impact each other. She uses this intersection of professional training and personal experience to guide and deepen the process when working with horses and their humans.
Because of horses' sensitivity to our energy, Brainspotting can also enhance the effectiveness of training sessions, removing negative energies and history we may be carrying, and increasing healthy connection to our horse.
BSP is not a replacement for work with a trainer, but an additional support for the rider/ handler.
Sessions with equestrians can be done in person in my Westbrook office, via telehealth or at your barn with your horse present ( within a 20 mile radius of Gray, ME)
Performance Enhancement FAQs
The number of sessions for performance enhancement work depends on desired outcome and presenting issues/ background. Typically 3-5 sessions yields positive outcome. Sessions can be spaced weeks to months apart depending on client need. Each client is different and it can be difficult to know for sure how many sessions will be needed to achieve the desired outcome.
This work will begin with a free 20 minute discovery call to assess if performance enhancement is what you are looking for to reach your goals. Our first 90 minute session will include a goal setting and history taking component before we begin brainspotting. Each session after will consist of 90 minutes of brainspotting and/or coaching.
This offering is not therapy, and not a billable service for insurance ( even OON). You will not be assigned a mental health diagnosis for this work. If it appears that therapy would be a better fit to address your concerns, therapy will be suggested during the initial discovery call.
BSP Enhancement session (90 min) - $225
