Grace Community Counseling & Social Services, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7637. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Grace Community Counseling & Social Services, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. BIPOC/Persons of Color only trainings do not qualify for CEs. BIPOC trainings receive a certificate of completion.
Who
Online Brainspotting Training For Mental Health and Healthcare Professionals | Addiction Counselors | Professional Counselors | Social Workers | Psychologists | Marriage and Family Therapists | Psychiatrists | Nurse Practitioners | Occupational Therapists | Executive/Life Coaches | Naturopaths | Acupuncturists | Birth Workers
What
Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of challenging symptoms. Brainspotting is a simultaneous form of diagnosis and treatment, enhanced with BioLateral sound, which is deep, direct, powerful yet focused and containing.
Why Inclusive (BIPOC & Non-Bipoc attendees)
Brainspotting: Intersectionality & Social Justice
Brainspotting: Intersectionality & Social Justice is an experiential and clinically grounded training that explores how identity, culture, power, oppression, privilege, and lived experience shape the nervous system, the therapeutic relationship, and the healing process.
This training invites Brainspotting practitioners to deepen their awareness of the ways multiple identities intersect within both client and therapist, influencing safety, attunement, access, belonging, and the capacity for healing. Participants will examine how social, cultural, historical, and systemic experiences may become embodied and carried within the nervous system, often extending beyond what can be understood through an individual or intrapsychic lens alone.
Through the Brainspotting framework of dual attunement, participants will explore the importance of cultural humility, resonance, embodiment, implicit bias, power dynamics, and social location within the therapeutic field. Attention will also be given to how practitioners can remain present with difference without centering themselves, collapsing into shame, bypassing difficult realities, or requiring clients from marginalized communities to educate or protect the therapist.
This training is not about achieving cultural mastery or arriving at a final place of “competence.” Rather, it is an invitation into deeper noticing, curiosity, responsibility, and embodied awareness.
Participants will have opportunities for didactic learning, reflection, experiential exercises, Brainspotting practice, and dialogue that support greater capacity to work across difference while honoring the uniqueness of each person’s lived experience.
The training is designed for clinicians and Brainspotting practitioners across identities and cultural backgrounds who desire to integrate intersectionality and social justice more intentionally into their clinical practice.
Participants will explore:
- Intersectionality as a framework for understanding identity, lived experience, and nervous system adaptation
- The impact of culture, oppression, privilege, and systemic experiences on healing
- Power and social location within the therapeutic relationship
- Cultural humility and implicit bias in Brainspotting practice
- Embodiment, resonance, and the Dual Attunement Frame
- The distinction between intention and impact
- Navigating rupture, discomfort, difference, and repair
- Creating greater safety and belonging without assuming sameness
- Supporting marginalized clients without pathologizing culturally adaptive responses
- The practitioner’s responsibility for ongoing self-reflection, awareness, and growth
At its heart, this training asks practitioners to consider not only where the client is looking, but also the social, cultural, historical, and relational context from which both client and therapist are looking.
Healing does not occur outside of context. Neither does Brainspotting.
When
May 21-23, 2027
Where
via Zoom
REgistration link for Brainspotting: Intersectionality & Social Justice May 21-23, 2027
Meet the heart of Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC
I am available and motivated to share who I am, what I have and what I know with you. Brainspotting is necessary, especially in a time such as this. Brainspotting is an anti-oppression, non-compliance power-tool for healing. Brainspotting is relational and neurobiological inherently whereby we work "bottom-up". Our motto is simply this, "where you look affects how you feel." We use vision, the eyes for access into the brain and body.
As an American, Black bodied woman, acculturated by dominant cultured, White, God-loving, socio-economically upper middle-class persons during childhood, passionate about equity and inclusion, I was called to action. Since becoming the first Black female Brainspotting trainer in the world, my awesome, welcomed, burden has been without ceasing. Dr. David Grand is my mentor, friend and developer/founder of Brainspotting. Our initial encounter was at the very first Persons of Color training in Atlanta, GA at which I am the midwife.
The call to action came at no expectation and quite honestly, a huge surprise I had not prepared for. I started my Brainspotting journey with one desire, to heal the wounded while addressing my own wounds. (It's imperative, especially as clinicians, to do our work...starting with self...the idea here is "heal the healer.") I was resistant to participate with the Persons of Color project due to a lack of understanding; my initial thoughts were around segregation, separation which were all initial fears given my upbringing and belief in inclusion. I lacked understanding of the need for Persons of Color to have a sacred space due to our Nation's horrific history and the marginalized experience. For the record: BIPOC is an acronym for Black Indigenous Persons of Color and by no means represents "Anti-White." From my belief and demonstration, ALL people are created by the Creator! (Just saying for clarity)
Having grown up privileged, I had no idea what subordination, subjugation, lack of access, discrimination and the like really meant from an experiential perspective. Leaving home... my sweet spot of safety, familiarity, love, understanding and protection embodied through my upbringing seemingly became fleeting it the world at large. As I started to study, learn and experience, it became evident the remnants of the weaponization perpetrated on folks of my culture/race was imbued to many due to their sexuality, race, gender, socio-economic status, etc. Reluctantly I answered the call and became impassioned by the idea of inclusion for all in tandem with the beat of my heart and soul.
This reckoning of social identities, social location, American, woman, Black, educated, my bi-cultured son (Black & Guatemalan American) all came into the frame. The unrest of 2020 created a fear I had never imagined. I became afraid for me and my neighbors' democracy. Our Nation, the United States of America, became polarized with division unlike anything I had ever seen in my life time.
During this fretful time, the pandemic was claiming lives by the thousands, New York City was under siege, medical workers were risking their lives to provide care, George Floyd was murdered on camera, panic and isolation were common place, and we faced the greatest uncertainty ever. I was mortified, confused, scared, and desired for Americans to come together and not be separated by sex, race, religion, education, culture...I understood the importance of being American, being a good neighbor.
So here we are, in 2026. This is an opportunity to change the trajectory for ourselves and others. I received an email from a White person that want to learn how to be with non-White clients. She expressed a need to attend a BIPOC training. I explained to her the meaning of and for BIPOC trainings. Then realized, the reason I had received numerous emails from people I didn't know asking for consultation on being with folks. of color is simply this...professionally and personally, there are huge separation. Many of us have not sought "different from me" for interaction therefore, the division creates unawareness and awkwardness. Interestingly, clinicians are awakening to the fact of culture matters, acceptance matters, equity matters, inclusion matters and is a must.
Brainspotting Phase 1 Training--Welcome! January 8-10, 2027
https://gracetrainings.aidaform.com/brainspotting-phase-1-training-january-8-10-2027
Online Brainspotting Training For Mental Health and Healthcare Professionals
Addiction Counselors | Professional Counselors | Social Workers | Psychologists | Marriage and Family Therapists | Psychiatrists | Nurse Practitioners | Occupational Therapists | Executive/Life Coaches | Naturopaths | Acupuncturists | Birth Workers
Friday/Saturday/Sunday
Time: 10am to 7pm Eastern Standard Time daily
Cost: includes training materials
Early Bird Discount $745
Standard rate: $795
Late rate: $845
Brainspotting Phase 1 and 2 Trainings for Mental Health and Healthcare Professionals are approved by Brainspotting Trainings, LLC and meet the requirements and standards to become a certified Brainspotting practitioner.
Requirements and Expectations:
- If you are unable to adhere to these requirements please do not register for the training.
- 100% attendance is required for each day. This means it is not acceptable to leave the training for a few hours to go attend another meeting etc. and then return to the training. Brainspotting training is experiential, neuro-experiential, didactical, and community oriented.
- I realize we are emerging from a pandemic and sociopolitical issues which have caused strain in many areas to say the least. This training is highly experiential and REQUIRES your full attention and presence. The inability to be fully present adversely impacts other attendees during experiential practicums.
- If you become ill during the training, we are aware life happens. Extenuating circumstances arrive and will be addressed individually. All aspects of the training must be completed with full participation to receive attendance/completion certificate.
- By registering for this training you agree to the requirements and expectations.
SPECIAL REQUESTS & NOTIFICATIONS:
Do Not Complete the registration form instead:
Email: tracybrainspottingtraining@gmail.com in the following situations:
- To request a payment plan (options available on the registration form):
In your request chose either option A or option B (invoice will be emailed for remaining balance to be paid by the due date/before training)
Option A - 2 payments of $372.50 (on registration form)
Option B - 3 payments of $248.33 (on registration form)
- Students enrolled in a mental health degree program: $400
Email to request student rate and include the name of the school and program in which you are currently enrolled. (Student rate limited to master's level programs on registration form)
- Limited reduced rates are available to those with a true and demonstrable financial hardship.
Email: tracybrainspottingtraining@gmail.com
This Online Brainspotting Phase 1 & Phase 2 training is for Mental Health and Healthcare Professionals. This training is approved by Brainspotting Trainings, LLC and meets the Brainspotting Phase 1 requirement towards Brainspotting certification.
Seminar Overview
Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of challenging symptoms. Brainspotting is a simultaneous form of diagnosis and treatment, enhanced with BioLateral sound, which is deep, direct, powerful yet focused and containing.
Brainspotting identifies activated eye positions designated as Brainspots. Located through either one or both eyes, Brainspots are observed from either the "Inside Window" of the client's felt sense and/or the "Outside Window" of the client's reflexive responses (i.e., blink, eye twitches or wobbles, pupil dilation, quick breaths, and subtle body shifts).
Students will first learn the phenomenological approach that underpins strategies for Brainspotting, followed by strategies for identifying and processing Brainspots. Attention will be given to the utilization and integration of Brainspotting into ongoing treatment, including highly dissociative clients.
Brainspotting is adaptable to almost all areas of specialization. Brainspotting provides therapists with powerful tools which enable their patients to quickly and effectively focus and process through the deep brain sources of many emotional, somatic and performance problems.
Seminar Objectives
Phase 1
Through lecture, live demonstration and small group practice participants will learn to do the following:
Define the components of Brainspotting.
Utilize the techniques of "Inside window", "Outside window" and "Gazespotting".
Define how Brainspotting can be applied to Trauma, Dissociation, Sports psychology, Somatic conditions.
Demonstrate the theories and practices of Brainspotting.
Phase 2
- Review Phase 1 concepts: Revisit the Outside Window, Inside Window, and Gazespotting techniques.
- Utilize the Dual Attunement Frame: Strengthen client-therapist presence and relational attunement during processing.
- Master One-Eye Brainspotting: Use specialized one-eye goggles to focus and intensify the processing of deep trauma.
- Apply 3-Dimensional (Z-Axis) & Vergence Therapy: Utilize near and far positions along the Z-axis, applying convergence therapy to activate the vagus nerve via the oculocardiac reflex.
- Demonstrate Rolling Brainspotting: Employ slow, smooth eye tracking that pauses briefly on successive brainspots to uncover deep emotional responses.
- Combine Inside-Outside Window Techniques: Integrate reflexive physiological responses and the client's self-reported highest activation to locate precise brainspots.
- Apply the Advanced Resource Model: Deepen resourcing protocols to safely contain and stabilize clients presenting with complex PTSD or dissociative identity disorders.
A word about CEs
This Brainspotting trainings are approved by Brainspotting Trainings, LLC and David Grand, PhD Founder and Developer of Brainspotting. This training meets the Phase 1 or Phase 2 requirements toward becoming a certified Brainspotting Practitioner.
Grace Community Counseling & Social Services, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No.
7637. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.
Grace Community Counseling & Social Services, LLC is solely responsible for
all aspects of the programs. BIPOC/Persons of Color only trainings do not qualify for CEs. Participants at BIPOC trainings receive a certificate of completion for 21 hours).
Cancellation and Refund Policy:
We understand situations arise. If you need to cancel please contact us at tracybrainspottingtraining@gmail.com. Please be sure that you are able to attend all 3 days of the training. The cancelation policy is listed on each registration form.
NO REFUNDS WILL BE ISSUED AS A RESULT OF PARTIAL ATTENDANCE. PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO ATTEND ALL 3 DAYS OF THE TRAINING.
Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC
Trainer