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.
For Athletes
Q: Why would an athlete need Brain Spotting?
A: 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
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For Artists
Q: How does
Brain Spotting help creativity?
A: 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.
For Business Owners & Entrepreneurs
Q: What does this have to do with business?
A: 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.
For Adoptive Parents
Q: How can Brainspotting support adoptive families?
A: Parenting a child with a trauma history can awaken your own unhealed pain. Brainspotting helps parents stay regulated, compassionate, and connected even in hard moments. It brings safety back to the relationship, where true healing begins
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🙌😭 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
Welcome to the Center for Brainspotting,
Therapy & Coaching.
Athletes, artists, entrepreneurs, and adoptive parents 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 athletes, it means competing from calm focus instead of pressure.
For artists, it’s creating without fear of failure.
For business owners & entrepreneurs, it’s leading with clarity instead of burnout.
For adoptive parents, it’s finding regulation and connection beneath the chaos, so peace can ripple through the family.
The work is deep but gentle. The shifts often feel quantum.
You leave not just coping, but transformed, able to perform, parent, and scale your business from a restored sense of flow and purpose.
Brain-Based Parenting
Parent coaching and Life coaching are rooted in trust and grounded in the belief that every parent has unique strengths and talents. We believe parenting is a powerful role that can be developed and strengthened through guidance, practice, and support. Our approach helps you grow into the parent your children need by focusing on building skills, deepening connections, and fostering resilience. Whether you’re seeking personal growth, stronger relationships, deep healing, or a healthier family work-life balance, we are here to walk alongside you encouraging, equipping, and empowering you every step of the way.
Maxine Khan-Golden is the founder of the Center for Brain spotting, Therapy & Coaching. A Marriage & Family TherapyAssociate & Brainspotting Practitioner, she helps athletes, artists, and adoptive parents, entrepreneurs & business owners get unstuck, so they can perform, create, and connect & transform.
Her approach integrates neuroscience, attachment theory, and faith, guiding clients toward deep emotional regulation and lasting transformation. Through her brain-based, and spirit-led work, Maxine’s mission is to release restore & transform lives.
