Ben Has Used Brainspotting With The Following Athlete Populations:

NFL

• IMSA

• WEC

• MLB

• PGA

• ACC

• SEC

• NASCAR

• WRC

• NFL • IMSA • WEC • MLB • PGA • ACC • SEC • NASCAR • WRC •

Traditional sport psychology is rooted in approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI) and positive self-talk. But new advancements in sport psychology are making these approaches obsolete. One of these advancements is Brainspotting. Brainspotting is a powerful, focused mental training intervention that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of other challenging symptoms. In Ben’s practice, he specializes using Brainspotting to help athletes with the following issues:

HOW DOES BRAINSPOTTING WORK FOR ATHLETES?

Brainspotting utilizes the athlete’s field of vision to identify unresolved psychological issues such as the Yips or mental blocks. Through this process athletes have the ability to access the parts of their brain that traditional mental skills approaches can’t. Because almost half of the brain is dedicated to vision, the combined use of eye movement with focused mindfulness helps engage the regions of the brain that are responsible for regulation and bypasses the regions that are not! This results in athletes being able to directly address the true ‘underlying’ issue, which we refer to as a Brain spot.

FAQs

Sports are designed to induce stress upon athletes. As a result, these repeated events significantly increase the chances for the body to store stress long-term. This stored stress slows down response times, creates frequent & unwanted muscle tension, and prevents an athlete’s brain from being able to fully focus. All of these symptoms put the athlete at increased risk for injury, poor mental performance outcomes, and worst of all negative mental health consequences. While not a ‘miracle-cure’ Brainspotting has the potential to help ALL athletes eliminate the previously mentioned issues.
The process of Brainspotting can be uncomfortable as can be the case with all psychotherapy. However, Brainspotting is meant to help clients resolve deeply disturbing or traumatic issues much faster than traditional therapy approaches. These outcomes can provide both physical & mental relief.
You will start to feel better! While Brainspotting may not work for all athletes, Ben will help you track progress and identify how the sessions are improving your symptoms over time. Overall, athletes have reported significant decreases or complete removal of anxiety, PTSD responses, and mental blocks.
Brainspotting is not considered to be evidence-based practice due to how new the intervention is coupled with the fact that there is overall poor funding when it comes to research in mental health. With that being said, Brainspotting evolved from a psychotherapy technique called EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) which has shown to have strong research support.
Brainspotting has the potential to be effective for everyone! Ben specializes in using Brainspotting with athletes & veterans. Ben does not specialize in using Brainspotting to help clients with substance use issues or eating disorders.
When working with Ben, the initial evaluation costs $400. After the evaluation, Ben charges $200 per hour when working with clients.
Ben does not take insurance & Ben does not provide a superbill. Ben will provide a receipt for service but there will be no diagnostic codes. There is also no sliding scale fee either. Payment is required within 24 hours of service and clients may pay with either cash, check or credit card.