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A therapist sits across from a client in a bright, sunlit therapy office, holding one finger upright as a visual focus point while the client looks calmly toward it. Headphones rest nearby on the table, suggesting a Brainspotting session setup in which focused eye position and steady attention are used to support deeper processing.

Free Brainspotting Course

Explore this free Brainspotting course from IFS Academy, written in plain language for everyday people. Learn what Brainspotting is, how fixed eye position connects to the nervous system, and how the course covers setup, locating techniques, the Resource Model, therapist stance, specialty applications, and daily practice.

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A woman sits alone on the floor in a bright, sunlit room with one hand resting on her chest, practicing quiet self-awareness beside a low wooden table with a journal, pen, headphones, mug, and grounding stone. The image represents bringing Brainspotting principles into daily life through simple self-spotting, body awareness, and reflective practice outside the therapy office.

Module 11 — Bringing It Into Your Own Life: Self-Spotting and Daily Practice

This free Brainspotting lesson introduces self-spotting and daily practice. Learn how self-resource spotting, natural gaze practice, biolateral music, and gentle body awareness can support grounding and regulation while understanding when deeper trauma work belongs with a trained Brainspotting practitioner.

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A client sits peacefully in a bright therapy office with one hand resting on her chest while the therapist observes and writes nearby. The warm daylight, calm posture, and grounded atmosphere represent what Brainspotting reveals about healing: that the body can process, integrate, and settle in ways that words alone may not reach.

Module 10 — What Brainspotting Reveals About Healing

This free Brainspotting lesson explores what the modality reveals about healing itself. Learn why insight is not always the active ingredient, how the body already knows where material is held, why slowness and silence matter, and how the therapist creates conditions for the brain’s own healing capacity to unfold.

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