Dr. David Grand’s Bio:

David Grand, PhD is the developer of Brainspotting, the groundbreaking relational brain-body, mindfulness-based method. He is the author of Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change and the co-author of This is Your Brain on Sports. Dr. Grand is involved in humanitarian activities with survivors of 9/11, Katrina and Sandy Hook/Newtown. He has accomplished breakthroughs in performance and creativity with Brainspotting Sports Work and Brainspotting Acting Coaching. Dr. Grand is the playwright of his 9/11 play I Witness and the filmmaker of the documentary Come Hell or High Water. Dr. Grand has been widely featured in the media including The NY Times, NBC National News, The Discovery Channel, CNN, MSNBC, Sports Illustrated and Sirius Radio.

2. According to Dr. David Grand, why Brainspotting works to improve mental health 

With Brainspotting, where you look affects how you feel. Eye positions and reflexes give us cues as to where the deep (subcortical) brain is holding our emotional issues (unprocessed trauma). Brainspotting is a state of the art psychotherapy that attunes to the eyes (much of which is made up of brain cells) to promote the self-healing that we are innately wired for.