Brainspotting certification gives you, as a mental health professional, an opportunity to collaborate with some of the most forward-thinking and creative therapists working in mental health today.
Brainspotting is a fluid, highly attuned mental health therapy model that allows a therapist to provide targeted guidance to clients. This level of focus in therapy brings rapid trauma relief, jumpstarts creativity, and brings support for performance enhancement in any field.
Benefits of Brainspotting Certification
The Brainspotting certification process moves you through a collaborative learning process, allows continuing education units, intrinsically includes valuable networking opportunities, and, in the end, provides you with the confidence to use Brainspotting to bring breakthroughs to your most complex and challenging cases.
We have included all the forms required for Brainspotting certification as downloads on this page.
To begin your Brainspotting certification adventure, contact Christine Ranck today.
Initial Certification Requirements
You must complete the following three trainings. You may complete Phase 1 & 2 trainings with any certified Brainspotting Trainer.
Advanced trainings are completed with Dr. David Grand, discoverer of Brainspotting.
Brainspotting Phase 1 training
Brainspotting Phase 2 training
One advanced training (Master Class, Phase 3, Phase 4 or Phase 5)
Document 50 Brainspotting sessions representing the frame set-ups from Phases 1 & 2.
Generally, these sessions are in the context of clinical or professional work.
If you want to use any sessions outside of clinical settings discuss this with your consultant first.
Download the session tracking form.
Select a consultant and complete all six hours with a single consultant.
Just 2 of those hours can be completed between Phase 1 & Phase 2 trainings.
OR
Complete a 5-day Intensive training with any Certified Brainspotting Trainer.
Your consultant will complete a Consultant Reporting Form documenting the sessions.
Be sure you have completed all 3 trainings, 50 hours of Brainspotting sessions, and 6 hours of consultation with a single consultant.
Once you have done that, complete the Application Form and pay the application fee. Submit both to Brainspotting Trainings, LLC.
You may complete the certification application and payment online at Brainspotting.com.
You must complete all steps within 2 years to be certified as a Brainspotter.
Please review this Code of Ethics and Professional Standards of Conduct. You will be expected to abide by this code.
Complete Recertification Every Two Years
Document, in-depth, one of each of the nine Phase 1 and Phase 2 frame set-ups including the following:
- Date and Anonymous Brainspotting Recipient Identifier
- Presenting issue
- Frame Set-up used
- Briefly describe what motivated you to choose this frame set-up
- Briefly describe the recipient’s process
- Briefly describe your experience of the process (Consider reflecting on attunement, staying in the tail of the comet, limbic countertransference.)
Please use the Renewal Documentation form.
Complete 1 hour of consultation* with an Approved Brainspotting Consultant.
Use the prompts below to prepare for your consultation. No written documentation is required for the consultation meeting; instead, be ready to discuss the following prompts in detail.
Prompts:
- Review the Brainspotting Consultant’s Report and clearly identify at least 3 principles or practices that you feel are a strength and at least 3 principles or practices where you need support.
- Provide an in-depth description of your experience of providing Brainspotting for an individual/couple or family, including how you’ve understood their process, how you have used Brainspotting with them, the ways Brainspotting has helped them, and how this experience has influenced your own practice.
- Describe how your own Brainspotting has continued to support you.
*The consultation requirement for Recertification may also be met via Brainspotting Intensive. Please talk with the Brainspotting Trainer about their specific process.
Complete the renewal application, payment, and provide your 9 documented Brainspotting Sessions, and a copy of liability insurance (or request a waiver of liability insurance) to Brainspotting Trainings, LLC.
Your consultant will provide you with their completed Consultant Report to be turned in with your application.