***This training is approved by Brainspotting Trainings, LLC and meets the Brainspotting Phase 2 requirement for Brainspotting certification. Both Phase 1 and 2 are required for certification and provide the full range of skills needed to work with most clients, including C-PTSD. Learn more about the certification process here.
Registration Options
For post graduate level therapists, social workers, and counselors; MDs; psychiatrists; Master’s level or higher psychiatric nurses, located or working in India or Pakistan. Training is hosted over two weekends.
Phase 1 completion is required.
For psychology, social work, therapy/counseling, psychiatry post-graduates who have received their post-graduate degree on or after 2022. Those who are completing their post graduation in 2024 are also eligible. Must be located or working in India or Pakistan. Training is hosted over two weekends.
Phase 1 completion is required.
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PREREQUISITE: This Brainspotting training is for Indian mental health professionals practicing in India and Pakistan who have completed Phase 1 training.
*Verification of Phase 1 completion, degree, location, graduation status, and place of employment will be required during online registration.
AUDIENCE: Psychologists, social workers, counselors with post-graduate degrees; MDs, psychiatrists, and psychiatric nurses with Master’s level degree or above; students in a psychology, social work, counseling, or psychiatry program, who will be completing their post-graduate degree by 2025
PRICING:
Early Bird: 18,000 INR=$214.59 USD, last day to register for early bird is April 3, 2025.Standard: 20,000 INR=$238.43 USD, begins April 4, 2025
Recent Graduate (2023 or after)/Student Pricing: 10,030 INR=$119.57 USD
**Please note that there may be slight variations to pricing due to the currency exchange rate changing.Last Day to Register for Training: May 9th, 2025
DATES:Training will be held over two weekends (Saturdays and Sundays) in the Indian Standard Time Zone.
May 17th and 18th (Saturday and Sunday, from 8:30am-2 pm)
May 24th and 25th (Saturday and Sunday, from 8:30am-2 pm)The training is available to psychologists, counselors, and social workers with completed graduate degrees located or working in India or Pakistan.
HELPFUL INFORMATION TO MAXIMIZE YOUR EXPERIENCE:
- The training will be held in English with Zoom closed captioning enabled.
- Please log in using a desktop or laptop computer whenever possible. Tablets and phones do not provide the best Zoom training experience.
- Please ensure you are in a private space for the duration of the training, especially for experiential components.
- Plan to attend all 4 days of the training and avoid scheduling other activities during the training times.
We will be taking attendance and only those present for the ENTIRE training will receive a Phase 2 certificate of completion. Let us know if you have any issues. -
PHASE 2:
In this 4-day intermediate training, participants will:
-be given a review of the four basic Brainspotting techniques learned in the Brainspotting Phase 1 training. -Acquire basic mastery of five more advanced Brainspotting techniques.
This live Zoom training will be facilitated with didactic lecture, PowerPoint, handouts, role playing, dyad practice, and live demonstrations. Live attendance with camera access, sound, and a private space is required.***This training is approved by Brainspotting Trainings, LLC and meets the Brainspotting Phase 2 requirement for Brainspotting certification. Learn more about the certification process here.
ABOUT BRAINSPOTTING
Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of challenging symptoms. Brainspotting is a simultaneous form of diagnosis and treatment, enhanced with BioLateral sound, which is deep, direct, powerful yet focused and containing. Trainings are 9 am to 6 pm CDT each day and count for 21 clock hours that may count towards continuing education credits, depending on your state board licensing requirements.Brainspotting identifies activated eye positions designated as Brainspots. Located through either one or both eyes, Brainspots are observed from either the “Inside Window” of the clients felt sense and/or the “Outside Window” of the clients’ reflexive responses (i.e., blink, eye twitches or wobbles, pupil dilation, quick breaths and subtle body shifts). Students will first learn the phenomenological approach that underpins strategies for Brainspotting, followed by strategies for identifying and processing Brainspots. Attention will be given to the utilization and integration of Brainspotting into ongoing treatment, including highly dissociative clients.
Brainspotting is adaptable to almost all areas of specialization. Brainspotting provides therapists with powerful tools to enable their patients to quickly and effectively process through the deep brain sources of many held traumas, emotional, somatic and performance problems.
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Mariya Javed-Payne is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor and International Brainspotting Trainer and Consultant.
She is a somatic psychotherapist and the owner of Awaken Consulting Services, a private practice and consultancy where she utilizes Brainspotting therapy and offers training and consultation on the treatment of trauma, somatic psychotherapies, psychedelic assisted therapy, anti-racism, and other relevant mental health topics. She also offers therapy intensives for complex PTSD and addictions, where clients work with her for multiple hours a day for a number of days to get to the root of traumatic experiences.
Always seeking out the most cutting edge advances in treatment, she utilizes psychedelic medicines such as ketamine with somatic therapy. Her 14 years of experience have focused on clients with addictions, medication assisted treatment therapies, complex and developmental trauma, racial and ancestral trauma, oppression, and chronic pain. Identifying as a deep-hearted visionary and servant leader, she has served various leadership roles in the mental health service industry, such as Chief Clinical Officer at Institute for Integrative Therapies, the first psychedelic assisted therapy clinic in Minnesota, as well as Director of Behavioral Health at a large federally qualified health center. Mariya has courageously supported and trained many teams of physicians, therapists, psychiatrists, and social workers to embody attunement and provide trauma-responsive, anti-oppressive counseling and addiction therapies to people and communities in need of healing.
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To support integration of the material, two optional consultation groups will be offered after the training on the following dates:
Saturday, June 20th, 2025
9:00 am ISTSaturday, July 25th, 2025
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Participants of this intermediate level course participants will be able to:
Summarize the research on client-therapist attunement in in-person and online psychotherapy sessions.
Set and utilize the dual attunement frame.
Explain the way in which bilateral auditory stimulation may enhance processing during brainspotting.
Explain the role of the allocortex and the agranular isocortex in brainspotting.
Describe the oculocardio reflex and its relationship to the vagus nerve of the parasympathetic nervous system.
Demonstrate a basic mastery of the z-axis and vergence therapy techniques.
Explain how the one-eye brainspotting technique can focus and enhance processing of trauma-related experiences.
Demonstrate a basic mastery of the use of the one-eye brainspotting technique.
Demonstrate a basic mastery of the use of the rolling brainspotting technique.
Demonstrate a basic mastery of the use of the advanced outside window brainspotting technique.
Demonstrate a basic mastery of the use of the advanced resource model of brainspotting.
Demonstrate a basic mastery of the combined inside-outside brainspotting technique.
Demonstrate a basic mastery of the second level advanced resource model of brainspotting.
Assess how specific advanced brainspotting techniques can be used for complex PTSD and other trauma related conditions.
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We will provide you with a full refund if you cancel up to 14 days before the event (less $40 USD administrative fee per ticket purchased.) We do not offer partial refunds if you are unable to attend the entire training. However, we know that life situations arise, so please contact us if you have a special circumstance.
For psychology, social work, therapy/counseling, psychiatry post-graduates who have received their post-graduate degree on or after 2022. Those who are completing their post graduation in 2024 are also eligible. Must be located or working in India or Pakistan. Training is hosted over two weekends.
Phase 1 completion is required.