***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 fully licensed professionals or those who do not require a license to practice may register with this option. Phase 1 is a prerequisite for this course.
If you are currently practicing under supervision (not able to practice independently)/have a provisional mental health license, you may register with the provisional license option. We will require verification of provisional status. Phase 1 training is a prerequisite for this course.
If you are a current pre-licensed student actively enrolled in a Master’s or Doctoral program or are retaking the course, please register using this option. We will require verification of student status, or the date of the training/trainer name for Phase 1 if you are retaking the course. Phase 1 training is a prerequisite for this course.
Training will be held from 9am-6 pm all three days in the Central Standard Time (CST) Zone. The training is available to all who can attend live.
REGISTRATION/PRICING:
-Early Bird ($745)-ends January 23rd, 2025
-Standard ($795)-January 24th-February 20th, 2025
-Late ($845)- February 21st-March 6th, 2025
*Late registrants may not receive all materials in time, however, easy alternatives can be used for practicums
All pricing in USD.
If you need a payment plan, please contact us to make arrangements.
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 3 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 the trainer know if you have any issues.
YOUR TRAINER:
Mariya Javed-Payne, MSW, LICSW, LADC
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.
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.
PHASE 2:
In this 3-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.
Brainspotting Phase 2 introduces students to five additional Brainspotting techniques to broaden the skills of the attendees in treating their more severely traumatized clients. Two techniques are taught for clients who have adaptively dissociated as a result of severe trauma. These “frames” are called “Rolling Brainspotting” and “Inside/ Outside Window” Brainspotting. This allows relevant eye positions to be found for the client outside of their awareness. The clinicians learn to identify reflexes in the body, eyes, and face that are signals from the client’s brain that an area of significance has been found in the visual field. This is groundbreaking for clients who have not been able to heal because of their dissociation or “freeze” response. The next three techniques are aimed at quickly adding layers of additional resourcing for clients who feel overwhelmed in session or find themselves shutting down. These techniques are called, “One Eye Brainspotting”, “Z Axis Brainspotting” with “Vergence Brainspotting” (More rapid Z Axis), and the “Advanced Resource Model of Brainspotting.” Attendees will review key principles and theories from Phase One in addition to learning important tools and techniques in working with Dissociation and the more severely traumatized needing higher levels of resourcing. These five new methods of Brainspotting allow the clinicians to find specific, resourced eye positions to keep their clients within their window of tolerance. The more advanced techniques will engender confidence in the attendees ability to handle more fragile and dissociative clients.
AUDIENCE:
Psychologists, social workers, counselors, coaches, healing professionals with strong clinical backgrounds, current students, and interns
POST TRAINING CONSULTATION GROUPS:
To support integration of the material, two optional consultation groups will be offered after the training on the following dates:
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
10-11am CDT
Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
2-3pm CDT
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
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 oculocardiac reflex and its relationship to the vagus nerve of the parasympathetic nervous system.
Demonstrate a basic mastery of the use of the rolling Brainspotting technique.
Demonstrate a basic mastery of the combined inside-outside Brainspotting technique.
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 z-axis technique
Demonstrate a basic mastery of vergence therapy techniques.
Explain the role of proximity and how the brain signals safety and threat to the body
Describe how z axis and vergence techniques may impact trauma processing for clients with C-PTSD and other chronic conditions
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 eyes open, eyes closed technique in Brainspotting.
Describe the role of attunement and its importance in the resource model in supporting clients with C-PTSD and DID.
Describe homeostasis and the essential resource (survival instinct) and its connection to trauma processing with Brainspotting.
Assess how specific advanced Brainspotting techniques can be used for complex PTSD and other trauma related conditions.
CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION:
Complimentary certificates of completion for 21 clock hours are sent out after the course for those who complete the entire training. However, we now also offer CEs through ASWB-ACE, NBCC, and NYS (New York State). CEs are a separate $40 purchase and must be purchased by the end of class. CEs are not available after the class ends.
You can buy CEs here: (link will be updated soon). If you intend to get CEs, please also email us and let us know (you can contact us here) so that we can ensure you are on the final CE roster given to our CE host.
You will need to do your research on whether you qualify to use these. Each state has their own rules, and some will accept them, others will not. Full attendance is required, as well as the completion of an evaluation after the course. The evaluation will ask if you felt you learned the specific objectives listed above.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
We will provide you with a full refund if you cancel up to 14 days before the event (less $75 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 fully licensed professionals or those who do not require a license to practice may register with this option. Phase 1 is a prerequisite for this course.
If you are currently practicing under supervision (not able to practice independently)/have a provisional mental health license, you may register with the provisional license option. We will require verification of provisional status. Phase 1 training is a prerequisite for this course.
If you are a current pre-licensed student actively enrolled in a Master’s or Doctoral program or are retaking the course, please register using this option. We will require verification of student status, or the date of the training/trainer name for Phase 1 if you are retaking the course. Phase 1 training is a prerequisite for this course.