If you’ve ever felt like talk therapy or traditional healing methods only scratch the surface, you’re not alone. Many people are searching for a deeper, more embodied path to trauma resolution—one that honors the body’s wisdom, not just the mind’s stories.
Trauma Spotting is a somatic healing method I developed to help individuals locate, witness, and release unresolved trauma stored in the body. Unlike other modalities, it’s gentle, intuitive, and rooted in the belief that the body *knows* where the pain lives—and it also knows how to let it go.
Trauma Spotting vs. Brainspotting: What’s the Difference?
You may have heard of Brainspotting, a powerful therapy technique developed by Dr. David Grand that uses eye positioning to access and process trauma. While trauma spotting may seem similar, it’s actually quite different in intention and approach.
- Brainspotting is therapist, led and often integrates with EMDR and other trauma modalities.
- Trauma Spotting is somatically led, intuitive, and rooted in the client’s own body awareness and innate healing intelligence.
- In trauma spotting, we don't rely on eye movement or positioning—we use body, based signals to find where trauma is stored and how it wants to release.
This makes trauma spotting especially powerful for:
- People who feel disconnected from their bodies
- Survivors of developmental or complex trauma
- Those who have “tried everything” and still feel stuck
How Does Trauma Spotting Work?
During a trauma spotting session, I guide clients through a process of:
1. Settling the nervous system to create a safe internal space
2. Tracking body sensations to notice where tension, numbness, or discomfort arise
3. Spotting the trauma—a felt, sense location in the body where the trauma is being stored
4. Witnessing and release—sometimes through tears, movement, imagery, or deep stillness
Rather than forcing a release, the body shows us what it’s ready to process. It's a co, creative process between your conscious awareness and your body's deeper intelligence.
Why Is This Important?
Trauma isn’t just “in your head.”
It’s *in your body.* In your cells. Your fascia. Your energy field. It affects how you think, how you react, and how safe or unsafe you feel in the world.
By learning how to spot trauma in the body and give it the space to be seen and safely released, you create more room for:
- Calm
- Clarity
- Emotional freedom
- Authentic expression
Ready to Experience It for Yourself?
If you’re curious about trauma spotting, I invite you to:
- Watch a trauma spotting session on my YouTube channel www.YouTube.com/VIBEMentor
- Book a session with me [Insert booking link]
- Follow me on social media for daily content and somatic tips, see bleow for the links.
And if you’re a practitioner looking to learn this method, stay tuned—training is coming soon.
Trauma Spotting is a homecoming.
It’s about returning to your body, your truth, your power.
And once you spot the trauma—gently, lovingly—it no longer needs to run the show.