Where You Look Affects How You Feel

— Where you look affects how you feel — This is a good way to understand brainspotting! When using brainspotting, a person can identify internal sensations or emotions by focusing on specific spots in their visual field, a targeted mindfulness that helps them identify tension in their bodies, and connect those sensations or emotions to a specific spot in their visual field. Through brainspotting, new neural pathways are created over time, so the spot triggering these feelings no longer triggers these feelings. The brainspotting method enables the body to utilize its natural healing mechanisms by enabling it to 'self-scan' itself in order to access areas of the brain where trauma is stored. This type of process can alleviate symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and physical pain. Brainspotting can also benefit anyone with feelings that might be holding them back in their career, artists and creatives and athletes.

Valeria interviews Mariya Javed-Payne — She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor, Certified Brainspotting Trainer and Consultant, and a Minnesota Board Approved Supervisor.

She is currently the owner of Awaken Consulting Services, a private practice where she offers therapy intensives as well as trainings and consultation. She has a history of serving as Co-Owner and Chief Clinical Officer at the Institute for Integrative Therapies, a psychedelic assisted therapy clinic, as well as the Director of Behavioral Health at a federally qualified health center and has led teams of therapists, psychiatrists, and social workers to provide trauma-responsive, anti-oppressive counseling and addiction therapies for the last 6 years. She also offers therapy intensives for complex PTSD and addictions, as well as consulting services on the topics of race, addictions, and trauma at Awaken Consulting Services. Most recently, she has begun utilizing psychedelic medicines such as ketamine to help people heal from trauma and other mental health concerns. Her 13 years of experience have focused on clients with addictions, medication assisted treatment therapies, complex and developmental trauma, racial trauma, oppression, spirituality, and chronic pain.

To learn more about Mariya Javed-Payne and her work, please visit: https://www.awakenconsultingservices.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.