Brainspotting Therapy for BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ Adults

Online Somatic Informed Trauma Therapy Across California

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You are in the right place.

You can explain what happened. You understand your patterns. You’ve done the insight work.

You understand your attachment patterns.
You’ve named the trauma.
Maybe you’ve even had years of talk therapy.

And yet:

Your chest tightens without warning.
You sleep lightly, as if your body is still scanning.
Old memories feel immediate.
Your nervous system reacts before your thinking brain can intervene.

For many BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ adults, trauma is not a single event. It is cumulative.

Racial stress. Minority stress. Attachment ruptures. Religious rejection. Chronic vigilance in environments that required you to stay alert in order to fit in or survive.

Insight alone does not heal these survival responses.

When trauma is stored in deep brain regions responsible for protection, your body can continue responding long after the threat has passed.

Nothing is wrong with you.

Your nervous system adapted exactly as it needed to help you survive.

You’ve Done the Work. So Why Does Your Body Still React?

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Brainspotting: Trauma Therapy That Works Where Survival Lives

Brainspotting is a neurobiologically informed, brain & body trauma therapy that accesses subcortical regions of the brain where emotional memory, attachment injury, and survival patterns are held.

Rather than working only through language, we work at the feeling level of the nervous system.

Using precise eye positioning and focused attunement, Brainspotting allows the brain to process trauma that remains unresolved, including:

  • Racial and generational trauma

  • Chronic hypervigilance shaped by systemic oppression

  • LGBTQIA+ minority stress

  • Complex trauma (CPTSD)

  • Trauma that persists despite years of insight-oriented therapy

When trauma is stored in the midbrain and limbic system, it does not respond to logic. It responds to safety.

Brainspotting facilitates the formation of new neural pathways, allowing the body to integrate what was once overwhelming.

Your alarm system learns peace.
Your present separates from your past.
Regulation becomes possible.

There is no pressure to retell or perform your pain.

We move at the pace of your nervous system.
We track activation with care.
Healing unfolds as we honor your safety.

If you would like to learn more how Brainspotting may support your healing, please reach out to Kyrie Sedano, LMFT for a free virtual consultation.

Culturally Responsive Brainspotting for BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ Adults in California

Many trauma models were not built with racialized stress or identity-based harm in mind.

For BIPOC adults, trauma often lives as:

  • Intergenerational trauma, like survival conditioning

  • Microaggressions and chronic vigilance

  • Cultural invalidation

  • The nervous system burden of systemic inequity

For LGBTQIA+ adults, trauma may live as:

  • Attachment injuries shaped by rejection

  • Religious or familial rupture

  • Minority stress and hyper-awareness

  • A body conditioned to anticipate threat

These are not abstract concepts. These are stored nervous system experiences.

Online Brainspotting therapy in California with Kyrie Sedano, LMFT offers identity-affirming, anti-oppressive trauma care that understands how power, priviledge, and safety shape the body and impact the nervous system.

In our work together:

You do not have to educate me.
Your lived experience is not debated.
Your identity is not pathologized.

Sessions are spacious, compassionate, and deeply attuned.

Less explanation.
More integration.
More regulation.

Some folx experience meaningful shifts in a short period of time. Others choose extended trauma work depending on complexity and depth.

You are not a diagnosis.
You are not a problem to fix.
You have a nervous system that learned how to survive and needs help to learn how to thrive.

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Online Brainspotting Therapy in California Can Help With:

  • Anxiety disorders

  • Complex trauma (CPTSD)

  • Attachment trauma

  • Intergenerational trauma

  • Racial trauma

  • LGBTQIA+ identity-based stress

  • Emotional overwhelm

  • Chronic hypervigilance

  • Dissociation or shutdown

  • Feeling stuck despite years of therapy

BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ adults can access effective, online brainspotting therapy at Embracing Healing Therapy Services

I Am Specialized In Working With:

  • BIPOC adults

  • LGBTQIA+ adults

  • Highly sensitive adults

  • Neurodivergent adults

  • Adults seeking somatic trauma therapy instead of directive, advice-based therapy

    If you are searching for Brainspotting therapy in California that honors both your nervous system and your lived experience, please reach out to schedule your complementary 15 minute consultation with Kyrie Sedano, LMFT.

You Don’t Have to Stay in Survival Mode

Trauma therapy does not have to feel clinical. Or performative. Or harsh.

It can feel empowering, intuitive, and unconditionally compassionate.

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FAQs

  • Traditional talk therapy primarily engages the cognitive brain through insight and language. Brainspotting works at the level of the nervous system. It accesses subcortical brain regions where trauma is stored, helping regulate survival responses rather than only analyzing them. This approach can be especially effective for complex trauma and chronic stress.

    Brainspotting does not require you to retell every detail of your trauma. The process focuses on tracking nervous system activation and allowing the brain to integrate unresolved experiences. Many people find this approach less overwhelming than traditional trauma therapy.

    You may read more research on Brainspotting here.

  • Yes. Brainspotting can be highly effective for racial trauma because it works with how trauma is stored in the body. Chronic racial stress, microaggressions, and systemic oppression often create ongoing nervous system activation. Brainspotting helps process these cumulative experiences without requiring clients to repeatedly relive or explain them.

    Kyrie Sedano, LMFT highly recommends watching this video if you would like to learn more.

  • Brainspotting supports LGBTQIA+ adults who experience minority stress, identity-based harm, or attachment wounds shaped by rejection. By working at the nervous system level, it helps reduce hypervigilance and survival responses while honoring identity without pathologizing it.

  • Yes. Online Brainspotting therapy can be highly effective when conducted in a safe, focused environment. With proper attunement and pacing, virtual sessions allow clients across California to access specialized trauma therapy without compromising depth or quality.

    You may read more about how Kyrie Sedano, LMFT provides effective online therapy here.