High Acuity Brainspotting Training – Online – October 10-12th 2025

Then you are in the right place.  The High Acuity Brainspotting training is an online – 3 day training, geared for outpatient, residential, intensive outpatient, and inpatient clinicians seeking an expanded toolbox to work with clients that are outside the normal window of tolerance for brainspotting.

Here is what others that have attended this training have said:

Ashley Buckner, LMFT, Certified Brainspotting Therapist

I really appreciated the High Acuity Brainspotting training.  I found it very helpful with my clients  who were struggling with high activation.  This training gave me the tools needed to guide them through the process of brainspotting at a deeper level at a slower pace.  I have benefitted myself from the work I did at the training. I have found my clients receptive to this method and appreciate them allowing me to be present with them through their process.  Jeff and Steve are always awesome trainers and I always learn a lot at their trainings!

Heidi A. Evers, MS, LPC-MH, QMHP

David Grand sets the foundations for this training when he shares in Phase 1 and 2 trainings that the core focus of working with higher acuity individuals is deeply connected to the relationship with the brainspotting practitioner.  In addition to highlighting the core element of the relationship, he spells out these areas to focus on in the treatment of individuals with high complexity:

• Individuals in a state of 24 hour flashback

• Little or no capacity for sleep

• Parts trapped in a flashback state

• Little of no capacity to trust

• Tendency to self-harm or suicidality

• High levels of self-hatred, self-attack and sense of utter worthlessness

• Struggling with body distortions

• Tend to communicate in meta-communications from the most wounded parts

Steve Sawyer LCSW, CSAC and Jeff Ryan LPC,CSAC, both brainspotting trainers who have spent their careers working with high acuity individuals built upon these ideas to create a training that:

• Explores and demonstrates specialized attunement skills

• Explains assessment skills and tools for differentiating core dynamics especially interoceptive dimensions

• Define and demonstrate a model for using brainspotting to prepare and stabilize individuals outside the window of tolerance

What is high acuity and which client populations are relative to this training?

The Brainspotting High Acuity Care Initiative (BSPHAC) was created to empower practitioners and agencies to better use Brainspotting with the individuals that need it the most – those struggling with higher acuities but what is high acuity?  High Acuity is not just a higher level of care but speaks more to individuals struggling with higher and persistent states of activation, more dangerous and complex behaviors, classic individuals with complex struggles such as addiction, complex and developmental trauma, neurodivergency, dissociation and other individuals that are struggling to experience the benefits of brainspotting.

Training specifics:

Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm (CST), 8:00am – 4:00pm (MST), 7:00am – 3:00pm (PST), 10:00am – 6:00pm (EST)

Location:  Online via Zoom

Continuing Education:

If you would like to purchase continuing education for the training then please click here to pay an additional $35 fee for NAADAC certified CEs. This training offers 21 CEs for the training that are provided through NAADAC as the authorizing provider.  Does not require the individual to be an addiction oriented provider receive CEs through NAADAC.

CE’s authorized by CE Learning Systems which is approved by these national organizations, and by many state licensing boards nationwide.

Brainspotting Trainers Info:

Jeff Ryan LPC,CSAC  is a Brainspotting (BSP) consultant and trainer from Wisconsin. He is the owner of Advanced Counseling and Consulting Services in Neenah, WI where he provides direct clinical services and consultation. Along with doing Phase 1 and 2 BSP trainings, he has created an advanced BSP training for working with addictions and the Resource Model of Brainspotting.