Discover a transformative 3-day online training designed for Brainspotting practitioners who are ready to expand their Brainspotting skills and confidently support clients with complex, high-acuity presentations. This immersive experience blends advanced theory with deeply attuned, experiential learning, helping participants unlock new levels of precision, presence, and therapeutic effectiveness. Whether you’re working with trauma, dissociation, addictions, intense emotional dysregulation, or layered clinical histories, this training offers a safe, supportive space to strengthen your clinical intuition and grow your capacity to track, hold, and guide the most challenging client processes.

Across three powerful days, you’ll learn innovative tools, nuanced interventions, and attuned relational pathways that bring depth, clarity, and momentum to high-acuity Brainspotting work. Through live demonstrations, practicums, and small group discussions, you’ll feel both inspired and empowered as you experience how these skills can transform therapeutic outcomes. Some of the innovative Brainspotting techniques that you will learn are:

> Window of Tolerance assessment process

> Body awareness (interoception) assessment

> Accessing and developing greater awareness of activation

> Assessing and developing regulation

> Assessing relational dysregulation 

> Island building technique for deeper resourcing and regulation

> 4 Low and Moderate dose – BSP Frame Set Ups

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:

1. Individuals in a state of 24 hour flashback

2. Little or no capacity for sleep

3. Parts trapped in a flashback state

4. Little of no capacity to trust

5. Tendency to self-harm or suicidality

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

7. Struggling with body distortions

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

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

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

Continuing Education:

NAADAC Approved Education Providers offer training and education for those who are seeking to become certified/licensed, for those who want to maintain their certification/license at the state or national level, for those who want to add to their education, and for those from other disciplines who want to learn more about substance use and co-occurring disorders.

Individuals participating in educational programs offered by NAADAC Approved Education Providers are assured that the continuing education (CE) hours provided for each course will be accepted toward national credentialing by the National Certification Commission for Addiction Professionals (NCC AP), as well as many of the individual state licensing/certification bodies in the addiction and other helping professions.

The NAADAC Approved Education Provider logo signifies that an organization has voluntarily opened its educational programs to examination by the National Certification Commission for Addiction Professionals (NCC AP) for content applicability to state, national, and international certification standards. This rigorous review process ensures that learners receive a consistent, reliable, and quality learning experience that is applicable to their careers and advances their understanding of addiction and co-occurring disorders-related issues.

Steve Sawyer and his organization Dynamic Interventions is a NAADAC approved education provider. (Provider #264576)  Continuing education provided for this training are through his organization as a co-trainer for this training.

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.