High Acuity Brainspotting 2.0

High Acuity Brainspotting 2.0 is an immersive and inspiring training designed for practitioners ready to expand their confidence and mastery in working with clients who present with complex trauma, high-intensity emotions, and deeply embedded survival patterns. This advanced experience offers innovative strategies and deeper practicums that bring Brainspotting into sharper focus—helping you access, contain, and transform the most challenging client presentations with greater precision and compassion. Through guided demonstrations, multiple longer practicums with HAC BSP frame set ups, and case integration, participants will strengthen their capacity to stay grounded, attuned, and effective even in the most demanding clinical moments.

This training invites you into a space of renewal, growth, and connection—both personally and professionally. As you explore the advanced layers of high acuity Brainspotting, you’ll develop an enriched toolkit that supports deeper healing for your clients and greater ease for yourself as a practitioner. Whether you’re seeking to elevate your clinical impact, refresh your passion for the work, or connect with a community of skilled, heart-centered professionals, High Acuity Brainspotting 2.0 offers a hopeful and transformative path forward.

Completion of Phase 1 Brainspotting is required to attend this training as an advanced Brainspotting training.  

Outcomes:

> Focused and supportive practicums with High Acuity BSP frame set ups introduced in High Acuity BSP 1.0 along with Demonstrations of each of the frame set ups.

> Deeper dive into working with core issues connected to higher acuity such as: Suicidality, Self Harm, Addictions

> Expanding and learning the skill of pendulation to build skills with regulation and processing

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.

Cancellation policy:
Refunds for registration will be honored up to 30 days prior to the training.  Please contact Jeff Ryan to discuss any refunds or challenges with attending at jeffr.accs@gmail.com.

What previous attendees are saying:

Attending the high acuity training has been transformative for me as a Brainspotting therapist. It has helped me feel competent in using brainspotting to work with my high acuity clients in a manner that is supportive to their nervous system. I have noticed an additional shift in myself as a therapist in how I conceptualize developmental trauma, complex trauma, and other high acuity presentations. Upon completing the training, I have been able to consistently integrate the tools I learned into my practice. I have found these tools to be supportive not only for my high acuity clients, but all of those I work with. As someone who has attended multiple Brainspotting trainings, this one took my work to the next level. It has allowed me to better attune to clients and has given me an increased awareness & skill set to navigate my own limbic countertransference.

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