Brainspotting for Performance Anxiety – How to Unlock Your Full Potential
- Jun 2, 2025
- 2 min read
Whether you're stepping onto a field, a stage, or into a boardroom, performance anxiety can feel like an invisible wall between you and your best self. As we head into June—a month of growth, momentum, and new beginnings—it’s the perfect time to explore a powerful method to break through that wall: brainspotting.
What Is Brainspotting?
Developed by Dr. David Grand, brainspotting is a brain-body therapy based on a simple but powerful idea: “Where you look affects how you feel.” By focusing on specific eye positions—called “brainspots”—that correlate with emotional and physical responses, brainspotting accesses the brain’s deeper regions to process stored trauma, stress, and anxiety.
“Where you look affects how you feel.”
Unlike talk therapy, which works mainly with the conscious, thinking brain, brainspotting taps into the subcortical brain—home to emotional memory and instinctive body responses. That makes it a game-changer for performance anxiety, which often lives beneath conscious awareness.
How Brainspotting Helps with Performance Anxiety
Performance anxiety isn’t just about nerves. It’s a learned, body-based reaction—often tied to past failures, perfectionism, or fear of judgment. Brainspotting helps you:
Calm your nervous system before high-stakes situations
Reprocess old mental blocks or critical inner voices
Improve focus and flow, helping you perform at your best
Build lasting confidence by releasing stored fear and tension
From athletes to artists to professionals, many have found brainspotting to be a turning point—not just for reducing anxiety, but for unlocking their full potential.
Real-World Impact
Here’s what performance improvement with brainspotting might look like:
● A tennis player who freezes during tournaments begins to play freely and instinctively.
● A musician who shakes before auditions rediscovers joy in their craft.
● A CEO who struggles with imposter syndrome walks into boardrooms with clarity and confidence.
Why June Is the Perfect Time
June marks the midpoint of the year—a perfect time to reflect, reset, and refocus. If you’ve been stuck in cycles of fear or hesitation, now is your opportunity to step into the second half of the year with purpose and clarity.
Take the Next Step
You don’t have to live with performance anxiety. Brainspotting offers a science-backed path to lasting change—so you can show up fully in the moments that matter most.
Ready to unlock your full potential?
Let’s talk. Schedule a consultation today and start your journey toward clarity, confidence, and peak performance.
Ready to unlock your full potential? If performance anxiety has been keeping you from reaching your full potential, I’d love to help.
