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Augustin Kendall

Existential Meaning: Creating Your Story

Existential Meaning: Creating Your Story

Meaning is at the heart of existential therapy: being born into the world without predetermined meaning, and creating (or failing to create) personal meaning as we go through life.  A maxim of existential philosophy is “existence precedes essence,” from Jean-Paul...
What to Expect in a Brainspotting Therapy Session

What to Expect in a Brainspotting Therapy Session

A Brainspotting therapy session starts with identifying the issue you want to work on. It may be a long-ago memory or a recent experience, an emotion, a thought, an image, a physical sensation, or something else. You don’t need to focus on a distressing memory; any...
What Is Existential Therapy?

What Is Existential Therapy?

I became an existentialist in high school. I didn’t know that’s what I was doing, just that I was caught up in what the point of being alive was. That question and similar ones (“Why are humans the way we are?” “Am I real?”) drove me for the next 20 years. Then, when...
How Does Brainspotting work?

How Does Brainspotting work?

The neuroscientific foundation of Brainspotting is based on functions in areas of the brain below the prefrontal cortex, partly in the limbic system. This part of the brain is crucial in processing emotions, including ones related to difficult experiences and traumas....
What Is Brainspotting Therapy?

What Is Brainspotting Therapy?

Brainspotting is a somatic (body-based) therapy based on concepts from neuroscience, mindfulness, and other body-based therapies. Brainspotting therapy uses eye position and bilateral stimulation to access and release memories, feelings, and sensations that are stuck...