Group TherapyBrainspotting Group Therapy for Self-Love and Secure Attachment
A weekly online group grounded in Brainspotting to strengthen emotional regulation and move toward more secure attachment.
Sound Familiar?This Group May Be Right for You
This group is designed for adults working through self-worth, anxiety and attachment-related patterns.
Here’s what brings people to this group:
Base your self-worth on how others treat you.
Lie awake with anxiety or feel it disrupt your day.
Put others first—and yourself last.
Lose your voice in close relationships.
Over-analyze texts, tone shifts, or delayed responses.
Fear conflict—even when something truly matters to you.
Feel responsible for other people’s moods or reactions.
Need reassurance to feel secure—and judge yourself for it.
Swing between craving closeness and pulling away.
Stay in relationships longer than you should to avoid being alone.
Question whether you deserve steady love or care.
The ModalityWhat Is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a brain-and-body-based therapy that works through the relationship between your eyes and your brain. By finding specific eye positions, it accesses areas of the brain where unprocessed emotional material is stored — deeper regions that talk therapy alone often can’t reach.
When the nervous system has been under chronic stress, the parts of the brain responsible for clarity, regulation, and choice stop communicating effectively. The system stays on alert, even when the original threat is long past. Brainspotting helps the brain and body become aware of where they’re holding tension and protection — and supports the system’s natural capacity to reorganize, rather than forcing it to change.
As that happens, many people feel more present in their body, more emotionally regulated, and more adaptable in their relationships and daily life.
The GroupHealing in Witness
Group Brainspotting is an online psychotherapy group built around Brainspotting, a brain-and-body-based therapy that supports emotional processing and integration at a pace that respects your nervous system. The work is grounded in relational presence, attunement, and embodied awareness.
This isn’t traditional group therapy. You won’t be asked to share your trauma story or process out loud. Each person does their own internal work while the group holds space. The shared energy and co-regulation create a container that individual work alone can’t replicate.
Sessions are structured and gentle, with an emphasis on pacing, choice, and safety. Sharing is always optional.
No previous Brainspotting experience is required.
What Can ShiftGroup Brainspotting Opens Your Nervous System to New Possibilities
As the nervous system learns that it doesn’t need to stay on high alert, many people notice:
Greater emotional agility
Experiencing difficult emotions without being consumed by them or shutting them down.
More awareness, more choice
You can pause before reacting and choose how to respond, rather than defaulting to old patterns. The space between feeling and reaction gets wider.
A wider window of tolerance
Greater capacity for both stress and intimacy. You feel safer in your body, more connected to yourself, and better equipped to navigate relationships.
Curious whether this group is right for you?
The Deeper WorkWhat Group Brainspotting Makes Possible
This isn’t about fixing what’s wrong with you. It’s about helping your nervous system access more choice.
Over time, this process can support the nervous system in developing new, more flexible patterns — allowing you to feel safer in your body, more connected to yourself, and better equipped to navigate relationships and life’s challenges.
Brainspotting supports nervous system awareness and flexibility, which over time can help people expand their capacity to handle stress without going into survival mode.
Over time, you find you’re not just understanding your patterns differently. You’re responding differently in real time.
“This isn’t about never getting triggered — it’s about recovering more quickly and with more awareness.”
How it worksWhat a Session Looks Like
This Brainspotting group is focused on expansion, regulation, and resourcing.
The group provides a steady weekly space for therapeutic self-care: a place to slow down, breathe together, and reconnect with yourself in the presence of others who are also prioritizing care, growth, and connection.
Here’s what brings people to this group:
Brainspotting and Attachment style education
Group safety and expectations
Gentle, seated position Mind-body connection movement exercises
Theraplay
Guided imagery informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS) to support self-awareness, compassion, and internal coherence.
Brainspotting
Grounding activity
Optional Sharing and connecting with group members
Closing Integration Exercise
“Brainspotting is not about fixing you — it’s about helping your nervous system access more choice.”
The Practical DetailsWhat to Expect
Brainspotting Group TherapyFEE$97 / 60-minute session
Available Group TimesTuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM PST
FormatOnline via secure telehealth · California residents
Group sizeLimited. Reach out to inquire about current openings
ExperienceNo previous Brainspotting experience required
Many clients combine both: Brainspotting Group Therapy weekly, plus individual sessions as needed. This is a flexible, accessible way to stay consistent with the deeper work while having individual support available when you need it. You may choose to attend the Brainspotting group by itself or include individual therapy as part of your overall treatment, depending on what feels most supportive for you.
Flexible treatment optionsGroup Therapy + Individual Sessions: A Flexible Approach
Many clients combine both: Brainspotting Group Therapy weekly, plus individual sessions as needed. This is a flexible, accessible way to stay consistent with the deeper work while having individual support available when you need it. You may choose to attend the Brainspotting group by itself or include individual therapy as part of your overall treatment, depending on what feels most supportive for you. No previous Brainspotting experience required. All group participants will receive a complimentary 45-minute individual orientation session with Esma before their first group therapy session and a digital therapeutic resourcing guide to support nervous-system regulation and integration between sessions.
Resources
No previous Brainspotting experience required. All group participants receive a complimentary 45‑minute individual orientation session with Esma and a digital therapeutic resourcing guide.
Brainspotting Group Therapy Info Sheet
An overview of the group, what to expect, and how to get started.
Your Group FacilitatorEsma Verma, LCSW
This one-of-a-kind group is led by Esma Verma, LCSW.
Hi, I’m Esma. I offer integrative, depth-oriented online therapy for adults throughout California. My work centers on anxiety, complex trauma, and attachment-related patterns, the kind that show up in relationships, in the body, and in the way you move through the world. I get to the root, not just what’s on the surface.
I hold an MSW from the University of Southern California and have over 10 years of clinical experience with advanced post-graduate training in trauma treatment, including Brainspotting through Phase 5 directly with David Grand, PhD, the founder of the model. I have also trained at the Pacific Trauma Center, where I deepened my work in complex trauma and attachment-based treatment.
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