Danny Nuttall BWRT Practitioner

27/02/2026

🧠What’s the difference between EMDR and Brainspotting?🪄

Here is an extract taken from Taproot Therapy - talking about when David Grand Discovered Brainspotting through the use of EMDR.

‘During that session, Grand was using EMDR’s bilateral eye movements, slowly waving two fingers back and forth as the skater tracked them while focusing on the performance block. Then something shifted. As Grand moved his fingers to a particular position in her visual field, he noticed an involuntary wobble in one eye, a reflexive response he had observed countless times during EMDR sessions but never understood. Usually, he would continue the bilateral movement pattern, following the EMDR protocol. This time, acting on pure intuition, he did something different. He stopped moving his hand and held his fingers in that exact position where the eye wobble occurred.

“Keep looking right here,” he told her.

What happened next changed both their lives and ultimately the field of trauma treatment. As she maintained her gaze on that fixed point, processing accelerated dramatically. Material emerged that hadn’t surfaced during months of bilateral EMDR. Memories, emotions, physical sensations, and insights cascaded through her awareness with unprecedented intensity. The session produced breakthrough after breakthrough, layer after layer of the trauma and psychological material underlying her performance block releasing in ways Grand had never witnessed.’

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27/02/2026

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27/02/2026

BWRT? Why?
Unknown / do not know how BWRT® works👉🏻
Many professionals are not yet exposed to BWRT®, or have heard of it as a new name, without sufficient scientific information or clinical experiences. Since BWRT® is not part of classic academic curricula, unknown generates doubt.
The usual reaction: “I don’t know, therefore I don’t believe it.”
Professional identity is deeply invested in existing approaches👉🏻
Traditional trainings such as CBT, EMDR, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, etc. require years of study, supervision and experience. Accepting a newer and faster method like BWRT® arouses resistance, because it can be experienced as a threat to the value of their experience.
“If this works better and faster, what have I been doing for 15 years?”
Fear that BWRT “rewrites” the way therapy works👉🏻
BWRT® does not follow the classic rules: there is no exposure, no long analysis, no traditional verbal processing. For many professionals, this is outside their comfort zone and challenges the way they conceptualize healing. BWRT® works differently from classic approaches. There is no deep analysis, no traumatic exposure, no psychodynamic interpretation 👉🏻all of which may seem “too simple to be true” to a professional who has built everything on complexity. Ironically, the simplicity of BWRT® sometimes makes it difficult to accept by those who are used to complex processes.
Lack of professional flexibility and scientific curiosity
Some professionals are more committed to stability than development. They may not seek further because they are satisfied with what they know. This is professional conformism that leaves no room for growth.
Status in the professional community
If someone is known as an expert in a certain approach (e.g. “CBT expert”), switching to a new approach like BWRT may seem like a risk to their professional image. They may even feel like a “newbie” in another field, a role they may avoid. Some professionals are so identified with their approach that anything that challenges this structure is experienced as a personal attack. Well, it is not the fear of BWRT, but the fear of changing their role.
✅ Institutional and academic approach has not yet included BWRT officially👉🏻
BWRT is outside the classic structures of state institutions, NGOs and universities. Professionals who are closely linked to these structures often follow the institutional line and not free research.
✅ Fear of change, a natural psychological resistance👉🏻
No matter how advanced we are, our brains are built to preserve what is known and safe. BWRT® seems very effective, very fast, very different, and that makes it scary.
✅ The logical fallacy: “If it’s not part of the system, it’s not valid”👉🏻
This is a form of institutional bias that prevents the exploration of new methods simply because they are not yet part of the accepted academic system.

But as the history of psychotherapy says:
“Every new method is first rejected, then criticized, and finally adopted.”

26/02/2026

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14/02/2026

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31/01/2026

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26/01/2026

14/01/2026

Brain Working Recursive Therapy (BWRT) works by interrupting the brain’s automatic, often negative, responses in a crucial “cognitive gap” before they fully form, allowing for the creation of new, more desirable neural pathways, effectively “rewiring” the brain to change unwanted habits, fears, or anxieties into healthier reactions, often in just a few sessions, without needing to relive trauma.
How it Works: The Process
Identify the Problem: The therapist helps you identify the specific unwanted behavior or feeling (e.g., anxiety, phobia, bad habit) and what you’d prefer instead.
Access the “Cognitive Gap”: BWRT targets the brief moment between a stimulus and your conscious reaction, a natural pause that allows for rerouting.
“Freeze” the Response: Using specific techniques, the therapist induces a type of “freeze” response, stopping the old, unhelpful pattern in its tracks.
Create New Pathways: You then choose and “install” a new, preferred response, training the brain to react differently in the future.
No Trauma Reliving: A key feature is that you don’t need to delve into traumatic details; you just need to know what you want to change.
Key Principles
Reptilian Brain: It leverages the primitive part of the brain that creates quick, instinctual responses based on past experiences.
Factory Settings: The goal is to reset these automatic programs to their “factory settings,” replacing old responses with new ones.
Efficiency: BWRT is known for its speed, often providing significant results in one to four sessions.
What It Can Help With
Anxiety & Panic Attacks
Phobias & Fears
Unwanted Habits & Addictions
Low Self-Esteem & Confidence
PTSD & Depression
Weight Management

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The mechanics of the Brain can be harnessed therapeutically. I’m an integrative therapist. Utilising BrainWorking Recursive Therapy ( BWRT), and Brainspotting.
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