Why choose MEMI over Brainspotting? Revitalize Your Therapy Practice
Explore How MEMI Therapy Outperforms Brainspotting, Offering Unique Benefits for Therapists and Clients Alike
Multichannel Eye Movement Integration (MEMI)
Focus: MEMI is a newer approach that aims to quickly integrate traumatic memories through multi-directional eye movements and memory reconsolidation techniques.
Technique: Because it’s a sensory-based approach, MEMI reorganizes cognitions without the need for cognitive restructuring or multiple tests of cognitions.
Process: With MEMI, clients engage in sensory-based processing without the need for extensive verbal discussion or cognitive restructuring. The approach aims for natural memory reconsolidation, making it efficient and non-invasive.
Sessions: MEMI often provides results in as few as 1-2 sessions, making it significantly faster than traditional trauma therapies.
Brainspotting (BSP)
Focus: Identifies and addresses areas of the body and brain that contain unprocessed trauma through subtle eye positions.
Technique: Involves identifying and holding specific eye positions while the client experiences the trauma. The therapist may also use touch or other modalities to facilitate the processing.
Process: Focuses on identifying and releasing deep-seated emotional and physical pain stored within the body.
Sessions: BSP sessions vary depending on the client’s trauma history, typically requiring 6-12 sessions for significant progress.
Key Differences Between MEMI and BSP
Eye Movements: Brainspotting searches for specific eye positions to access and process trauma, while MEMI employs multi-directional eye movements across the entire visual field.
Approach: BSP is more focused on identifying and addressing specific areas of the body and brain containing unprocessed trauma, while MEMI emphasizes rapid memory integration through a series of eye movements and sensory tests.
Client Comfort: BSP often involves a deeper exploration of the client’s subjective experience, while MEMI uses a more streamlined approach.
Why Choose MEMI Over BSP?
- Faster Results: MEMI is designed for rapid memory integration, often achieving results in fewer sessions than traditional trauma therapies like BSP.
- Gentle and Non-Invasive: MEMI's approach is generally considered gentler and less invasive than some other trauma therapies, making it suitable for clients with sensitivities.
- Simpler for Therapists: MEMI has a relatively straightforward therapeutic model, making it easier for therapists to learn and integrate into their practice compared to some other approaches like BSP.
- Proven Effectiveness: While Brainspotting’s focus on somatic awareness can be beneficial, MEMI provides a faster and more systematic method for resolving trauma. Testimonials from therapists trained in both methods indicate that MEMI often outperforms Brainspotting in terms of efficiency and client satisfaction, particularly for complex trauma cases.
How MEMI Works
1. Client Comfort
Before any exposure to distressing events, clients are “anchored” in safety and security, allowing them to comfortably access emotional memories.
2. Targeting of Sensory-based Variables
By focusing on trauma-related imagery, sensations and feelings, chronic neurosensory reactions are quickly reprocessed and emotional distress is released with only four eye movement sets.
3. Rewiring the Brain
In only one 50-minute session, even the most difficult memories are reprocessed as the brain rewires itself and new, healthier neurological pathways are formed.
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Who Can Benefit from MEMI?
- Trauma Therapists: Help your clients process emotional memories without the need for prolonged sessions or invasive techniques.
- Clinicians with Clients Struggling with Complex Trauma: MEMI provides a gentler, more structured alternative to Brainspotting, offering rapid trauma integration for clients who may find Brainspotting’s open-ended nature overwhelming or challenging.
- Life Coaches, NLP Practitioners and Hypnotherapists: Integrate MEMI into your practice when working with trauma and stress-related issues.
Frequently Asked Questions
Brainspotting focuses on identifying specific “brainspots” in the client’s field of vision that are associated with traumatic memories, facilitating deep emotional release. MEMI uses multi-directional eye movements across the entire visual field to promote rapid and non-invasive integration of traumatic memories without needing to locate specific brainspots.
Yes, MEMI has a clearly defined protocol that leverages multi-directional eye movements to target trauma processing efficiently, whereas Brainspotting is more open-ended and exploratory.
Yes, MEMI’s gentle and non-invasive approach makes it an excellent option for clients with heightened sensitivities, reducing the risk of emotional overwhelm compared to Brainspotting.
Yes, both approaches involve sensory processing, but MEMI focuses on rapid integration through multi-directional eye movements, while Brainspotting works by locating and processing unresolved emotions tied to specific visual points.
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