Brainspotting & Inner BlindSpot Work

Developed and Presented by Connie Johnshoy-Currie, Psy.D.

7.5 CE Hours Available

From Dr. Pie Frey, Brainspotting Trainer

“I am thankful to Connie for developing and teaching the Inner BlindSpot Work training, which was life-changing for me. Although I was aware of my health concerns, working with my blind spot really helped me see that I need to actively engage in and take responsibility for my ongoing health and medical procedures.”

What happens when we know something but still don’t see the whole picture?

A client may understand a pattern intellectually and still find themselves repeating it.

A therapist may recognize that something feels different with a particular client without yet understanding why.

We may find ourselves stuck, surprised by our own reactions, missing warning signals, repeating familiar patterns, or saying: “I don’t know why I keep doing this.”

These are some of the places Inner BlindSpot Work begins.

Developed by Connie Johnshoy-Currie, Psy.D., Brainspotting & Inner BlindSpot Work is an experiential specialty workshop exploring patterns, reactions, assumptions, adaptive responses, and aspects of experience that may remain outside conscious awareness. Grounded in Brainspotting’s Neuroexperiential Model, Dual Attunement Frame, uncertainty, focused mindfulness, and trust in the client’s system, this workshop offers flexible ways of working with BlindSpots while remaining responsive to what emerges organically in the therapeutic process.

In this workshop, you will explore:

• How Inner BlindSpots may appear through repeated patterns, stuckness, reactivity, surprises, relationships, and areas outside awareness.

• The relationship among awareness, adaptive survival responses, the unconscious, metaphor, and the 6 F’s of threat and trauma response.

• How to identify and work with a BlindSpot and a VisionSpot/WisdomSpot without imposing an answer or outcome on the client.

• Flexible Inner BlindSpot Work setups, including Double Spotting and additional Brainspots that may emerge through dual attunement.

• The use of metaphor as a client-generated doorway into focused mindful processing.

• Ways our own blindspots, expectations, assumptions, and limbic countertransference may affect clinical attunement.

  
  

This is an experiential training

You won’t only hear about Inner BlindSpot Work. Participants will observe a live demonstration, engage in experiential learning, and have substantial time to practice the work from both the therapist and client perspectives.

The goal is not to memorize a rigid protocol. It is to develop enough understanding of the frame to use it flexibly while remaining attuned to the individual client and their processing needs.

What participants say

“This workshop really blew me away… So many connections and a deeply profound shift. I can’t wait to use this with clients!”

— MD

“Connie has a wonderful way of conveying the information and is warm and welcoming to new ideas and questions.”

— Previous participant

“Brainspotting and Inner Blind Spot Work is a fantastic specialty workshop for Brainspotting practitioners at all levels. Connie Johnshoy-Currie is a wonderful and warm teacher. The content and BlindSpot frame setups were innovative… I highly recommend this specialty workshop.”

— JC

Who is this training for?

Brainspotting practitioners who have completed Phase 1 and want to deepen their work with repeated patterns, stuckness, parts, complex trauma, adaptive responses, and areas that may remain outside conscious awareness.

Formal Learning Objectives

1. Implement the pre-training inventory and BlindSpot assessments with clients and in exploring personal BlindSpots.

2. Conceptualize awareness and the unconscious shadow.

3. Describe BlindSpots and how they may affect a person’s range of interacting, functioning, and thriving.

4. Differentiate types of BlindSpots and methods for identifying them.

5. Illustrate BlindSpots through metaphor.

6. Navigate attunement to the individual client using flexible Inner BlindSpot Work guidelines for processing.

7. Demonstrate basic Brainspotting and Inner BlindSpot Work setups for processing BlindSpots.

8. Integrate knowledge gained through observation of an Inner BlindSpot Work demonstration and practicum experiences from both therapist and client perspectives.

   
   

Continuing Education

7.5 CE hours are available through EngagedMinds Continuing Education for eligible participants who attend the full live online workshop and participate in required experiential/practicum activities. EngagedMinds Continuing Education maintains approvals that include ASWB ACE, NBCC, and applicable New York State professional boards. CE fee: $25. You may purchase CEs at this link after you register: https://courses.engagedmindsce.com/brainspotting-and-inner-blindspot-work-10-3-2026

Participants are responsible for determining whether these continuing education hours meet the requirements of their individual licensing board. All participants who complete the workshop will receive a Certificate of Completion.

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Workshop Materials

We will send digital workshop materials and preparation information before the training. Participants are encouraged to review the preparation materials before attending so that more of the live workshop can be devoted to demonstration, discussion, experiential learning, and practice.

Recording and Privacy

The privacy of participants, demonstrations, and practicum experiences is taken seriously. Participants may not record or capture images of other participants or experiential work. Any recording or photography intended for future educational, promotional, or commercial use will follow the workshop’s informed-consent procedures, including separate permission when participants are identifiable.

About Connie Johnshoy-Currie, Psy.D.

Connie Johnshoy-Currie, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist, Brainspotting Approved Consultant and Specialty Workshop Presenter, Certified Brainspotting Practitioner, EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Certified EMDR Therapist, and developmental psychologist. Her clinical interests include complex trauma, dissociative identity phenomena, parts work, developmental processes, children and adolescents, and supporting mental health professionals in their own clinical development. Connie has studied and practiced Brainspotting for many years and developed Inner BlindSpot Work through clinical experience, ongoing study, consultation, and exploration of how areas outside awareness can shape experience and therapeutic relationships.

Registration & Cancellation

General Registration: $265

Student/Retake Rate: $140

Refunds are available, less a $50 administrative fee, until workshop materials have been distributed, usually one week prior to training. After materials are sent, registration may be transferred to a future offering at no additional charge.

Questions about registration?

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