What You’re Carrying Has a Deeper Origin Than You May Realize
Brainspotting Therapy & Intensives for Teens and Adults
Everything you need to heal is already inside you. The pain, the anxiety, the weight that won’t lift no matter how hard you’ve tried, these aren’t signs that something is broken in you.
They are signs that something deep in your nervous system is ready to be reached. That’s exactly where this work goes.
YOU’RE NOT IMAGINING IT. AND YOU’RE NOT ALONE.
You’ve been in therapy before, but something still hasn’t shifted.
You’re functioning on the outside, but exhausted by what you’re carrying on the inside.
You’ve tried to think your way through it, and it hasn’t worked.
Your body holds tension, pain, or reactions you can’t fully explain.
You have a sense that what you’re feeling now didn’t start with you.
What you’re experiencing may be showing up as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, perfectionism, sleep disturbances, social withdrawal, or even physical symptoms like migraines and stomach issues. These are not separate problems. They are different expressions of the same unhealed wound.
Hi, I’m Maureen Donohue
I’m a licensed psychotherapist, Brainspotting Consultant, and trauma specialist with 34 years of experience working with trauma in some of the most complex settings imaginable, from public child welfare in Los Angeles to full-time private practice.
I am also a survivor of developmental trauma. My own deep healing is what fuels my passion for this work. I know from the inside what it takes to get to the root, and I know the life changing freedom that becomes possible when you do.
My passion and expertise is guiding people to tap into their subcortical brain to access their own innate power to heal. This is not about managing symptoms or learning to cope better. It’s about reaching the deep brain where the origin of your pain actually lives, and where lasting change actually happens.
I draw from an integrative blend of the most cutting-edge neuroscience-based healing modalities, both western and eastern/ traditional:
Brainspotting (Certified & Consultant) · EMDR (Certified) · Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) · Internal Family Systems (IFS) · Somatic Embodiment & Regulation · Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) · HeartMath (Certified) · Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) · Flash Technique · Reiki Master Teacher · Shamanic Healing Practices · Certified Medium & Intuitive Healer
Each healing journey is unique.
Choose your path to healing
Intensives
An immersive, multi-day healing experience unlike anything most practitioners offer. My intensives are built on the Digging Roots model of Brainspotting, which means we begin by digging to the root before we even begin the Brainspotting itself. We start from the origin instead of working our way toward it. For in person clients, sessions can be held at the ocean, where something in your body still remembers that in connection with the earth is how all of your ancestors once healed.
Individual Therapy
For teens and adults ready to move beyond symptom management and into the deeper work. Using Brainspotting as the primary modality alongside an integrative blend of somatic, IFS, DBR, and other approaches, sessions are designed to reach the origin of what you’re carrying, not just the surface of it. Subcortical processing through Brainspotting is up to 10 to 60 times faster than working at the cortical level, while still always honoring the pace your nervous system sets.
HERE’S WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE
Healing creates ripples.
When you heal, it doesn’t stay inside you. It moves outward through every relationship you’re in, through your family, through your children, through the generations that came before and come after you.
What becomes possible is a nervous system that is no longer running on old protective patterns. Anxiety that once hijacked your body and your mind begins to lose its grip. Pain that the body has been holding for years, sometimes decades, sometimes lifetimes, begins to move. You find yourself more present, more connected, more at home in your own skin.
The freedom is just on the other side of this. It is profound, it is doable, and you deserve it.
Are you a professional seeking to reach your full potential?
Brainspotting Consultation
For Brainspotting practitioners ready to deepen their practice beyond technique. The depth to which your clients can heal is directly related to your own capacity for attunement. This is where that capacity grows.
You’ve done the trainings. You’ve sat with clients in the Brainspotting frame. You’ve felt the power of the model and you’ve also felt the edges of what you can hold. There’s a difference between knowing Brainspotting and being able to embody it fully, to hold your clients in the uncertainty where real healing happens, to stay attuned when the work gets deep.
That’s what consultation is for. And it’s what this is.
The Next Step Is Simpler Than You Think
You don’t need to have it all figured out before you reach out.
You just need a sense that something needs to change.