Phase 2

Dr. Mark Grixti

UK and International Brainspotting Trainer

Mark is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Brainspotting Master trainer, systemic therapist and EMDR consultant, Author and Pod Cast host.

Mark is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Brainspotting Master international trainer and consultant, Systemic therapist and EMDR consultant, Author and Podcast host of Awe In Trauma.

Mark was trained by David Grand, the founder and leader of Brainspotting, and following advanced trainings and consultations, David appointed Mark as UK Brainspotting trainer.

Dr Mark Grixti offers a wealth of experience to his work in the field spanning all ages and both online and in person approaches, all of which he brings to BSPUK Trainings. Vastly experienced in child and adult therapy. Mark specialises in attachment, abuse, and complex trauma.  

A passionate educator and mentor, he brings warmth and depth to his work as a university lecturer, group facilitator, and supervisor for Clinical Psychologists and therapists across related disciplines. Alongside his clinical practice, he is a Brainspotting Master trainer and plant medicine assisted therapist.

Mark’s dedication to healing goes beyond the therapy room, integrating diverse healing modalities to create international retreat experiences, offering transformative spaces for healing, learning, and expansion.

Through his podcast, Awe In Trauma, Mark continues to explore into the divinity, science, spaciousness and intuition of hurt and healing.

Mark’s enchanting illustrated book introducing and explaining the use of Brainspotting Therapy in a family friendly way is now available and titled: Brainspotting for young people: An adventure into the mind (2015) – Foreword by David Grand, PhD. Mark is also a contributing author in The Power Of Brainspotting: An International Anthology (2018).

Some reflections on Mark’s initial introduction to Brainspotting:

“When I was first trained with David, in London, I remember arriving with an excitement about this new approach called Brainspotting that I had heard some intriguing things about. At that point, I had numerous trainings on top of my core Clinical Psychology training and had for some time been moved by the way that EMDR had taken my work to a new level of effective deep processing and healing. Yet I was searching for something more, something that offered greater attunement with the client and was free from some of the frustrating and limiting elements that are so common in many therapeutic approaches and techniques.

I realised pretty early on in the Brainspotting training that I was in the right place. Therapeutic limitations were gently deconstructed and the limits of a type of programming seen in therapy so often was recognised, creating a wonderful felt sense of relief, excitement and liberation. The obstructions of fear and even guilt that come with therapeutic doctrines were discussed and debated creating an open space within which I began to appreciate how I could really increase my attunement with my clients and help them to meet their full potential and inner healing through this exceptional attachment. Reminding me of Alan Schore’s sentiments in The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, “attachment trauma was originally relational, and so the healing must be relational, a mutual process”.

This attunement with the client, alongside the training on interpersonal neurobiology was so stimulating, yet at another level felt so familiar and affirming to the deep beliefs that I have always held and valued about therapy. The practical application of Brainspotting, USING an amazing technique to access brainspots and work into the deeper subcortical regions was so refreshingly empowering. Brainspotting has since become the bedrock of all of my therapy, supervision, teaching and consultation work, integrating with, and extending on, my past learnings.

It is indeed an honour to be appointed as UK trainer and to have the opportunity to meet with so many people around the world who are open and curious to further develop their power and effectiveness through Brainspotting.

“Mark is a really good teacher and trainer; calm, patient, engaged, knowledgeable and it was really easy to follow him in the theoretical and practical part”

“Thank you Mark for the immense kindness you inspire and thank you to the whole team.”