Your practice is ready
to go deeper.
A consultant who’s been exactly where you are
Whether you just completed Phase I or you’ve been using Brainspotting for years, consultation is where your confidence — and your clients’ healing — expands. Let’s figure out what’s working, what’s getting in the way, and where you want to go next.
Schedule a ConsultPatrice Flanagan-Morris, LCSW, has been practicing Brainspotting since 2017 and consulting clinicians toward certification and advanced practice since 2020. She is the founder of Empowerment Within LLC in Waukesha, Wisconsin — a group practice rooted in nervous system healing, somatic approaches, and the belief that your clients deserve a therapist who fully trusts the process they’re offering.
Patrice’s clinical world is shaped by developmental trauma, fawn responses, and people-pleasing — the patterns that keep high-functioning, empathetic people stuck in survival mode. She weaves Parts Work (IFS) throughout her Brainspotting practice, helping clients access the parts that need to be witnessed before deeper processing can happen. She also offers Brainspotting Intensives: extended, immersive sessions for clients ready to move through something significant in a compressed container.
In consultation, Patrice brings that same attunement. She isn’t just a credentialed trainer — she’s a working clinician who uses Brainspotting with every client, thinks deeply about countertransference and co-regulation, and understands what it’s like to sit with someone in a profound moment and wonder if you’re holding it right. That lived, relational experience is what she brings to every consultation session.
Patrice is a consultee of Cherie Lindberg, PhD, and has trained extensively across all five phases of Brainspotting, as well as specialized intensives and assistant roles. She works with clinicians nationally via telehealth.
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Credentials & training
Deeply trained. Actively practicing.
- BSP Phases I–V with Melanie Young PsyD, Cherie Lindberg PhD, & David Grand PhD
- BSP & Parts Work — Assistant with Cherie Lindberg PhD & Cynthia Swartzberg, LCSW
- BSP & Clearing Limbic Countertransference — Assistant with Cherie Lindberg PhD & Cynthia Swartzberg, LCSW
- BSP & Mindful Co-regulation in Relationships — Assistant with Cherie Lindberg PhD
- BSP & Expansion in Creativity & Performance — Assistant with Lisa Larson, LMFT
- Freeze to Thaw & The Next Level with Mary Jane O’Rourke, LCSW & Serene Caulkins, PT
- BSP & Brain Science to Inform Your Practice with Deborah Antinori, MA, LPC
- Blindspotting with Connie Johnshoy-Currie, PsyD
- BSP, Spirituality & Intuition + Manifesting with Cherie Lindberg, PhD
- Assistant for Phase I, II, IV & V trainings
Achieve New Heights In Your Career
“Advanced trainings and certifications are an investment that we as clinicians cannot afford to miss, and I can assure you from personal experience that you will not regret working with Patrice Flanagan-Morris at Empowerment Within. Patrice is a highly competent and experienced Brainspotting consultant whose intentionally empathetic presence will challenge you to achieve new heights in your career and understanding of psychology. If you are considering integrating Brainspotting into your practice or are otherwise in need of a supervisor, I highly recommend reaching out to Patrice.”
Nina Golemi — Certified in Brainspotting
Brainspotting FAQs
Yes.
Training gives you the foundation. Consultation is where it becomes yours. When you sit with a real client — a real nervous system in a real moment — you need more than technique. You need to trust your read of the room, know how to work with a stuck spot, and feel confident when something unexpected surfaces. Consultation gives you a space to process what’s happening in sessions, refine your attunement, and build the kind of trust in Brainspotting that clients can actually feel. It’s not a box to check. It’s where the growth happens.
Warm, direct, and collaborative. I’m not going to hand you a script or tell you what you should have done differently. I want to understand what’s happening in your sessions, what feels uncertain, and what’s working that you might not even realize is working yet. We’ll look at your cases through a nervous system lens, explore Parts and fawn dynamics when they’re showing up, and think together about how Brainspotting can go deeper for the specific clients in front of you. Expect to leave sessions feeling more grounded and more trusting of yourself — not like you have a longer to-do list.
My own clinical work is centered in developmental trauma, fawn responses, self-compassion, and the patterns that keep smart, sensitive people from trusting themselves. I integrate Parts Work throughout Brainspotting, which means I think a lot about what shows up between a client and their healing — and between a clinician and their client. If your clients are anxious, empathetic, or high-functioning and stuck, we probably have a lot to talk about. That said, I work with clinicians across a range of populations, and our free 15-minute call is the right place to see if it fits.
Not at all. I work with clinicians at every level — from those just finishing Phase I who want to start strong, to experienced practitioners who are deepening their work or moving toward certification. Wherever you are, there’s something to gain from consultation. If you’re brand new, we’ll focus on building confidence and comfort. If you’re advanced, we’ll focus on nuance, integration, and going further.
Consultation is individual — just you and me, one hour at a time. Certification requires a minimum of six sessions, and most consultees choose to meet monthly so there’s time to apply what we discuss between sessions. We start with your goals, where you’re feeling confident, and where you feel stuck or uncertain. From there, we work at whatever pace makes sense for you. I’m available nationally via telehealth, so geography is never a barrier.
Consultation sessions are $175 per hour. I can work with clinicians whose organizations are covering the cost and provide invoices for each session. I also offer a free 15-minute call before you commit — so you can ask questions, get a feel for how I work, and make sure it’s the right fit. No pressure.
I’m a working clinician — I use Brainspotting in sessions every day. I’ve trained across all five phases, sat in the assistant chair at dozens of trainings, and done my own deep work as a consultee of Cherie Lindberg, PhD. My specialty areas aren’t just credentials — fawn responses, Parts Work, nervous system regulation, and developmental trauma are what I live and breathe clinically. When you bring a hard case or an uncertain moment to consultation, I’m not going to give you a textbook answer. I’m going to think with you, because I’ve been in a version of that room too.
Ready to Trust the process more?
Start with a free 15-minute call. We’ll figure out where you are, where you want to go, and whether working together makes sense.
“We don’t have to do it all alone…
we were never meant to.”
– Brené Brown
