Can OEI Therapy Be Combined with Hypnotherapy for Better Trauma Healing?

Combining Observed Experiential Integration (OEI) therapy with hypnotherapy is possible and can be super effective for trauma recovery.

Both methods work with how your brain and body process trauma, but they use different techniques. Using them together can help you get better results, especially if you have PTSD, complex trauma, or feel stuck, even if you’ve tried other therapies but nothing seems to be working.

What Is OEI Therapy and How Does It Work?

OEI therapy is a body-based trauma treatment that uses eye movements, body awareness, and breath to help your brain process and integrate traumatic memories.

OEI is gentle and doesn’t require you to talk about painful, personal detail of your trauma. OEI enables your brain to process, integrate, and store trauma. When the memories of trauma are integrated, you will feel like the past is in the past. This can help you feel less overwhelmed and more present. Read more about integration – here.

What Is Hypnotherapy and What Does It Do?

Hypnotherapy is a focused state where your mind is more open to suggestions and change. With Accelerated Hypnotherapy, you don’t have to be relaxed. If you could, you probably wouldn’t need it.

In this focused state, you can access new resources in your subconscious mind, where many automatic reactions and beliefs are stored. This is what is really driving you and your behavior, even though you want something different. The subconscious always wins because your conscious desires are like a mouse on the back of an elephant. Your subconscious is like an elephant who is walking in the direction of your past. So even though you want something different, you always get what is familiar, what you’ve always had in the past.

Hypnotherapy can help you change reduce anxiety, change maladaptive patterns, and build new coping skills. You stay in control the whole time, and you don’t have to talk about things you’re not ready to share.

Why Combine OEI Therapy and Hypnotherapy?

Combining OEI and Accelerated Hypnotherapy means you’re working on trauma from two angles.

OEI helps your body and brain process stuck emotions and memories. Accelerated Hypnotherapy helps you update your subconscious beliefs and responses, all the unconscious things that drive you and keep you stuck.

When you combine both, you can make faster and deeper progress. You don’t have to relive or talk through every painful memory. You can work at your own pace and focus on what feels safe.

Who Can Benefit from This Combined Approach?

If you have PTSD, complex trauma, or feel stuck AF from betrayal, using OEI therapy and Accelerated Hypnotherapy together can help. This approach is especially helpful if you’ve tried traditional talk therapy and didn’t get the results you wanted.

Accelerated OEI Trauma Therapy can help with flashbacks, panic, feeling disconnected, and other trauma symptoms. My clients find they feel more in control, less triggered, and more hopeful. There’s room for happiness.

What Does a Session Look Like?

A session might start with OEI techniques, like covering one eye and noticing what comes up in your body or mind. Then, you might move into hypnotherapy, where you connect with the subconscious and we follow it as it guides us along pathways of healing.

We notice what’s happening and respond in real time to what is coming up in real time. No scripts like traditional hypnosis or procedures like EMDR that we’re forced to follow.

You don’t have to push yourself through a procedure. We always look for the calmest, safest place and stay there.

Is This Approach Effective?

OEI therapy and Accelerated Hypnotherapy are safe and effective. Your superconscious guides the sessions, you stay in control and can stop at any time.

Your experience goes with you after the session, so there’s no homework to listen to. We can give you tools to use on your own when you feel overwhelmed.

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