Category: FAQs
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What’s the Difference Between OEI Therapy vs EMDR
OEI (Observed & Experiential Integration) is a gentle, brain-based therapy for trauma that helps you heal without having to relive painful memories. Unlike EMDR, OEI works with your body and subconscious in the present moment. It’s ideal for those who feel overwhelmed by traditional methods or who haven’t found relief through talk therapy.
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Why Is OEI Therapy Called Observed & Experiential Integration?
What makes Observed Experiential Integration (OEI) different from other therapies? This gentle, body-based trauma therapy helps you observe, experience, and integrate difficult emotions and sensations—without needing to relive painful memories. Learn how OEI rewires the brain, calms the nervous system, and restores wholeness, especially when other methods like EMDR feel too overwhelming.
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Why You Need to Integrate Trauma & How OEI Helps
Trauma scrambles how memories are stored because the brain becomes overwhelmed. Instead of clear, verbal memories, trauma often gets stuck as flashbacks, body sensations, or intense emotions. OEI therapy (Observed & Experiential Integration) helps integrate the brain’s logic, emotion, and sensory systems—so you can process and release trauma at the root for lasting healing.
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How Trauma Affects Your Sleep
Trauma can keep your nervous system stuck in high alert, making sleep feel impossible. Learn how trauma affects sleep, common symptoms, and why OEI therapy helps. OEI uses visual processing to calm the system, reduce nightmares, and support more restful sleep—without needing to talk through every detail of the trauma.
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Can EMDR Make Your Trauma Worse?
EMDR can make things worse when revivification happens by talking or thinking about trauma brings back vivid emotions and sensations from the original event. The neuroscience can help you understand why this can be retraumatizing because , making you feel like you’re reliving the trauma in the present. Instead of helping, it can increase distress,…
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How Does OEI Therapy Heal Trauma?
OEI is a trauma therapy that uses eye positions and body awareness to help process trauma without relying on talk. It’s helpful for people dealing with anxiety, PTSD, dissociation, and emotional overwhelm. OEI works with the non-verbal parts of the brain where trauma is stored, offering a safer way to shift old patterns and feel…
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OEI Therapy vs Brainspotting
OEI and Brainspotting both work with eye positions and the nervous system to process trauma. But they’re not the same. This article explains how they differ in approach, training, and technique—so you can figure out what might work best for you. Trauma recovery is deeply influenced by the quality of the relationship between client and…
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How Does OEI Therapy Work for Trauma?
OEI is a neuroscience-based trauma therapy that helps process stuck trauma memories without relying on speech. It uses eye position and guided techniques to calm the nervous system and reduce symptoms. OEI can help people recover from both simple and complex trauma in a way that feels safe, clear, and often much faster than talk…
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OEI: A Different Approach to Trauma Therapy
OEI therapy uses visual and brain-based tools to access memories that language can’t reach because traditional talk therapy doesn’t always work for trauma. Observed Experiential Integration (OEI) can reduce trauma symptoms quickly, even in complex cases. OEI may help with nightmares, flashbacks, and anxiety. This article explains why OEI works and how it differs from…
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OEI Therapy vs. EMDR: Understanding the Key Differences
Observed Experiential Integration (OEI) Therapy is a trauma-processing therapy that uses visual pathways to integrate both brain hemispheres, reducing anxiety and trauma symptoms, and evolved out of EMDR therapy, by my mentor, Dr. Rick Bradshaw. Because clients are stuck in a learned procedure of trauma, Accelerated OEI does not require clients to talk about their…
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