What’s OEI Therapy?

A Gentle, Effective Way to Heal Trauma

Observed & Experiential Integration (OEI) Therapy is a groundbreaking treatment approach designed to help people recover from a variety of issues like trauma and psychosomatic pain etc. Unlike traditional talk therapy, OEI works directly with both the mind and body, helping to release distress that often feels “stuck” inside of us.

What’s OEI Therapy?

A Gentle, Effective Way to Heal Trauma

Observed & Experiential Integration (OEI) is a groundbreaking counselling approach designed to help people recover from trauma and emotional pain. Unlike traditional talk therapy, OEI works directly with both the mind and body, helping to release distress that often feels “stuck.”

Theoretical Foundations & Integration

Developed in the late 90s by Neurological Psychologist Dr. Rick Bradshaw and Psychotherapist Audrey Cook, OEI Therapy was designed to provide relief and insight towards things that have made people feel overwhelmed or uncomfortable.

OEI was made to reach what is hard to be spoken about.

Its unique approach allows for minimum need to verbally process traumatic or significant stimuli and still see progress. In fact, people tend to speak up about it naturally soon after.

OEI was created to be highly versatile and adaptive.

It can be intermixed into a variety of other treatment approaches like art therapy, couples counselling, play therapy, massage therapy and so much more.

OEI engages with the brain and body.

It properly helps with adjusting us on all fronts. It ensures that we can become healthily functional in a holistic manner.

want to know more about OEI?

Here’s Dr. Rick Bradshaw’s Tedx Talk:

OEI Therapy is effective towards the following issues:

  • Body image concerns and eating disorders

  • Trauma

  • Addictions

  • Peak performance training

  • Distressing relationships with others

  • Systematic and gradual desensitisation

  • Language acquisition & accent reduction

  • Poor sense of self and self-harming behaviours

  • Dissociative disorders & attachment difficulties

  • Somatic symptoms (eg. fibromyalgia, MS, PNES, chronic pain etc.)

  • Mood-related disorders (eg. anxiety, post-partum depression, depression etc.)

By gently working with eye movements and body responses, OEI helps dissolve great traumatic distress, restore calm, and build resilience. Many clients describe the process as surprisingly gentle, yet deeply impactful.

In short—

OEI helps you move from feeling stuck in the past, to living with freedom in the present.

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