one eye integration

In the past 12 years a series of psychotherapy treatment techniques has been developed by two innovative clinicians in Vancouver, B.C. Since those first developments, hundreds of psychologists, physicians, nurses, social workers and counsellors all over the world have been using the techniques with great success, to treat the following:

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Dissociative Disorders
• Compulsivity
• Addictions
• Panic Attacks
• Anger & Rage
• Conflict in Couples
• Complex & Simple Phobias
• Self-Sabotage & Procrastination
• Suicidal & Self-Mutilation Urges
• Complicated Grief & Agitated Depression

Trauma from all sources:

• Sexual Offenders
• Parents & Family Members
• Business Partners
• Spouses & Siblings
• Robbers & Assailants
• Auto & Industrial Accidents
• Workplace Supervisors, Colleagues & Subordinates

Physical Symptoms with Emotional Roots:

• Numbness & Emptiness
• Headaches
• Nausea & Stomach Cramps
• Neck, Shoulder & Back Pain
• Dissociation/Memory & Concentration Problems

There are three sets of procedures in basic OEI:

1. Covering and uncovering the eyes one at a time, while experiencing a disturbing thought, feeling or memory.
2. Tracking stimuli across the visual field while client is experiencing distressing thoughts, feelings or physical sensations.
3. A tracking process for resolving painful or distressing signals from the body.

The goal of the first two exercises is to integrate thoughts, feelings, sensations or traumatic memory that are experienced differently with one eye covered. The object is to switch back and forth between the covered eyes until the experience is similar or the same, one side to the other. This process brings a stronger sense of connectedness between the two hemispheres of the brain. There are more complex techniques such as 'glitch' work, where holds or stuck states are resolved by seeking out these “glitches” in eye movement and massaging them away.  This work is learned in Level II training.