Odoki sits alongside many existing approaches to wellbeing and change, while also differing from them in important ways.

Somatic work

Like somatic approaches, Odoki recognises the central role of the body and nervous system. However, it places particular emphasis on insight and prediction error rather than regulation alone.

Psychotherapy and coaching

Odoki overlaps with psychotherapy and coaching in its concern for wellbeing and behaviour. It differs in that it does not focus on diagnosis, narrative reconstruction, or goal-setting.

Change arises from understanding rather than intervention.

Meditation and insight practices

Odoki shares common ground with insight-based contemplative traditions, particularly in its exploration of identity and assumption. It presents these ideas in secular language and grounds them in contemporary neuroscience.

What Odoki adds

Many approaches work with the protector — the anxious part, the critical voice, the defensive behaviour.

Odoki looks instead at what is being protected. This shift in attention often reveals that the original need for protection has passed, or was never quite what it seemed.