HOW DOES S.E. (SOMATIC EXPERIENCING) DIFFER FROM OTHER THERAPEUTIC  MODALITIES?

1.  SE. helps to develop the organismic capacity for self regulation

2.  SE. employs awareness of body sensation to help people “renegotiate” and heal rather than relive or reenact trauma.

3.  SE’s guidance of the therapeutic “felt sense” allows the highly aroused survival energies to be safely experienced and

gradually discharged.

4.  SE. “titrates” experience rather than evoking catharsis-which can overwhelm the regulatory mechanisms of the organism.

5.  SE helps to eliminate pitfalls of re-traumatization and the spurious generation of ‘false memories’.

(Peter Levine)