Payne, thanks for replying. I wish I knew how SE works! It was "invented" by Peter Levine, who wrote a book called "Waking the Tiger". It was about how animals in the wild react to trauma. They move in certain ways, naturally, to alleviate the trauma. Dr. Levine adapted this to therapy.

My T uses it no matter what I'm talking about. She asks me what I feel in my body when I express an emotion. Usually people feel it in their stomachs, throats, chest, especially when they're anxious. Usually legs are stable, so she does a kind of grounding thing with my legs, asks how they feel? Then she'll have me imagine the lake, or look outside to get calm. Then it's back to how my body feels again. Back and forth.

If I move a certain way, like I dig my hands into the couch, she will have me do that again, very slowly. If I fidget another way, she'll have me do it more. If I want to kick my feet, she says to just "do it". She says SE will get me out of my head (she says I am always too much in my head). I didn't use to like any questions about my body but I'm getting used to it. My T thinks SE will help me a lot, more than the EMDR we used to do.