Not massage or body work. I do see someone who is a doctor & does more stuff like that. He is trained in Chinese medicine, but was correcting my spine, neck, face, and skull from a bad car wreck.

The somatic therapy is real psychotherapy. S/he is an MFT, does all the stuff like informed consent. S/he told me that s/he doesn't use touch with everyone, just with people who are OK with it. S/he goes over your history before doing anything, asks about things like where you can't be touched, what you want to work on. S/he is somatic; may be somatic experiencing? Sorta off the grid, trained by Bowen? Specializes in trauma, DV, and other body-oriented issues.

S/he was surprised that I allowed myself to be touched. I was not touched as a kid, except in a violating way so it was not traumatic to me even with a long trauma history. S/he would ask as we did things if s/he could move or touch in certain ways. I was always in control of what we did. Does that help?