This is just a brief follow up to my last post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BPD/comments/6ajhcx/somatic_experiencing_touch_therapy/

There seems to be a lot of misinformation going around about this type of therapy, so I wanted to point out that to be a somatic experiencing touch therapist, the therapist must be a state certified therapist.  Besides the years of training for somatic experiencing (which is actually used in bits and pieces in most psychotherapies) s/he must have a valid state practitioner's license.

And there is a lot of talking still involved in this therapy.  

Just to clarify.

And I recommend the books "Waking the Tiger" and "Trauma and Memory" by Peter Levine for more information and more of an explanation. Also the book "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel Van der Kolk gives a really good explanation of the effects of childhood trauma in the body/brain. 