Somatic Experiencing® is a body-based approach to trauma and nervous system dysregulation that works at a different level from conventional therapy. It doesn't treat trauma as a story to be retold or a belief system to be restructured. It treats trauma as a physiological event, one held in the nervous system, and works to resolve it there. As interest in body-focused approaches grows, particularly among people who have found cognitive methods incomplete, more people are asking what somatic experiencing actually involves and whether it might help them.