I've been doing sensorimotor psychotherapy since April. It relegates 'talk therapy' into an adjunct to the general philosophy of the treatment, which is more about how the body keeps re-treading and re-traumatising; and SP therapists work on this aspect with patients. The core book about it is Trauma and the Body, by Pat Ogden et al. It's not a self-help book; it's a substantial and challenging read, with all the encouraging breakthrough stories in the second half, and a great deal of theory about the 'triune brain' to go through in the first half.
I didn't shop around for a therapist, or even consciously seek a trauma therapist; I just chose a therapist and this is what she does. She took a long time to convince me to try it, maybe six months, before I was really willing to commit.
So I can't talk as some kind of evangelist for SP. But it is trauma therapy which grew out of research into Vietnam vets in the late 1970s, and I can say that SP's approach to treating the problem 'beyond the limits of language' does have a genuine validity, even at this early stage. And so I thought I would mention it, since this thread has mentioned 'talk therapy' with a little frustration a few times.
I should add that I also had an effective course of cognitive therapy in my late twenties, but that was to address a very specific hurt that I had been hiding from myself, whereas SP is longer work about changing how you live your 'traumatised life' and making it better.
