• When appropriate, SE employs awareness of body sensation to help people "renegotiate" and heal rather than re-live or re-enact trauma.
•  SE's guidance of the bodily "felt sense" allows the highly aroused survival energies to be safely experienced and gradually discharged.
• SE may employ touch in support of the renegotiation process.
• SE “titrates” experience (breaks down into small, incremental steps), rather than evoking catharsis - which can overwhelm the regulatory mechanisms of the organism.

In addition to completing the SE professional training, I have studied SE Touch Skills with Kathy Kain, including a special focus in working with early developmental trauma. 

What is Somatic Experiencing?

"The Somatic Experiencing® method is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other stress disorders. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine, resulting from his multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics, together with over 45 years of successful clinical application. The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma.

The SE approach facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions." 

Above text quoted from https://traumahealing.org/about-us/#about.