Irulan, I wish I could bottle up what you said and quote it to some of my clients. Therapy is called "work" for a reason.
One of the things I am thinking of doing is getting certified as a yoga therapist. While I occasionally show people poses for relaxation, I'd like to use it more as a way to treat trauma and other anxiety disorders. The reason it works is that we store a lot of feelings and memories in the physical body and yoga can release them in a very powerful way. There is some very exciting research going on about this, at BU/Boston Medical Center. Hopefully, it will be an empirically accepted treatment soon.