Weaver + Rose Somatics
1:1 Somatic Sessions
A one-on-one container for people looking to understand the language of their body, build capacity for their emotions, and learn to hold their past and present experiences.
The Western world teaches us that the body comes second to the brain. We’ve learned to live, be in relationship, and make decisions from our intellect and ignore the wisdom our body has to offer us. Learning to root into the body and listen to it’s cues allows us to understand our emotions, tend to physical pain, make embodied decisions that come from intuition, understand the map of our past experiences, and integrate traumas that have been stored inside of us.
“Through working with Stevie, I was able to become closer to myself, to begin to work through and connect with trauma I had not previously been able to fully understand on my own. She helped me to develop tools to use during hard times, to honor and listen to my body, and to free myself from restrictions and punishments I had been placing upon myself without even realizing it.” - Amy, 1:1 Client
This Somatic Counseling container offers individualized support to people seeking to understand themselves, their histories, their patterns and stories, and connection with their body and intuition.
Hang on, what is somatics?
“Soma” is the Greek root of somatic which means “of the body” or “the living body in its wholeness”. When we refer to something as “somatic” we are referring to the body and it’s experience. Somatic work, therapy, movement, and/or approaches are body based practices or techniques- many of them stemming from Chinese, Buddhist, and/or Tibetan lineage practices such as mindfulness- that lead us to whole body integration. When I say “whole body”, I mean the physical body, emotions, and psyche. Somatic practices increase our internal awareness; our ability to perceive ourselves from the inside. It’s an understanding of the self through a number of different, but related practices. These practices shift our relationship to and with ourselves, and in turn, with the people in our lives. Our interpersonal relationships as well as our communities at large. When we do this work, we tap into the web of existence and can feel ourselves as one part of an integrated whole.
We live in a mind over matter world and have been encouraged to believe that we can “think” our way out of anything. We are taught to move away from our bodies, our animal instincts and knowings, in favor of logic and intellect. The truth is that we need all of it. We need logic, intellect, ego, emotions, and an understanding of our bodily sensations. Because we have societally moved so far away from the body, we are limited in our perception of ourselves. In turn, we are limited in our understanding of how to be in relationship with ourselves and with other people.
Somatics allow us to see our bodies as an integral part of the self- not separate from it. When we take this approach, we allow space for inquiry and curiosity. There is room for the imprint of our past experiences to make themselves known which allows us a deeper ability to respond. When we link the language of the body (which was never separate from us to begin with, we’ve just learned to operate as if it is) to the mind, psyche, and spirit, we have more tools for awareness, healing, and self-expansion.
Common themes my clients and I work with
Something many of my clients are searching for is how to feel safer in their bodies and how to hold their past and present experiences. How to safely be in relationship with themselves, with other people, and with the world at large. Somatic work provides a container in which your body leads. Your body tells us what settles it and what doesn’t feel good. Your body leads us to an understanding of your foundation. This looks different for each and every person which is why it’s essential to me that my practice is client led.
Some common themes my clients and I work with are:
relearning how to appreciate and connect with their bodies
working through and with trauma or complex trauma
reworking intimacy patterns
finding a sense of self through transitional periods
building more capacity for emotions
connecting with the body as a neurodivergent person
learning how to reconnect with the Earth and their ancestry
Your body will tell us where to go next- this is about an individual’s journey and not a prescription for pleasure or wellness.
“Stevie is very principled in the way she works, and creates a very safe space to go really deep and be really vulnerable. In past experiences with other practitioners I haven’t felt safe enough to completely unravel and with Stevie I felt held and comfortable enough to go there.” - anonymous 1:1 Client
My books are currently full. I’ll be opening up my schedule again in late October.
1:1 Somatic Counseling Sessions
In session, we begin by building our connection together, finding resources for tending to your nervous system, and developing mindfulness skills. From there, we go deep into the depth and reclamation work. This looks different for everyone and my practice is very client-led, so we figure out how to do that together.
Typically in sessions, we will:
Build out your “toolkit” of resources
Learn the landscape of your emotions and the experience of your body
Discover the ecosystem of your body (how everything is connected for you)
Bring awareness to nervous system education (centering on your nervous system, every body is different)
Bring clarity to how you relate to your experiences, yourself, and other (attachment styles)
Build a new spaciousness of awareness, making more room for presence and curiosity.
During the course of our time together I aim to meet you where you are and learn what direction you want to grow in. This doesn’t mean I’m hands-off, but it does mean you have agency, self-consent, and autonomy. This might be new for you in a therapeutic space! And if that’s the case, we start there- we practice self-consent and weave that throughout our sessions.
I’m often asked what a typical session looks like and my general answer is that it looks really different for each person. And while that’s true, I can also say that the typical structure begins with landing together and checking in while finding a topic/theme/whatever’s really present, then we move into mindfulness (something we practice together!) and bring our awareness of the body into the room. From there, we get to swim around in what begins to unfold. It could be an image, symbol, emotion, bodily sensation, an impulse, a memory, even a sense of “nothingness”. And we move with it. We allow it the space it needs to unfold and get creative about how to work with what comes up. Here I work with my Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychology tools, generative somatics practices, parts work, and/or ritual practices and we see what wants to be worked out and how. To close, we’ll come back up to “ordinary consciousness” (aka how we walk around in our every day life) and process a bit as a way to integrate. I also recommend clients have a journaling practice or a walking/movement practice after sessions, even if it’s just 10 minutes.
As mentioned above, a foundational aspect of my work is the Hakomi Method. If you’re not familiar with it and curious about what the method has to offer, click here!
“One of the best things about the way Stevie works is that much of the discovery we made came from my own self, not her directly telling me what was wrong. She prompted introspection that helped me to have deep realizations and healing moments with myself. Thus strengthening my relationship and trust with myself. She is an amazing guide in this way.” - J, 1:1 Client
Every session and set of sessions is different, but some practices/techniques we might explore together are:
Mindfulness exercises
Sense-based activities
Movement
Inner Child Work/Parts Work
Ancestral Connection/Intergenerational Patterns
Awareness Expansion
Grief Work / Play and Joy Work
and anything else that organically comes up that feels supportive.
Your journey is entirely and uniquely your own. We will figure out how to support it at your own pace.
My intention is that by the time people finish working with me, they feel supported in their transition, feel their room for growth, have created more space for their experiences, and have more of an ability to work with them.
“I’ve a long history of sexual and physical abuse that translated into finding myself in gaslit scenarios over and over. I’ve been in traditional therapy since age 15 and I must say that Stevie’s gift for helping me acknowledge my growth, giving my body solid tools and honoring my experiences have vastly outweighed any hour in therapy. Stevie is a gifted healer who reaches far beyond the veil in their sessions. We are so fortunate to have them here with us now.” - ISLÆWAE- 1:1 Client
Structure
I work with clients on a weekly or bi-weekly basis and each session runs for 60 minutes. You might know right away how often you’d like to see each other or we can figure it out together during our initial consult call. I ask that new clients commit to working together for at least six months- most of my clients stay with me for a year or a year and a half. This kind of work goes deep so I encourage clients to give it the space needed for transformation to unfold. It’s definitely a commitment! A financial one for you and an emotional one for both of us.
Pricing
I offer a small sliding scale for sessions: $150-$200/session. If you’re not familiar with sliding scale models, you can give this a read (The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice by Alexis J. Cunningfolk).
Another way to break it down is like this:
$150 is the low end of the scale and is for you if you’re having to budget to make these sessions work.
$175 is the “true cost” of a session based on my level of experience, education, and years in the field.
$200 is the high end of the scale and is for you if you have generational wealth, live comfortably and are able to make big purchases or take vacations with ease, and/or have financial support systems easily available to you. This price point helps to make the lower price point possible!
I won’t ask about your finances and trust clients to make their own decisions about what they can afford.
How to Start
Click the Book a Call button below to book a consult call with me! We’ll chat for 20 minutes about what you’re seeking and see if we’re a good fit for each other. I won’t try to sell you on working with me and I deeply believe that this work shows up at the right time for people. If we do decide we’d like to work together, I’ll send you a follow up email with my availability, contract, and payment details.
After that, we’ll book our first session together and our journey will begin!
“I am new to somatic and trauma tending work and I appreciated how tuned in Stevie was to my verbal and non verbal cues and how she gave me tools in breath and body to move through and not around negative and intense emotions. Stevie validated my experiences and worked with me to be able to tend to and embrace emotions that arises after our sessions.” - Emily, 1:1 Client
“Stevie Leigh is an amazing practitioner and I highly recommend working with them. I am generally very careful about the healing practitioners I work with, as many I have encountered encourage emotional and spiritual bypassing and are not trauma informed. I also shy away from traditional psycho therapies because of my particular spiritual sensitivities which historically have not been taken into account in those environments. I absolutely prefer Stevie’s methods of healing. They are extremely trauma informed, body literate and highly educated in the healing modalities they works with. As well, their intuitive hits are always spot on.” - Amy, 1:1 Client
FAQ
Do you have room in your schedule now?
My books are currently full, but I’ll be opening up my schedule in late October/early November.
Do you offer one-off sessions?
Yes I do! I definitely recommend long form work but I offer one-off sessions to returning clients and people looking to get their feet wet.
Are you seeing people in-person?
For now I’m only offering virtual sessions. It’s likely that in the future I will offer both, but for now things are online only. If that feels iffy for you, we can talk about that in your consult call- virtual work can be very effective when done right.
When is the next time you’re opening up your books?
It’s hard to predict when my schedule will open up, but it usually opens up around the Spring and the Fall.
Do you offer sliding scale?
I offer a sliding scale of $150-$200/session for clients who sign up to work with me long term. One-off sessions are $200 flat. I have a few low-cost slots but they are currently filled up.
I’m not ready to work together like this yet, what else do you offer?
I offer a somatic awareness course RETURN that I’m currently reformatting into a self-study program. And you can always sign up for my newsletter to be the first to know when new offerings, workshops, or classes roll out.
❊I am a queer person who supports all expressions of gender❊
❊Non-monog/kink/sex-worker/mad/spoonie friendly❊
❊Though my work is therapeutic, it is not psychotherapy and isn’t a substitution for psychotherapy if that’s what you’re in need of❊
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