What You’ll Experience
Somatic therapy supports you to reconnect with your body, regulate your nervous system, and release emotional patterns held beneath conscious awareness.
Many people come to this work feeling overwhelmed, anxious, emotionally shut down, or disconnected from themselves.
Even when life looks stable on the outside, internally, it can feel like something isn’t quite right.
Somatic therapy helps you gently reconnect — restoring a sense of safety, calm, and inner stability.
This work allows healing to occur at the level of the nervous system, where lasting change becomes possible.
How Somatic Therapy Works
Your body holds the imprint of past experiences, stress, and emotional patterns.
When these remain unresolved, they can show up as:
• Anxiety or chronic stress
• Emotional overwhelm or numbness
• Feeling disconnected from yourself
• Difficulty relaxing
• Patterns you cannot seem to change
Somatic therapy works with the body directly — not just the mind.
Through guided awareness and gentle nervous system regulation, your body can begin to release held tension and restore its natural state of balance.
This allows you to feel more grounded, present, and at peace.
Benefits of Somatic Therapy
Clients often experience:
- Greater emotional calm and stability
- Reduced anxiety and overwhelm
- Improved connection with their body
- Increased clarity and self-trust
- Greater sense of inner peace
- Freedom from patterns that no longer serve them.
Over time, this work supports you to feel more fully yourself.
My Approach and what happens in a session
My work integrates trauma-informed somatic therapy with energetic awareness to support deep and lasting integration.
Each session is guided by your nervous system and your readiness. There is nothing you need to force.We work gently and safely, allowing your system to release and reorganise naturally.
This process supports not only emotional healing, but a deeper reconnection to your authentic self.
An in person sessions is run from a therapy room, where you sit comfortably and I sit across from you. If online you would need to be in a private place where your feel safe and comfortable.
It begins with a discussion on what you have been feeling, followed by a process where I guide you to finding a place of regulation and calm. From this place, we explore sensations that are triggering your nervous system, bring awareness to them and allowing them to shift, bringing greater calm and stabilty to your nervous system.
Somatic Therapy Sessions
60-Minute Sessions – Online or In Person
This work may be especially supportive if you:
• You feel disconnected from yourself
• You experience anxiety, overwhelm, or emotional numbness
• You have done personal growth but still feel stuck
• You want deeper healing beyond talk therapy
• You feel ready to reconnect to yourself
If you feel ready to reconnect to yourself, calm your nervous system, and experience greater inner peace, you are welcome to book a session.
This is a gentle, supportive, and confidential space for your healing.
How to book:
Alternatively, Erica is often with clients during her working hours, so please either txt Erica on +64 21 830 384 or email her at erica@ericaenergyweaver.nz.
Write: Your name and a brief explanation about what you would like somatic energy work for, your availability for appointments (general idea of days and times) and Erica will get back to you.
If you have been diagnosed with PTSD or CPTSD, are in active addiction it is important to first book the free 15 minute session as depending on the circumstances, I may require you to also be under the care of a mental health professional or GP.