“Embodiment teaches us about the power of resilience and the human heart to learn from our mistakes and align with our innermost truth, urging us to engage with life more fully so we can delight in this human experience.”
― Alison Litchfield
REGULATED & CONNECTED → STRESSED / OVEREXTENDED → OVERWHELMED → TRAUMA RESPONSE → PERSISTENT PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS
Support regulation anywhere along this continuum—not only after trauma has occurred.
Services
Our team offers a range of mental and behavioral health services to support individuals, children, and couples in their goals for healing, growth, and well-being. Explore our providers and services by selecting the options below.
Whether you're ready to begin making meaningful change or simply want to take the first step by asking questions about the support we provide, we're here to help.
Jessica Stuart, MS, LCPC, SEP
Finding the Right Support
You’re welcome to reach out to me directly as the owner and lead clinician of Somatic Therapy. I’m happy to hear a little about what you’re looking for, answer questions, and help connect you with the person on our team who may be the best fit.
You can also explore the categories of services below. Each will show you the clinicians who offer that particular area of support, and you’re welcome to connect with them directly.
However you choose to begin, we’re here to help. Finding the right support can sometimes feel layered or overwhelming, and you don’t have to figure it all out on your own. We’re happy to help you find your way into the right place.
406-548-5908
stuart.maitri@yahoo.com
Somatic Therapy
Nervous System Regulation
Yoga and Mindfulness
Families and Children
Supervision and Education
Trauma Recovery and Transformation
Care Navigation
Change Doesn't Just Happen in the "Mind"
We often think of change as something that happens through insight—understanding why we feel the way we do, recognizing patterns, and learning new ways of thinking. Those things can be important. But they are only part of the picture.
Our bodies are participating in our experience all the time. Our nervous system is continually taking in information, responding to our environment, and influencing how we experience emotion, stress, relationships, and connection—often before we are consciously aware of it. Many cultures and healing traditions have understood this relationship between mind and body through out time. Today, decades of neuroscience research have given us additional ways of understanding this connection and the important role our bodies and nervous systems play in how we move through the world.
At our practice, a somatic lens and an understanding of embodiment are foundational to the work we provide. We keep our practice small and intentional so we can bring together highly trained clinicians who offer thoughtful, individualized care. While each therapist brings their own experience, training, and way of working, we share a belief that meaningful change involves the whole person.
Our clinicians will work more experientially through embodiment, nervous system awareness, and present-moment experience, as well as work to identify practical tools, skill-building, and everyday application.
Our work may support you in:
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Becoming more aware of your body's signals and patterns
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Understanding your responses to stress, emotion, and relationships
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Developing practical skills for regulation and navigating difficult moments
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Creating more capacity for connection, rest, pleasure, and engagement
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Making changes that feel meaningful not only in therapy, but in everyday life
Somatic therapy isn't simply about feeling calm or learning to regulate your nervous system. It is a way of understanding the whole person—and creating space for change that can be felt, practiced, and carried with you into the rest of your life.
Common Queries
Do you offer sliding scale rates?
Yes, we are able to offer a sliding fee scale. Please feel free to contact us to ask about details.
How long does each therapy session take?
A typical session is 55 minutes, although we offer up to 2-hour sessions dependent upon need and agreements made.
Are you a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner?
Yes, Jessica Stuart is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, she has completed hundreds of hours of training, on-going consultation, and participated in her own personal sessions to more fully understand the healing power of this work. She also assist new students in their learning of Somatic Experiencing at professional trainings and by offering internship positions.
What is the fee rate for a 55 session?
Fee rates are typically set by insurance companies and range between 160$-200$. We charge $165 for those paying out of pocket.
For the Curious (and the Therapy Nerds)
**More to come soon**
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing® is a gentle, body-oriented approach to healing trauma and the lasting impacts of stress. Somatic Experiencing® views trauma as the body’s overwhelming response to perceived life threat. Trauma can result from a single event like a car accident, injury, assault or from the cumulative stress of experiences such as neglect, chronic abuse, loss, and systemic oppression. Symptoms of trauma can manifest in many ways including anxiety, depression, disconnection, interpersonal struggles, and isolation. When working somatically, we work slowly and break experience into small, manageable steps that do not overwhelm the nervous system. We track imagery, body sensation, movement, emotion and beliefs to help you move through energy in the body that has becomes stuck from traumatic events. In finding resolution to past stressors, we can find greater well-being and more resiliency to not only deal with future stressors but also to live more fully in the present moment.
To learn more about Somatic Experiencing Please visit: traumahealing.org
Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT)
What is PACT? Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy, PACT, was designed by Dr. Stan Tatkin, a neuropsychologist and attachment therapist. His best-selling books Wired for Love, Wired for Dating, and Your Brain on Love talk about how we relate to one another on a deeper level, motivated by love rather than distress. We each develop a style of attachment from a very young age, and this style impacts how we related to ourselves, the world around us, and most importantly, our partners. There is no style that is necessarily good or bad, yet conflict can arise when we are trying to meet our own needs and each others needs in a way that is "pro-self" rather than "pro-relationship." Please view Stan's video introduction to PACT therapy to learn more.
What happens in a PACT Session?
In a PACT therapy session, my role is to support both members of the couple by paying very close attention to how they are responding to one another. Often when we are in distress we can give off cues to our needs of needing comfort, space, and understanding, but if our partner is also in distress they can miss these opportunities for support. I aid in helping both partners see what is happening for one another so that they can choose to support one another and reinforce the loving couple-bubble so they can then focus on the external stressors that partners often fight about - work, sex, money, kids, time, and mess.
How is PACT Therapy different that other couple's therapy?
The PACT model is unique in that it allows us to drop deep into the areas of the brain where early mis-attunements, trauma, and thought distortions about the self and others are stored. By accessing these areas as they are showing up in your relationship today we can allow the pattern to shift, to do something different, and move toward secure-functioning. In doing this, the feelings of threat and distress can decrease, working to resolve patterns that existed long before your partner came into your life.
