
Integrative Hypnosis
Hypnosis is a natural, focused state, similar to flow state, where the mind becomes highly receptive to suggestion and transformation. In this state, the brain enters a rhythm that supports neuroplasticity, our innate ability to rewire thought patterns, emotional responses, and behaviors.
I think of hypnosis as mindfulness of the subconscious. Rather than forcing from the surface, we gently access the deeper layers of the mind, the ones that quietly shape most of our daily choices, and introduce new pathways for change and growth.
In our sessions, we’ll use the hypnotic state to work from the root. I blend personalized suggestion, metaphor, guided imagination, somatic anchoring, and natural language techniques to help change take hold both in the nervous system and the subconscious.
You’ll also learn self-hypnosis tools and re-programming techniques from me so you can continue to build inner skillfulness and repattern from within, long after our sessions.
Your subconscious drives most of your life. Hypnosis helps you drive it consciously.
What can hypnosis help with?
Repatterning limiting beliefs
Confidence and self-empowerment
Smoking cessation and other addictions, cravings, or compulsive behaviors
Anxiety, stress, and emotional overwhelm
Fears and phobias
Sleep issues and insomnia
Habit change—breaking old patterns or building new ones
Inner child healing and parts work (including integration of fragmented parts i.e. Psychosynthesis)
Age regression to resolve unresolved past responses stored in the nervous system
Pain management (where medically appropriate)
Performance enhancement (public speaking, creative flow, athletic performance)
Gaining clarity, insight, or inner guidance around major decisions
Hypnosis FAQ
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Your brain is always changing. Even while you sleep, it’s rewiring, reconfiguring, and building new connections. When you recall a memory, practice a new skill, or shift your focus in a new direction, you’re participating in this living, responsive process—what neuroscience calls neuroplasticity.
My Integrative Hypnosis gives you a way to engage with this process consciously.
These sessions aren’t about mind control or quick fixes; they’re about harnessing the natural capacity of your brain to reorganize itself. Through a relaxed, highly focused state of awareness, hypnosis helps quiet the analytical mind and bring your deeper, more intuitive intelligence online. In this state, you can begin to rewire the stuck patterns, beliefs, or nervous system responses that may have once helped you survive but are no longer serving your life now.
Hypnosis has been shown in modern research to support a wide range of physical, emotional, and behavioral concerns from chronic pain and anxiety management to phobias, habits, and more. But this practice is far from new. Long before modern studies, hypnosis and trance-based healing was already being practiced around the world, from the healing temples of Asklepios in Ancient Greece & Rome to indigenous and spiritual traditions across continents.
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Hypnosis is a naturally occurring state of mind, you could say similar to a flow state or the few minutes of space between sleeping and waking. Hypnosis is a form of meditative trance that accesses your deep subconscious layers for real change. This importantly means that you are still fully aware and conscious during hypnosis. You always remain in control.
Whether online or in-person, you’ll sit (not lay down) comfortably in a chair with your head back and your feet on the floor below you.
Otherwise, you’ll only need a true willingness to want to make the change.
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Yes. Hypnosis is a natural, focused state of awareness that you’re in full control of. It’s similar to a flow state where we lose track of time and access our peak performance.
It’s not mind control but is a form of subconscious meditation or focused awareness. You remain fully awake, in full conscious control throughout.
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This isn’t one-size-fits-all hypnosis nor is it a magic cure gimmick. What makes this approach unique is the depth, precision, and integration behind it.
I combine both Ericksonian (indirect, conversational) and directive forms of hypnosis depending on what’s most effective for your system. I don’t use scripts. Every session is customized based on your individual needs, your nervous system, and how your subconscious is wired.
I begin by identifying your primary sensory processing style (VAK: visual, auditory, kinesthetic) so that the suggestions are delivered in a way that your mind naturally receives best. I also work with you to uncover the deeper root of the craving or compulsion, so the suggestions aren’t just surface level but carefully crafted for your unique patterns and inner motivations.
Sessions also integrate my somatic tools and nervous system techniques to help the change ground into the body, where real transformation happens.
I also combine mindfulness, breathwork, and presence-based practices to help create the most receptive internal state for neuroplasticity and long-term change.
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Start by booking a free 20-minute call to learn more, see if it’s a good fit, and schedule a session from there.
My hypnosis sessions are online over Zoom from anywhere in the world or offered in-person in New York, NY. NYC in-person bookings have a higher rate than those online for the studio space.
Like all my work, hypnosis is equally effective in either setting, you just need to properly have your video setup for visibility and a chair where your back is supported, and both hands and legs can rest on something (you should not be laying down).
Meet your hypnotist
About Susan Reis
I’m glad we’ve crossed paths. I use presence-based methods that get to the root of healing, like hypnosis and somatic work. Hypnosis is a gentle yet powerful way to support emotional, physical, and behavioral change by working directly with the subconscious mind and the body’s innate capacity to rewire.
I’m a Certified Hypnotist and weave in a range of integrative tools to meet each person where they are with care, precision, and respect for your unique process. In these sessions, this includes:
ericksonian hypnosis
directive hypnosis
parts work and integration (psychosynthesis)
somatic techniques to anchor change in the nervous system
transpersonal psychology, including guided journeys, active imagination, and meditative states
mindfulness and breathwork as portals to neuroplastic change