What I Offer: An Alternative & Integrative Path to Real Transformation
I offer focused sessions as well as integrative sessions which also tend to emerge organically overtime. Each path I offer is tailored to the unique needs and intentions of the client, but all of my work is rooted in my philosophy: that healing emerges through the wisdom of compassionate presence, and must be relational, somatic (physiological), and consciousness-expanding. Across sessions, the various threads I use often weave together, blending somatics in its purest and rawest form, relational attunement, contemplative depth, and subtle states of awareness that open the door to deep inner transformation.
This is not a formula that I use nor just a series of steps to follow but is an exploratory felt process where the client’s body leads, emotions are felt and metabolized in waves, and the psyche begins to reveal its own memories, truths and profound inner insights. The nervous system is gently invited out of survival and into connection naturally as balance is restored. The attachment system begins to soften, re-pattern, and trust. What arises is not imposed or instructed, but remembered, reclaimed, and re-integrated from the inside out.
Somatic Trauma Resolution
I offer a body-based approach that supports nervous system regulation, emotional processing, and the unwinding of survival patterns held deep in the body. By attuning to somatic intelligence, we can access healing that lives beneath words and return to a sense of safety, presence, and wholeness. My work draws on principles from neuroscience and polyvagal theory while resting on the foundation of mindfulness and presence, all to support the creation of new patterns for regulation, expression, and self-trust. Emotions and memories are expressed and experienced physiologically, through the body, and thus this is the vehicle in which we can resolve them or otherwise.
Breathwork
Breath is one of the most direct pathways to the nervous system, and to the places within us that words alone can’t always reach. I work with three types of breathwork, all with very different approaches and intentions, but in my reference to it as a standalone modality this refers to trauma release breathwork. My version of this work is not about force or performance, but about learning to listen to the body’s rhythms. Somatic breathwork can support the unwinding of held physical tension, the movement of long-silenced emotion, and a reconnection with your body’s natural intelligence. Whether used to ground, to feel, or to let go, the breath becomes both anchor and guide in the healing process.
Both hypnosis and breathwork have been shown in neuroscience research to access similar brain states as psychedelics, offering profound shifts in awareness and healing, but without the potential side effects. When combined with somatic-based practices, as in my approach, these states tend to integrate more deeply and sustainably.
Hypnosis
A guided, altered state of awareness that gently accesses the subconscious mind to support clarity, inner transformation, and integration. It is a deeply receptive space where limiting beliefs and the cognitive mind can soften, new insights arise, and dormant inner resources become accessible. Hypnosis creates a bridge between conscious intention and unconscious material, allowing space for healing, re-patterning, and alignment with deeper truths. Hypnosis works with relaxed brain states, like theta, that allow for deeper access to memory, imagery, and belief systems ready for change. My hypnosis, like most of my work, is integrative as I merge somatic techniques into the process to truly ground change into the nervous system and into the body.
Psychosynthesis Coaching
Psychosynthesis is a holistic, spiritually oriented approach to depth psychology that integrates parts work, personal will, and inner wisdom to support healing, wholeness, and self-actualization. It’s at the heart of all of my work and the philosophy behind how I guide others through transformation. This approach helps clients move beyond limiting patterns, reconnect with deeper values, and consciously grow into a more meaningful and integrated life. Healing isn’t just about the past; it’s about filling that space with purpose and becoming who you’re truly meant to be.
Psychosynthesis views the self as made up of many parts or subpersonalities. Through disidentification and integration, we shift from being unconsciously led by any one part to inhabiting a deeper center of awareness. Predating Internal Family Systems (IFS Therapy) by decades, psychosynthesis laid the groundwork for modern parts-based interventions, while placing greater emphasis on synthesis rather than segmentation, and on unifying the self rather than managing or categorizing it. This helps create an expanded and secure sense of self - a strong antidote to insecure attachment trauma.
By weaving modern psychology with contemplative timeless wisdom, psychosynthesis brings the body, mind, and heart into coherence, supporting lasting change, intuitive self-guidance, and a return to a sense of wholeness. It is my strong belief that modern western psychology is slowly making its way to the framework that psychosynthesis created a century ago, but was dismissed for its spiritual integration.
Brainspotting
A focused, mindful-awareness method that locates and processes trauma or repressed emotions stored in the brain and body by accessing deep healing through the visual field and felt sense. This powerful yet gentle approach allows the healing process to emerge organically, often bypassing mental defenses and reaching the root of unprocessed emotions. By anchoring attention to a precise eye position connected to the stored experience (a “brainspot”), clients can stay resourced in the present while moving through unresolved material with safety, support, and co-regulation. Brainspotting supports integration by working with the subcortical brain, which governs instinct and survival responses, allowing healing to emerge from the body’s wisdom.
Relational Dynamics & Attachment Repair
Focused attention on how early imprints shape current patterns with ourselves, others, and life itself, and how we can open space for new ways of connecting and being. This work invites us to gently explore the roots of disconnection or misconnection, regulate attachment wounding, and repair what has been fragmented. Through presence, compassion, co-regulation, and curiosity, we begin to form more authentic, nourishing relationships, including the most important one we have - the one with ourselves. This work is rooted in truth, trust, and belonging and, for me, is the root of all trauma or repressed emotions. A relational lens is applied in all of my work but becomes more explicit and direct as we work through your specific goals.
Archetypal and Evolutionary Astrology
Astrology is a mirror of the self’s unfolding that illuminates mythic patterns, inner archetypes, and evolutionary themes to support deeper understanding and growth. My astrology reading sessions help clients recognize the deeper currents of their lives and step into a more intentional, intuitive, and heart-aligned path. While I typically keep astrology as separate and standalone work, it may occasionally be integrated when appropriate for clients who resonate with it and used as a sacred tool for reflection, inquiry, awareness, and inspiration (to tell the story of our hero’s journey), not as prediction, identity, or “karma.” Astrology is meant to help liberate you, not keep you stuck, and offers a symbolic map that can gently reconnect us with something larger than just ourselves.
Meditation and Contemplation
Meditation, to me, is an invitation to return to the quiet intelligence within: not to escape the moment, but to more fully inhabit it. I don’t offer these presence-based and contemplative practices as techniques to master, but as a sacred space for embodied contemplation, compassionate presence, and subtle inner listening. Rooted in the expansion of consciousness rather than performance, this work honors stillness as a gateway to insight, coherence, and heart-rooted truth. Over time, it helps soften internal defenses, regulate the nervous system, and deepen the capacity to meet life from a place of spacious awareness, integrity, and trust in one’s own inner rhythm. The refuge we’re all seeking is the loving presence at our core, in our mind and bodies, not in an institution or dogmatic interpretation.
Death and Transition Doula Support
I offer this work with reverence, tenderness, and deep listening. As an end-of-life or death doula, I provide emotional and spiritual guidance for those moving through death and anticipating a personal ending. Rooted in compassionate presence and companionship, I support individuals in NY through these thresholds, whether that means tending to end-of-life processes, holding vigil, sitting alongside someone as they anticipate loss of self, and walking alongside someone as they enter and cross into the mysteries. I offer non-judgement regardless of past or faith and will proudly be taking many secrets with me to the grave. My intention is not to fix or rescue, but to witness, to hold, and to be with. The end-of-life experience offers the greatest opportunity for healing. Let go with dignity, cross with a friend, and enter into the mysteries with grace.
Grief Tending
I offer a gentle, sacred space for grief that centers presence, care, and the wisdom of feeling rather than fixing. Unlike clinical models that pathologize or categorize grief, this work honors it as a natural, honest and compassionately present response to loss. Through shared reflection, personally resonant ritual, and deep listening, I welcome grief in all its forms. I support emotional and spiritual expression without judgment or urgency, helping individuals walk with grief instead of around it and reconnect to the quiet aliveness it often carries.
Dreamwork
I approach dreams as living messages from the psyche, felt more than figured out. Rather than interpreting them through a Jungian lens, which can sometimes lean too heavily on analysis, I engage dreams more like somatic experiences: through sensation, emotional tone, pattern recognition, and inner insight. My approach aligns more closely with ancient and folk traditions. In Italian folk culture, for example, dreams were not “interpreted” but listened to—shared with family or a village elder who could help attune to their wisdom through story, ritual, or embodied response. The deeper the soruce of an experience, the less it is meant to be cognitively understood and the more it is meant to be felt. Dreams open a natural gateway to the unconscious, and when met with this curiosity, they can be powerful companions in one’s unfolding and serve as reflections from the nervous system.
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Susan Reis
