About Me — so glad we’ve crossed paths

Hi, I’m Susan, a personal and interpersonal development coach and integrative somatic practitioner, completing an MS in Applied Neuroscience. I work where contemplative philosophy and neuroscience meet, with somatic work as the place the two become something you can feel. Underneath it all, the work is building the capacity to be present with your experience as it is, without being flooded by the past or caught in watching yourself, so something truer can emerge.

Over time my work has narrowed to what I find most meaningful and most misunderstood in. The nervous system is where body, feeling, language, and mind meet, and lasting change reaches all of them with your sense of self at the core. This is the work of becoming more fully yourself, which means changing the patterns that keep you from it.

This work is also deeply personal for me. I know firsthand the experiences of disconnection and chronic pain, and I meet each person with the presence and care I once needed myself.

Accompanying people and families through the dying process as an end of life doula and hospice volunteer is where I have refined and learned the most about what this work actually asks. Our mortality is where presence, letting go, and transformation are most demanded of us, and it has shaped everything about my approach.

I hold a deep respect for the complexity and potential of what it means to be human, and I’m committed to supporting others in inhabiting themselves fully to live from the inside out. I live in NYC, I'm active in political and social depolarization work, and I love long walks, morning sun, and exercising my will.

I'm glad you're here.

—Susan Reis