The Cyclical Seed
Meet Susan
Somatic & Attachment Trauma Practitioner,
Psychosynthesis Coach, Astrologer, Death Doula
I work with those who seek to grow or transform personally, relationally, and spiritually. I focus on presence, repatterning the nervous system, and creating secure attachment with ourselves, others, and to life itself.
The Cyclical Seed is my ex-voto of sorts.
I integrate somatic healing and spiritual psychology to help you navigate the human experience with grace and to self-transform.
My journey into this work is deeply personal—my own spirituality has always been my teacher, shaping not only my approach but my understanding of what it means to fully live. I know firsthand the patterns of avoidance, chronic pain. and the frozen states we can carry, and I meet each person with the compassion and presence that I once yearned.
Spirituality and psychology are meant to be one and the same, but both have gone awry. Through an approach that synthesizes the mind, body, heart, and spirit, I help you return to wholeness, offering tools for transformation and graceful resilience for the depths of being human.
I’m endlessly learning—you’ll find my trainings below—but I value wisdom over rigid frameworks. Healing isn’t about fixing or simply following steps; it’s about presence, contemplation, and the inner experience of feeling. The tools are all just resources to get there, but healing is in the wonders of the authentic heart.
I believe in the coherence of the whole to grow, not just all the parts but all the dimensions of us, integrating the personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal, working with how we relate through the attachment patterns that repeat within and without. Through this relational lens, we can transform deep binds and can connect with ourselves, others, and all of life.
The temple door is narrow, but it's in entering into your own mysteries you become unbreakable. Everything else is just a band-aid.
I don't belong to any specific group or tradition, I live in NYC, I come from a spiritual perspective and am not a therapist, The Cyclical Seed is alternative by design, and I’d be honored to support you on your journey.
-Susan Reis
Certifications, Trainings,
& Experience
Certified Psychosynthesis Life Coach
Brainspotting Trained
Certified Integrative Trauma Practitioner
Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System Trained
Somatic Experiencing (SE) Practitioner-in-Training
Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experiencing (DARe) Practitioner-in-Training
Compassion-Based Resilience Training Certified Instructor (Nalanda Institute)
Certified Buteyko Breathing Instructor (corrective breath)
Nejang Healing Yoga Teacher-in-Training (Vajrayana/Buddhist Tantric somatic practice)
Christian Contemplation teacher (non-dogmatic Christian Mysticism presence and spiritual practice)
Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Certified Primordial Sound Meditation Teacher
Reiki Practitioner & other energy healing approaches
Graduate Certificate in Jungian Studies & Analytical Psychology (Pacifica)
Death Doula & Hospice Volunteer (end-of-life emotional and spiritual care)
NOVA Crisis Response Team Trained & Volunteer
Values
Individuation
Individuation, de-conditioning, and self-responsibility are necessities to personal growth or transformation. This does not mean changing who you are. I believe in real self-acceptance and learning to trust your own natural evolution in life. To individuate is about removing layers of identity we pick up as compensation or defense. This is the foundation for self-agency and will, and only from there can we make our own meaning in life.
Not Just Healing, but Being
I don't want to get you stuck in a cycle of endlessly fixing and healing, which is far too common in the holistic space. And I’m not in the therapy space, so I certainly don’t want to pathologize every quark about you. I want to get you to a place out of the endless need to fix or to be someone, so you can just be, unfolding who you are in real time.
Compassionate Presence
I don’t just follow one modality or framework and claim it will heal you. I integrate a variety of tools so I can rely on my intuition in the present moment when working with you. Compassionate presence is how we heal and transform anything and is the foundation of my work philosophy (and life!). I prioritize compassionate presence and resilience.
Integrity
I offer alternative services as a psychosynthesis and somatic practitioner, and my foundation is mysticism and contemplative self-healing. I’m not a therapist. As such, I don’t report to an organization but I take my care for clients seriously so am continuously learning and implement my own best practices and ethics which you can ask me about. I will let you know if my work isn’t the best fit or out of my scope. I’m also not “a healer;” the true Self is.
Astrology & Mysticism as Healing Arts Again, not another Compulsion
The zodiac is the wheel of life. It's the seed pattern of subjective awareness, and I offer it as a tool to coherently navigate the cyclical patterning of our minds and emotional bodies, for self-discovery, and to connect to a larger cosmic whole - I don't want to just get you obsessed with astrology!
Compulsiveness, future fixing, and overly simplistic understandings of self are the antithesis of healing, spirituality, and what a true understanding of astrology reveals, as well as a true connection to mysticism: the unknowing.
Mysticism has been teaching the art of presence, resilience, surrender, and expanded consciousness to self-heal long before the modern accepted approaches. Every therapeutic approach or neuroscience finding of meaning has earlier roots in mysticism or contemplative self-healing.
The past and conditioned experiences imprint on our mind, body, and soul/psyche, leaving us spinning around a wheel losing parts of us along the way, lost to moments of time, but through heart-mind coherence, compassionate presence, and wisdom, we can reclaim our soulfulness and self-unfold whole, with a lightness of being and heaviness of purpose.
For everything & always,
Susan Reis
