Meet Susan
Integrative Somatic Trauma Practitioner,
Psychosynthesis Guide, and more
I support transformation at the personal, relational, and spiritual levels through compassionate presence, embodied resilience, and contemplative self-healing that reharmonizes internal systems and restores connection to self, others, and life itself.
See this blog post for a summary.
Welcome, so glad we crossed paths
The Cyclical Seed is my ex-voto of sorts.
I integrate somatic healing and the wisdom of spiritual psychology to help you navigate the human experience with grace and to self-transform. Spirituality and psychology are meant to be the same, but both have gone astray.
My journey into this work is deeply personal and rooted in contemplation, My time with those at the end of life has also meaningfully shaped my understanding of healing and being - of what it means to fully live, and to let something fully go. I know firsthand the patterns of disconnection, chronic pain, and freeze, and I meet each person with the compassion and presence I once yearned for.
I’m endlessly learning-you’ll find my training below-but I value wisdom and philosophy over rigid frameworks. Healing isn’t about fixing (you’re not broken) nor simply following steps. It’s about presence (being with our inner experience), the heart of all spiritual wisdom and the foundation of my work. The tools are all just resources, but the true path is in the mystery of your own heart.
Everything I offer is rooted in contemplative self-healing and meant to gently shed the layers that cover the heart and reveal the authentic self.
I weave the personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal, emphasizing inner insight as well as working with how we relate through attachment patterns. Through this relational lens, we can transform deep pre-verbal binds and connect more intimately with ourselves, others, and life itself.
It’s in entering into your own mysteries you source unbreakable will. Everything else is just a band-aid.
I don't belong to any specific group or tradition, I live in NYC, The Cyclical Seed is alternative by design, and I’d be honored to support you on your journey.
-Susan Reis
Certifications, Trainings, & Experience
Certified Integrative Somatic Trauma Practitioner
Certified Hypnotist (NGH)
Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System Certified Practitioner (BBTRS)
Compassion-Based Resilience Training Certified Instructor (Nalanda Institute)
Brainspotting Practitioner (BS)
Certified Psychosynthesis Life Coach
Somatic Experiencing (SE) Practitioner-in-Training
Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experiencing (DARe) Practitioner-in-Training
Certified Buteyko Breathing Instructor
Contemplative Practice teacher (non-dogmatic Christian Mysticism presence and spiritual practice)
Nejang Healing Yoga Practitioner-in-Training (Vajrayana Buddhist Tantric somatic practice)
Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
Certified Primordial Sound Meditation Teacher
Reiki Practitioner & other energy healing
Graduate Certificate in Jungian Studies & Analytical Psychology (Pacifica)
Archetypal & Evolutionary Astrologer
Death Doula & Hospice Volunteer
NOVA Crisis Response Trained & Volunteer
Values
Individuation
Individuation, de-conditioning, and self-responsibility are essential to true transformation—not by becoming someone else, but by returning to who you’ve always been beneath the layers. I believe in deep self-acceptance and learning to trust your own organic path of becoming. Individuation means shedding the protective identities we’ve adopted, and in doing so, reclaiming the agency and inner authority rather than from patterns of reactivity or victimhood.
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 and adapt to you and your present moment experience. I prioritize being present with you and what arises, rather than seeking to endlessly fix. 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 contemplative self-healing and the timeless spiritual wisdom of presence and healing. I’m not a therapist. 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 always let you know with transparency and care if my work isn’t the best fit or out of my scope.
Mysticism as a Healing Art 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! It’s the story of the hero’s journey and the archetypal experience of us reconnecting with ourselves.
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 art of peeling back the layers over the spiritual heart to align with the true self and loving presence at its core.
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
