About Me — so glad we’ve crossed paths

I’m a somatic practitioner, psychosynthesis coach, and meditation teacher based in New York City, completing an MS in Applied Neuroscience. My background is rooted in contemplative perspectives, and somatic work became a natural evolution because they are, at their core, the same work: building the capacity for presence and meeting what stands in the way of it.

Over time my work has narrowed to what I find most meaningful and most misunderstood in the somatic field: developmental wounding, where the self never fully formed but organized instead around protection. This is distinct from shock trauma, and requires a different approach entirely. The work is about building the capacity to be with our own experience and inner world, so something truer can finally emerge.

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

I have long been an end-of-life companion and hospice volunteer, accompanying people and families through the dying process: it is where emotions cannot be managed away, where compassionate presence is the only thing that remains, and where I have learned the most about what this work actually asks. It has shaped everything about my approach.

Through this, I have come to center a heart‑focused approach that is lived and embodied over inherited: the capacity to turn inward and meet our own depths with honesty and compassion. This inward turn is, paradoxically, what softens the boundaries of the isolated self and reconnects us more deeply with ourselves, others, and life itself.

I hold a deep respect for the complexity and potential of what it means to be human, and I love supporting others in building the capacity for presence, inhabiting themselves fully, and living from the inside out.

I'm glad you're here.

—Susan Reis