Meet Susan
Somatic & Attachment Trauma Practitioner,
Psycho-spiritual Coach
I support others through personal, relational, and spiritual transformation, emphasizing, compassionate presence and resilience, contemplative self-healing, and reconnection to self for deeper intimacy with other and with life.
Welcome, so glad we crossed paths
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. Spirituality and psychology are meant to be the same, but both have gone awry. I emphasize body, mind, heart, and spirit integration.
My journey into this work is deeply personal and rooted in contemplation — my own spirituality as well as working with those at the end of life have been my greatest teachers, shaping my understanding of healing and being (what it means to fully live and to let something fully die). I know firsthand the patterns of avoidance, chronic pain, and freeze and I meet each person with the compassion and presence that I once yearned.
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 essence of my work. The tools are all just resources to get there, but the way is in the wonders of the authentic heart. Everything I offer is rooted in contemplative self-healing and meant to shed the layers that cover our heart or our true selves.
I integrate the personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal, emphasizing inner insight as well as working with the attachment patterns that repeat within and without. Through this relational lens, we can transform binds and connect more deeply with ourselves, others in relationship, and the whole we’re all a part of.
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, 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
Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System Certified Practitioner
Certified Integrative Somatic Trauma Practitioner
Certified Hypnotist
Compassion-Based Resilience Training Certified Instructor (Nalanda Institute)
Brainspotting Practitioner (BS)
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)
Death Doula & Hospice Volunteer
NOVA Crisis Response 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 align with our authentic heart.
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 mysticism and contemplative self-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 let you know 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!
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 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
