About Me — Welcome
So glad we’ve crossed paths!
Susan Reis
Integrative Somatic Trauma Practitioner,
Certified Hypnotist, Psychosynthesis Guide
Rooted in contemplative depth and grounded in neuroscience, my work helps transform unconscious material into lasting change through body-heart-mind coherence.
Initially a meditation teacher, I came to somatic practice through the belief that true healing is a slow, natural return to the body and present moment, where unconscious material is met with compassion and stillness arises naturally, not by force.
My approach integrates somatic depth, timeless contemplative wisdom, and the grounding of neuroscience and neuroplastic change. I attune to the pre-verbal unconscious seed patterns first imprinted in the body, from our earliest beginnings to inherited intergenerational echoes, where the ineffable roots of our experience quietly shape the inner world and become more activated at various stages of life.
My work is rooted in contemplation and also deeply personal. 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 weave the personal, relational, and transpersonal. Through a relational lens, we can transform attachment patterns and connect more intimately with ourselves, others, and life. Through transpersonal integration, healing expands beyond just endless cycles of fixing into a renewed sense of meaning.
My integrative approach helps unravel defenses and fears, softening the body and shedding layers that cover the true self. My approach isn’t about fixing (you’re not broken!) but about presence: being with your inner experience. The modalities are resources, but the path is your unfolding.
The split between psychology and spirituality has left psychology without depth and spirituality without grounding. My work seeks to restore these alignments and offer a new path of transformation: the way is in the mysteries of the heart.
I live in New York City, I don’t belong to any one group, method, or tradition, and I’d be honored to support you on your journey.
-Susan Reis
Certifications & Trainings
MS in Applied Neuroscience (in process)
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 (SEP) Practitioner-in-Training
Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experiencing (DARe) Practitioner-in-Training
Certified Buteyko Breathing Instructor
Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
Certified Primordial Sound Meditation Teacher
Contemplative Practice teacher (non-dogmatic Christian Mysticism rooted presence and spiritual practice)
Nejang Healing Yoga Teacher (non-dogmatic Tibetan Vajrayana practice of subtle energy-channel aligned somatic movement and breath)
Graduate Certificate in Jungian Studies & Analytical Psychology (Pacifica)
Archetypal & Evolutionary Astrologer
Death Doula
Hospice & Grief Volunteer
NOVA Crisis Response Trained & Volunteer
ICISF Individual & Group Crisis Intervention Trained
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 adapt to you and your present moment experience. I prioritize being present with you and what arises, rather than seeking to endlessly fix. It’s never the modality that heals but compassionate presence. 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 licensed talk 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
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 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.
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
