Contact + FAQs
Get in touch with any questions or inquiries by sending a direct message here or emailing me at susanreis@thecyclicalseed.com.
In-person work is available for select days in Midtown Manhattan at Lex & 55th.
Looking forward to connecting!
Susan Reis
FAQs — the Practicalities
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Session Exchange:
Single Online — $200
Single In-person — $285
Effective January 202612-Sessions Online — $2222
12-Sessions In-Person — $3150
Effective January 2026
Session exchanges can be securely paid directly through my website via PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, credit, or debit. There are no additional processing fees on your end.
Please note: These rates do not include:
Group or couples private sessions (breathwork/meditation/hypnosis)
End-of-life support (always free, reach out to discuss)
Astrology consults
Customized integrative containers
Private group events or workshops
Donation-based courses
A portion of my hours every week is dedicated to unpaid work supporting individuals at the end of life and those navigating grief or crisis through various organizations. Your paid sessions help sustain this work and allow me to continue offering care where it’s most needed.
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I do not accept insurance, and insurance also does not cover somatic or holistic modalities. My work is non-medical and non-diagnostic, oriented toward personal growth rather than symptom treatment.
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All offerings, including individual sessions, workshops, and courses, are final sale. Services are non-refundable.
Appointments may be rescheduled with at least 24 hours’ notice. Sessions canceled or rescheduled with less than 24 hours’ notice, as well as missed appointments (no-shows), are charged in full.
This policy aligns with the terms outlined in the signed intake and waiver agreement.
Thank you for your care and understanding.
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Sessions are available online via live Zoom from anywhere in the world, or in-person in Midtown Manhattan, NYC. In-person sessions are offered on select days with limited availability.
This work is effective in either setting, though in-person sessions carry an additional fee. Private groups, couples, and events are also available in-person in NYC so feel free to get in touch and I'd be happy to discuss.
Please Note: For the months of February and March 2026, sessions are available online only. In-person sessions in Midtown will resume in April. Thank you for your understanding!
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There's no set number; every process is as unique as you, and the depth of change reflects how the work is engaged with, committed to, and integrated into daily life. This work isn't something done to you but something you actively engage with.
Working directly with the nervous system and unconscious material, clients often notice meaningful change sooner than with traditional approaches. That said, genuine transformation around trauma, attachment, or developmental patterns is not a short-term process.
Weekly sessions and your own commitment support the continuity and momentum that allows the work to deepen. I offer a 12-session package as a starting commitment at a discounted rate which for those looking for deeper work is often a foundation rather than a complete arc.
This work is not designed to create dependency but to strengthen your inner resources. You are always free to start, pause, or return at any time. -
I take my care for clients seriously and implement my own best practices, ethics, and client confidentiality. All personal information shared in our work together is kept private and I do not maintain session notes with client personal information beyond the initial client intake form which is stored securely. You’re welcome to ask me about my approach to ethics or confidentiality at any time.
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Your use of this website indicates your understanding of the following: The information and resources contained on this website are for informational purposes only and are not intended to assess, diagnose, or treat any medical and/or mental health condition.
FAQs — the Philosophical
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My ideal client is someone who has already done some form of inner work, and senses that something deeper remains untouched. They may understand their patterns intellectually but feel them continuing to run beneath that understanding. They are not looking for symptom relief, quick fixes, coping strategies, or for someone to do something to them but for something more fundamental: a genuine shift in how they inhabit themselves and meet life.
They may be in an active period of healing, or they may be in a growth-oriented phase, feeling called toward a more integrated, authentic, and expansive way of living. Often both are true at once, and the work moves between them naturally.
What unites my clients is a genuine willingness to meet their inner world with honesty and care. This work asks something of you. It is subtle, relational, developmental, and contemplative by design. If you are looking for that quality of depth, you are likely in the right place.
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Somatic nervous system work engages how experience lives in the body and nervous system, not just the thinking mind. When experiences overwhelm our capacity to process them, the system organizes around protection rather than presence. Through bottom-up, felt experience, the nervous system can complete what was interrupted and reorganize from the inside out, restoring safety, coherence, and choice.
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Somatic work is often reduced to exercises, a series of breathing practices, or dramatic emotional release, while nervous system work is framed as quick fixes or hacks. That’s not how lasting change happens.
My work prioritizes bottom-up nervous system reorganization by first creating the conditions of safety, trust, and felt awareness that allow unfinished survival and emotional responses to complete naturally.
I integrate developmental and top-down work, particularly as capacity builds, to support consolidation and integration. Drawing on psychosynthesis, growth-focused coaching, and my neuroplasticity-aligned SEEED framework (Sense, Equalize, Express, Embody, Distribute), changes become integrated into identity, boundaries, choice, and daily life.
My contemplative roots support depth with unconscious material, while my nervous system training prioritizes precision, safety, and care.
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I am not a licensed therapist and work from a different model. I am a certified somatic practitioner, meditation teacher, and psychosynthesis coach. My approach is somatic, developmental, relational, and contemplative, and does not involve diagnosis or medical treatment.
This work operates from a different model, beginning bottom-up, engaging sensation, emotion, and the autonomic nervous system, and integrating developmental and psychosynthesis-informed work as capacity builds, so that changes are lived. Rather than therapeutic or behavioral correction, the focus is on creating the internal conditions for the system to reorganize itself and to grow forward, inspired by the future.
Most clients find their way here after other paths that have offered support in different ways. Sessions are responsive and individualized, and I will always communicate transparently if this approach is not the right fit.
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Trauma is not a pathology, but an adaptive survival response.
When experiences overwhelm our capacity to process them, the nervous system organizes around protection rather than presence. Healing trauma means restoring safety so unfinished responses can complete, allowing regulation, connection, and choice to return.
Not everyone has experienced explicit trauma. Similar protective patterns can also form through unresolved emotion, developmental adaptation, relational imprinting, and the shaping of identity over time, often outside conscious awareness. And not everyone who comes to this work identifies with trauma at all, many arrive from a growth-oriented place and find that these same implicit patterns, shaped by development, identity, and experience, are what limit their next layer of expansion.
For this reason, my work does not separate trauma resolution from developmental integration. As nervous system safety is restored and unfinished responses complete, presence, agency, and authentic expression emerge naturally.
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Psychosynthesis is a spiritually grounded depth psychology that views us as whole beings made of many soul parts, each with its own voice, need, or history. It predates Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS) by several decades, but takes a more integrative approach: rather than endlessly fragmenting into parts, the aim is more deeply to synthesize them in service of the deeper Self. What makes psychosynthesis unique is that it weaves together both shadow work—meeting the messy, wounded aspects of our past—with transpersonal integration, inspiration, and future-oriented goals. This balance allows for true healing and transformation, because we’re not just processing pain, but also aligning with meaning, higher ideals, and the authentic wholeness at the core of who we are. Even as modern therapy seeks to adopt this work of synthesizing the psyche’s parts (“parts work”) it’s not possible without transpersonal integration.
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Everything. True healing is a natural, human process rooted in spiritual wisdom and philosophy, long before therapy or treatment protocols existed. It’s not about fixing; it’s about remembering who you are beneath the layers of survival and defense.
Trauma, including unprocessed emotions, disrupts our life force and severs us from our authentic self. At its core, trauma is often a loss of meaning, a spiritual crisis. Healing restores that meaning through compassionate presence and alignment with the will of your heart.
Importantly, spirituality is not a means of escapism, future fixing, dogma, nor compulsivity. Spirituality, to me, is you connecting to your heart’s will. That’s the way.