Jesse is a Reiki Master trained in the Usui Shiki Ryoho System of Natural Healing by her teacher Nana C. Deleplanque of the NYC Reiki Institute.

She was initiated as a Reiki Master in May 2025 and has been practicing reiki since March 2023. She also is a Therapeutic Sound Practitioner practicing since 2014, and a Grief Support Coach, practicing since 2017. Her signature offering combines these modalities and your sessions can be tailored to fit your particular needs. ♥️

Jesse is able to offer both in-person and distance sessions to clients.

She will be teaching First Degree in NYC this summer, and Second Degree in the fall. Send a message if you’d like to be informed when classes are available!

Jesse is a member of The Reiki Alliance.

ABOUT REIKI

Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki is a Japanese method of light hands-on healing in which concentrated energy is used to support and balance mind and body functions. Reiki is not an energy transfer between client and practitioner. Instead, a reiki session helps to boost the client’s own personal power, helping them to enter more deeply into homeostasis, enabling the body to tackle physical ailments, heal tissues, process vitamins and medications, and build the immune system. Reiki also helps to balance emotions, support healthy sleep, regulate the nervous system, and navigate the turbulent waves of grief and trauma.

Distance reiki sessions can be offered for people, animals, homes, land, businesses, or deceased persons.

Reiki was developed in the early 1900s by Dr. Mikao Usui in Kyoto, Japan.

Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki: ‘Usui System of Natural Healing.’

Reiki: ‘Universal Energy.’

Rei: Universal

Ki: Energy/Chi/Prana/Vital Life Force 

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS FOR IN-PERSON SESSIONS IN NEW YORK:

“I was initially skeptical about Reiki, as it seemed somewhat abstract—but my sessions with Jesse were nothing short of transformative! From the moment I entered her beautiful, healing space, I felt safe and deeply comforted by her warm, nurturing, maternal presence. During our sessions, I reached a level of relaxation I’ve never known—like I was being gently carried to another dimension where everything felt still and whole. It was pure consciousness. Jesse helped ease the physical pain from a bad fall I recently had and lifted emotional weight I was holding from lifelong wounds. Distance sessions were just as palpable, causing me to sleep soundly when I otherwise struggle with sleep troubles. She helped me reconnect with a part of myself that I had lost, and I was so happy to find that peace again. Jesse truly has a gift for healing and is able to access a kind of divine force of serenity. I’m grateful for her and the way she holds space with such compassion and care. She will go on to help many on their paths.” - Jessie A.

“Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had the pleasure of having my first ever reiki sessions done by Jesse Paris Smith. Not too long before these sessions I had recently made the decision to quit smoking. With the withdrawal of nicotine came many side effects such as anxiety, muscle tension and even a lack of sleep. In my first session I immediately noticed a change in my overall energy. Throughout the reiki I felt a sense that my mind was at ease and was surprised how fast I was able to relax and drift off into my own consciousness. Later that same day I noticed how much better I had slept and even noticed an overall change in my entire mood. It was like my entire outlook had begun to feel more positive and my muscle tension felt more at ease. It has been a pleasure doing these sessions with Jesse as I feel doing reiki has helped during a time of my life where I really needed support and am grateful for how it has helped me with getting back on my feet.” - Coulee S.

“Thank you again for all your tender support and care and kindness and nurturing today! You were really there for me and it means so much. You are an incredible reiki practitioner. I can’t believe the level of peace I was able to find today.”

“It is difficult to put into words because I am not sure such words exist. My mind, nervous system and body have really never been in such a calm state.  I felt your loving and nurturing energy through my entirety. I’ve really never known a feeling of safety in my body and have been in a fight or flight state since I was such a small child. I’m a cloud. I’ve never known calm like this.”

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS FOR DISTANCE SESSIONS:

Client Located in Australia:

“Thank you so much for the session and your mindful distance healing on me. I really felt the compassionate care, especially around my shoulders, lungs, and heart. The forest imagery was so soothing. The imagery you used for the sessions were calming, and I definitely felt the peaceful energy physically and mentally. I love the way you send a detailed vision of your analysis. Thank you again for all the love and care you put into the session. I’m so grateful for your healing energy.” - Tenzin C.

Client Located in NYC, USA:

“Thank you so much for taking care of me. It means a lot to me and I appreciate you. I had a very restorative rest. I slept deep and long during the night, something I couldn’t do in the past days. Also I feel so much better today, have less congestion, I recovered smell and I taste food. My dreams were very vivid and beautiful! Definitely you are a very special healer. Thank you so much! - Gabriela G.

Client Located in London, England:

“Jesse very kindly took me on for a long distance reiki. What she told me was really profound. It was as if she was reading my mind and knew my past wounds and traumas with subtle cues with each session. I have taken aboard all her advice and I really look forward to future sessions.” - William W.

Client Located in California, USA:

“Jesse conducted three magical Reiki distance sessions with me and each time it awakened new energies and was therapeutically beneficial. Before the sessions Jesse asked what I would like to work on or if there were specific parts of my body that needed healing. I have a blood disorder that has caused a lot of issues on other organs in my body so I asked her to focus on kidneys and liver. I am also having a pain issue in my left foot for a year and also wanted to have that worked on. Not only is Jesse compassionate and very empathetic, her communication is accordingly thorough and for me, deeply spiritual. I am forever grateful.

The second session took place while I was outside. I was relaxing down by the creek, taking photographs, and focused on the dancing shadows moving on the trunk of an oak tree and the light reflections from the small creek waterfall. I knew immediately that the shadows and light were healing energy being sent from Jesse. I let my mind and heart open more this time- which is always easier to do when you are near water. The session was very calming and relaxing to me And brought me so much joy.
Jesse wrote later, “For the mind, I focused on reminding you that the world needs your voice, your love, and your art.”
In that moment , watching nature’s light show, and the sound of a waterfall, I felt that love energy and the universality that we all share when we create and bring beauty to the Earth.
The third session I was sleeping and Jesse was able to sense that and the mind dreams I was having.

During all of my sessions Jesse also worked on my liver and kidneys, both problematic organs due to my blood disorder. I awoke feeling reinvigorated and felt a deep sense of happiness. It was a great session for me to explore after using representative Jungian concepts the more I read Jesse’s session notes to me. 

I hope to continue sessions with Jesse and would recommend her to everyone who is open to Reiki and able to accept universal energy healing and exploration. Jesse is supportive, communicative, and most of all is a kind loving soul with the ability to trust and explore the life energy we all share and communicate with.” - Robert B.

Client Located in NYC:

“First of all- thank you for spending the time. Second of all- thank you for helping me. It really worked. Indeed forces were calming me and guiding me and those forces were you. I am in awe.” - Nicholas L.

“Just for today do not anger. Honor your parents, teachers and elders. Earn your living honestly. Show gratitude to everything.” - Dr. Mikao Usui

COMPLETED CERTIFICATION TRAININGS:

Reiki Master Training, NYC Reiki Institute, 2025

Reiki Levels I and II, NYC Reiki Institute, 2023 and 2024

Integrative Thanatology, End of Life and Death Education, 120 hours, The Art of Dying Institute, 2021

Certified Creative Grief Support Coach, Creative Grief Studio, 2018

Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, Grief Recovery Method, 2017

Integrative Practices of Therapeutic Music and Sound, 190 hours, The Sound and Music Institute (SMI), 2014

COMPLETED PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE TRAINING and CONTINUING EDUCATION:

Addressing the Trauma of Suicide and Overdose Loss: Meaning-focused Therapeutic Techniques - ADEC, 2024

Grief During the Holidays - The Dougy Center, 2024

Fundamentals of Attachment Styles - Dr. Diane Poole Heller, 2023

Childhood Anxiety: Helping Children Heal - Institute of Child Psychology, 2023

Working with Complex Trauma: Untangling Somatic Wounds - Dr. Peter A. Levine, 2023

Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing - Somatic Experiencing International, 2023

Wellness Coaching Certificate - Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, 2022

Supporting Children, Teens, and Young Adults - The Dougy Center, 2022

Essentials of Thanatology - Dr. Darcy Harris, 2019

ADEC Professional Development, Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC), 2019-2023 (Ongoing)

Fundamentals of Narrative Therapy Practices - Vancouver School of Narrative Therapy, 2019

Performance Wellness Practitioner Training - Dr. Louise Montello, 2014