Penelope Ryder. Council Member, Complimentary and Natural Healthcare, Clinical Hypnotherapist.
After many years of searching through books and different therapies for how to heal my traumatised inner landscape, I found how to do it with Nick. He showed me how we run on imagination and awareness not so much on thinking and talking about these painful things. This held the key to healing what once felt unbearable and unhealable. I carry this with deep gratitude.
A sufferer from Parkinson’s disease
I am 73 and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2020. My wife suggested some form of therapy might help but I poo pooed that idea curtly. I had standard treatment and medication for two years which helped but some aspects of my condition continued to deteriorate particularly swallowing, talking fatigue and problems with my right arm which interfered with my music making, which I love. I suffered from a pretty constant acute anxiety and my whole attitude to life started to diminish as, concerned about my situation, I began to close in on myself.
I had three sessions and a couple of zooms with Nick and he showed me a whole new approach to my dis-ease. Generally this included learning how to become more aware of the stresses and stressed energy in the body and importantly how to attend to it and release it. Internal vizualisations of the images of my “inside” world and the location of my symptoms were really helpful in learning to see what was really going on inside me. Most importantly learning the conscious deep breathing exercises I did every day to get at the underlying stress that had built up over a lifetime and release it. Nick believed the underlying stress brought about by an excessive desire to control everything lay behind the whole condition. I am beginning to see this may be true.
Im happy to say its working. By learning to release the tight stressed muscles around my throat and neck my swallowing and talking has improved. I have been able to start proper walking again and best of all my music making has become possible again. Of course its a long journey but it’s a wonderful start, in such a short space of time and at 73 I can face life again with renewed energy, less anxiety and hope.
Testimonials
Julian Tomkins. Gestalt Therapist and Psychotherapist
Nick Pearson’s Imaginal Therapy places the imagination, the image and visualisation at the heart of his practice and above dialogue. I have been inspired by his work and use his model, I think my clients would say i am a better therapist for it.
Dr Nara Nairi
I am a medical doctor, pharmacist and micro nutritionist.
I was referred to Nick by my London GP following a very difficult time in my life which included virulent court proceedings from a deeply painful divorce, bilateral breast cancer mastectomy and treatment. All this of course not unconnected.
The techniques used by Nick had a tremendous impact on my path to total recovery. Visualization of the breasts being the key to a changed relationship to my dis-ease as well as reconnection with repressed parts of my emotional world. This deep image led connection with my physical and mental nature restored my confidence and above all made me FEEL better. Something that does not always happen with medication.
A year or so later I was diagnosed with a serious case of fibroids in the uterus. Three large fibroids one at 7cm as large as the uterus itself. Immediate surgical intervention and total removal of the uterus by one of the best gynecologists in Paris was offered as the only way to deal with this. I postponed that decision and went back to Nick and we jointly devised a strategy to work with the uterus again with visualizations of the fibroids themselves, deep relaxing breath exercises aimed at releasing the huge tension I was carrying in that part of the body, all induced by stress.
A year later no surgery and I am totally clear of all fibroids. I now know that stress caused this condition and our strategy of deep relaxation exercises and visualization was wholly effective in allowing the condition to subside.
As a doctor I now know the medical hormonal mechanics behind these dis-eases of the sex organs but the root remains stress in all its forms and we all need homemade strategies for coping with this as well as good doctoring.
Sinéad
Nick taught me in two sessions with his Imaginal Therapy this profound way of being with myself and learning to deal with the incredible images inside me. I will continue with it for sure. I know this is lifelong task but now I feel I have some space , and, my god, some embodied awareness, not just the intellectual kind. I feel real tenderness for myself. Thank you, thank you, thank you
A sufferer from breast cancer
When I was first diagnosed with cancer I felt completely overwhelmed, fearful and lost. The “C” word had shaken my world and placed a deep pit of anxiety in my belly. Talking with Nick changed much of that at our first meeting.
Through a visualisation of the tumour in my breast I was able to meet my cancer directly and begin to relate to its energy and unwelcome reality and wonder why it was there, what it represented and what response it needed from me. It was not difficult to begin to understand how my life and life style had to change and how I had given myself such a hard time and been so blind, for years. This empowered me to make the necessary changes.
By putting me directly visually in touch with the cancer Nick helped me to face my fear, not only of the actual cancer, but of the fear of death which was buried in there along with the cancer. Once I had made progress with the exercises for doing this, I felt so much calmer.
The tumour was removed by surgery, I had some relatively minimal treatment and I know its not coming back. I can honestly say the whole experience has been life changing for the better.
X, who had had no menstrual cycle for 3.5 years
Just a quick note to say another thank you for all your help. I’m now on my third healthy cycle since coming to see you. Its world class, a life changing experience. I love the relaxation audio clips you made up for me.