Work with Jeremy

I am Jeremy. I hold a Masters of Social Sciences majoring in Psychology from Waikato University, New Zealand. My graduate research — conducted at Deakin University in Melbourne under Professor Robert Cummins — examined what helps people not merely survive serious disability, but flourish. I also hold a Diploma of Solution-Oriented Hypnosis.

Over two decades of work in rehabilitation, imagery, and wellbeing, the question I keep returning to is this: what is the mind's role in living well with a progressive condition? Not in any mystical sense, but in the precise neurological sense. The brain stays capable of change. Mental practice activates real motor networks. These are not beliefs — they are findings, replicated across hundreds of studies.

This site brings together the research on guided imagery for Parkinson's, and a free programme built from that evidence. Nothing here is a substitute for clinical care. What it offers is a complement — a practice you can carry into the spaces between therapy sessions, into the morning before you rise, and into the quiet before sleep. I don't have Parkinson's myself, and I don't claim the authority of lived experience — this site grows out of my research training and my work in the Ericksonian therapeutic tradition, offered in good faith and openly labelled as a personal synthesis.

"The practices are designed to be used alone. But the first weeks can be the hardest, and having someone to work through them with can be the thing that helps you keep going."

The self-directed programme stays free. The audio, the scripts, the reading behind it all — none of that changes. What I offer here is different: my time, one to one, for anyone who wants a more personal way in, offered on koha.

Jeremy, developer of the Guided Imagery Programme

These sessions are a conversation, not a guided practice — the practices themselves are already free on the site, any time you want them. What this offers instead is a space to talk it through: how the practice is going, what's helping and what isn't, and anything that feels too personal to work through alone.

Often that turns out to be the quieter, harder side of Parkinson's — the embarrassment that comes with continence or swallowing changes, going silent in a group because repeating yourself is exhausting, the slow withdrawal from conversations you used to enjoy, or what a changing body means for closeness and intimacy. These are the things people tell me they don't raise at appointments. Just the two of us, at your pace.

These sessions are personal support for living well with Parkinson's. They are not a medical treatment, and they are not a promise of symptom relief — the same honest framing that runs through the whole programme. They sit alongside your Parkinson's team, never in place of it.

One boundary is worth stating plainly, because it matters. These conversations are about the emotional and social weight of living with symptoms — not treatment for the symptoms themselves. A soft or unclear voice has a proven treatment in LSVT LOUD, delivered by a speech-language therapist. Swallowing difficulty needs proper assessment by one too, and shouldn't wait. Continence changes belong with your Parkinson's nurse or a continence service. If something you bring to a session belongs with one of them, I'll say so and point you there — and I'd rather do that than have you talk it through with me instead of getting it seen to. It's the same reason this site offers no guided imagery practice for speech at all.

• Talking through how the practice is landing, and settling into a rhythm that fits your life
• Choosing which of the five practices fit where you are right now
• Working through the ordinary blocks: impatience, discomfort, the sense that nothing is happening
• Making sense of what you're noticing as you go
• Learning to notice and use the daily rest windows the programme describes
• Space for anything that feels too personal to raise elsewhere