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 recovery? Not in any mystical sense, but in the precise neurological sense. The brain is plastic. Mental practice activates real motor networks. These are not beliefs — they are findings, replicated across hundreds of studies.
This site brings together the quality-of-life research, a free guided imagery programme built from the evidence, and a hands-free harmonica course for people with tetraplegia. 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 a spinal cord injury 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 quieter, personal way in — for anything that feels too personal to work through alone, including bladder and bowel management, spasticity, hand and grasp function, or intimacy and sexual sensation after injury, as examples. Just the two of us, at your pace.
These sessions are personal support for living well after spinal cord injury. They are not a medical treatment, and they are not a promise of physical recovery — the same honest framing that runs through the whole programme. They sit alongside your clinical and rehabilitation team, never in place of it.
If pain is part of your picture, we go carefully. The research is honest that imagery can unsettle neuropathic pain for a small number of people, so it's something we watch for together, and stopping or changing course is always a real option.
- Settling into a regular rhythm with the core practices
- Choosing which of the five practices fit where you are right now
- Adapting the imagery so it feels true to your body, not borrowed
- Working through the ordinary blocks: impatience, discomfort, the sense that nothing is happening
- Learning to notice and use the three daily windows the programme describes
- Being guided through a full practice live, at your own pace
Koha is a Māori custom of voluntary giving: you give what feels right to you, in response to what you've received.
There's no set price here, and no suggested amount. Give what feels right, give what you can, or give nothing at all — that's genuinely fine, and no one will ever know the difference. These sessions and the free practices on this site are offered the same way either way.