Psychological counselor · 90-min online sessions · EN / RU / JP

The thing that's been running your life stops being the biggest thing in it.

I'm Ivan, a psychological counselor in Japan. In one call I find the exact pattern behind the reaction you keep repeating — and we start shifting it at the root.

Name it in 90 minutes — or you don't pay.

Online · from $100 · English, Russian, or Japanese

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"6 hours. That's all it took to resolve 10 years of problems. The answer was within me all along."
Brandon · 10 years, resolved in 6 hours
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I went into this keen to solve my problems, but what happened completely betrayed my expectations…

6h. That's all it took to resolve 10 long years of problems.

Ivan didn't just help me resolve my problems — he guided me to it, and made me realise for myself that the answer was within me all along.

Try taking a free call with Ivan. He's friendly, patient, and you feel naturally recharged just talking to him!

Eighty coordinates. One is yours.

崩し Kuzushi — balance-breaking

Two centimeters. That's the whole principle.

A structure in balance won't be pushed over by force. Move the one point — two centimeters — and the whole thing follows. In the body, in movement, and in you.

Three disciplines. One law.

Don't force the outcome — find the exact point, apply the smallest precise touch. If the same law holds in all three, it isn't a trick.

心

Psychology

Progress Psychology. Eight functions, ten spheres of interaction with reality. The right question surfaces the reaction you can't see alone — because you're inside it.

Diploma 2015 · Progress Psychology since 2023
体

Body

Cranio-integrative techniques, massage, osteopathy. Not forcing the body — listening for where it already wants to go.

Trained since 2013 · rehabilitation centre 2014
動

Movement

Bujinkan martial arts in Chiba. Two centimeters of difference in hand position — the gap between nothing happening and everything changing.

18 years training · instructor license

How this differs from talk therapy or CBT: most therapy applies general techniques to you. Progress Psychology maps where exactly you're stuck — which of the 8 functions4 in which of the 10 spheres — and works that intersection. Not a toolkit. A coordinate.

Eighty coordinates. The first session finds which one is yours.

A grid of eight psychological functions by ten life spheres, eighty coordinates in total. Example highlighted: the Emotional function in the sphere of Others.

Emotion × Others — for example

12+
Years in psychology
18
Years in Bujinkan
3
Languages · EN RU JP
"I thought my case was severe and would take years. After the first session I already felt relief. After the second, I felt like I had reset."
Alena — Russia · "years of work" reset in 2 sessions1
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My whole life was going sideways, and I couldn't achieve what I wanted purely because of my own inner fears — as banal as that sounds, and they really did turn out to be connected to childhood.

I came to Ivan, but honestly there was an inner contradiction: I thought my case was severe — heavier than anyone else's — and that I would need years of work.

Imagine my surprise when after the 1st session — in which, to be clear, we only worked out WHAT exactly was troubling me — I already felt relief. After the 2nd session it was as though I had been reset, and I could look at the situation calmly. Now it seems to me it was all nothing much.

Now I'll get used to the state and keep working on myself. Many thanks to Ivan!

Translated from Russian · Original

У меня вся жизнь шла наперекосяк, и не получалось добиваться всего, чего хочу, только из-за внутренних своих страхов — как бы не банально это звучало, но, как и действительно оказалось, связанных с детством.

Обратилась к Ивану, но было внутреннее такое противоречие, честно говоря: я думала, что у меня тяжёлый случай (тяжелее, чем у кого-либо) и со мной придётся работать годами.

Каким было моё удивление, когда после 1 сеанса — на котором, уточню, мы просто разбирали то, ЧТО именно меня беспокоит, — я уже почувствовала облегчение. После 2 сеанса я прям как будто обнулилась и стала спокойно смотреть на ситуацию; теперь мне кажется, что это была такая ерунда.

Теперь буду привыкать к состоянию и работать над собой дальше. Спасибо большое Ивану!

"I knew my ideal self — but only in my head. With Ivan's help I found what I needed to do, and actually executed it."

Kaori · Japan → from knowing to doing
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I was surprised that a person really can change. And I was glad that I had changed.

I knew the self I wanted to be. But I only pictured it in my head — I didn't know what to actually do to get closer to that ideal.

With Ivan's help I found what I needed to do in order to change, and I was able to carry it out.

Carrying it out is the difficult part. But in these sessions you start wanting to. You want to act, and it becomes exciting.

I'm grateful to Ivan for the good change. Thank you!

Translated from Japanese · Original

本当に変われるんだと驚いた。そして、変われた事が嬉しかった。

「こうありたい」理想の自分はわかっていた。でも、頭の中で思い描くだけで、実際に理想の自分に近づくために、どうしたら良いか、わからなかった。

イワンさんの手助けがあって、自分が変わるためにすべき事を見つけ、実行する事ができた。

実行するというのがなかなか難しくて。でも、このセッションでは実行したくなる。実行したくて、ワクワクしてくる。

良い変化が出来たこと、イワンさんに感謝です。ありがとうございました！

"He worked through a childhood pattern I hadn't named — the root of what kept repeating."

Fania · Russia
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Ivan took my problem apart. Clearly and concretely, he laid everything out in order.

He identified the events in my life that could have had an effect. He worked through a childhood trauma I had already forgotten, but which turned out to be the foundation of my problem.

He helped me build motivation and a new model of behaviour.

Ivan, you are a first-class specialist. You identify the cause of a problem quickly, and you build the most effective way to solve it.

Thank you — I'm very pleased with the work and with the result.

Translated from Russian · Original

Иван разобрал мою проблему. Чётко, конкретно разложил всё по полочкам.

Выявил события в моей жизни, которые могли повлиять. Проработал детскую травму, которую я уже забыла, но являлась базовой в моей проблеме.

Помог мне выстроить мотивацию и новую модель поведения.

Иван, вы высококлассный специалист. Быстро выявляете причину проблемы и выстраиваете самый эффективный способ решения.

Благодарю, я очень довольна проделанной работой и результатом.

"Unexplained stomach pain. Through his work I learned it was psychological. My symptoms improved."

Erina · Japan → psychosomatic pain resolved
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There was a period when I was troubled by stomach pain no one could explain. Through his work I came to understand that it was psychological.

I remember clearly how my symptoms improved as I answered Ivan's questions and faced myself.

I found it strange that it cleared up — this kind of work seems to run deeper than it looks.

If you're carrying something difficult, I think it's worth letting him help you.

Translated from Japanese · Original

得体の知れない腹痛に悩まされていた時期がありました。それが心理的なものだということを彼の心理療法によって知った経験があります。

それからイワンさんの質問に答えながら自分自身と向き合うことで症状が改善したことをよく覚えています。

どうして治ったのか不思議でしたが、心理療法とは奥が深いようです。

何か悩みを抱えているなら、彼に力を貸してもらうのが良いと思います。

"My view of the world, people, and myself has changed. No more irritability over small things, no resentment toward friends and family. I feel genuinely good and calm inside."

Alina · Russia → calm restored
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My view of the world, of people and of myself has changed. There's no irritability over trifles, no resentment toward friends and family. I feel genuinely good and calm inside, in a way I haven't for a long time.

Translated from Russian · Original

Изменился мой взгляд на мир, людей и себя саму. Нет раздражительности по пустякам, обид на друзей и близких. Мне по-настоящему хорошо и спокойно внутренне, как давно уже не было.

"It seemed so hard to even say what was wrong. My problems are still mine — but I see where and how to move."

Lena · Russia → direction after feeling stuck
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When do we go to a psychologist? At the moment when everything slips out of control and your hands drop. That's how it was for me.

I was looking for the person who would help me work it out. And in Ivan I found not just a competent specialist but someone it was a pleasure to talk to.

It seems so hard even to put into words what's wrong. But he was able to lead me onto the right path without ever pushing.

Just a few sessions — and it became easier! Yes, my problems are still mine, but I can see where and how to move! For which I thank Ivan from the heart.

Translated from Russian · Original

Когда мы идём к психологу? В тот момент, когда всё выходит из-под контроля и опускаются руки. Так было со мной.

Я искала того человека, который поможет разобраться. И нашла в лице Ивана не просто грамотного специалиста, но и приятного собеседника.

Кажется, так сложно сформулировать, что не так. А он смог ненавязчиво вывести на нужную тропинку.

Всего несколько сеансов — и мне стало легче! Да, мои проблемы по-прежнему мои, но я вижу, куда и как мне двигаться! За что сердечно благодарю Ивана!

The Mirror Test — try it now

Think of the person who irritates you most.

Not dislike — irritates. The one who gets under your skin in seconds, even when you'd rather not care.

That reaction usually isn't about them.

Something in you reacted before you decided to — a signal your body learned to reject long ago. They hold a piece of you. One you buried.

You are not seeing them. You are seeing what you buried.

That flicker you just felt? This page didn't describe the method — it ran it. Finding that signal and shifting it at the root is exactly what a session does.

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Three steps. No tricks — just your own reaction, observed.

Inside the ninety minutes.

No preparation, no intake form to fill in first. This is how the time actually runs.

0–20 min

What we're looking at

You talk, I ask. Most people arrive with a situation, not a pattern — we find which reaction is actually running underneath it.

20–70 min

Where it lives

We locate the exact coordinate — which of the eight functions, in which of the ten spheres. This is the part you can't do alone, because you're inside it.

70–90 min

One step out

A single concrete thing you test in real life before we speak again. You leave with the pattern named, in your own words.

Name. Shift. Root.

The first two centimeters of clarity come in session one. From there you choose how deep we take it.

The Naming

$100 one-time · 1 × 90 min

See — and feel — the reaction that's been running you. No commitment beyond it.

  • 90-minute session, online
  • 1-page written summary
  • Your coordinate — the sphere it lives in, the function it cuts off
  • Check-in a week later
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MOST PEOPLE START HERE

The Shift

$400 4 × 90 min · 4–6 weeks

Find the pattern, make the shift, lock it into real life.

  • Intake diagnostic
  • Summary after each session
  • Weekly check-in + support
  • Workbook analysis, roadmap, free follow-up
  • Session one decides — the rest refunded5
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Everything included. Nothing upsold later.

The Root

$1,000 scoped · 10 × 90 min · 3–4 months

For deep roots — trauma, decade-old loops, identity. Taken apart until it stops firing.

  • Everything in The Shift
  • Direct access for 8 months — up to 2 messages a week, answered within 1 business day
  • Emergency session scheduling
Result guarantee: if the pattern hasn't measurably shifted by session 6, we keep working at no additional cost until it does.
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I take four new clients a month, so the work stays close and unhurried.

The session price never changes — $100 every time. What changes is how many, and what's held around them. You can also pay session by session — $100 each. That's four sessions with nothing between them: no intake, no summaries, no check-ins, no workbook analysis, no follow-up. The Shift is the same money, held together.

Not sure which? Start with The Naming. Every tier begins with the same first 90 minutes.

In-person intensives in Japan — multi-day, by application, from $6,000.2 Ask about The Immersion

THE FIRST-SESSION PROMISE

If you can't name the reaction running you — in one sentence — the session is free.

After our first 90 minutes, if you can't put the exact reaction that's been repeating in your life into plain language, you don't pay. No questions, no follow-up. The first session is, above all, diagnostic — by the end, the pattern usually has a name.

Nothing to prepare. You don't need to know what's wrong before we start — finding that is the work. Clients join from Russia, Europe and Japan — we find a time that works from your city, not mine.

I take four new clients a month, so the work stays close and unhurried. When a month fills, the next opening is the following one.

Free diagnostic

Find your recurring reaction in 30 minutes.

A free 12-question workbook — surfaces the pattern and points to the sphere it lives in.

Check your email for the workbook.

Couldn't send just now — email ivan@nisuda.com and I'll send it to you directly.

Your email is used to send the workbook, then a few follow-up notes about the work. One-click unsubscribe in every one. How your data is handled.

If you watch anime as an adult, you've quietly filed it under "not serious."

It isn't. The characters you can't let go of are carrying your pattern. The free quiz reads your reactions against 1,500+ characters across 8 psychological functions and 10 life spheres — and shows you which ones mirror you, and why they won't let go.

Take the free quiz

This is not for everyone. If you want someone to fix you while you sit back, this won't work — the seeing is yours to do; I only find where to look. The work happens inside the 90 minutes; between them there's one small test, not homework. If you have a clinical diagnosis — or unexplained physical symptoms — please see a doctor first. I'm a psychological counselor, not a psychiatrist.

Ivan Nisuda — psychological counselor

I'm Ivan Nisuda

仁守多 · humanity · protect · much — my Japanese name

I moved to Japan in 2016 with no backup plan. I've spent my life learning martial arts, gentle manual therapy, and psychology.

My martial arts sensei says 「見せるな、感じさせろ」
"Don't show — make them feel." That's how I run sessions.

I train every week with my teacher in Chiba, write a book about his teachings, and map anime characters to psychology at animeprogress.com.

Find your character match
JUST WALK
17 Principles from an 80-Year-Old Ninja Engineer
17 chapters written — coming 2026
Ch 1 · Silent Teaching — "Don't think — sink!"
Ch 11 · Winning Without Fighting — "Let them run into your fist"
Ch 17 · Empty Hands — "Empty hands, full presence"
「簡単のものが不思議になったら、不思議のものが簡単になります」
"When simple things become mysterious, mysterious things become simple."

Questions? Answers.

Regular therapy often applies general techniques to you. Progress Psychology maps the exact coordinate where you're stuck — which of 8 functions in which of 10 spheres — and works that intersection. You see it, shift it, and test it in real life. The first session is diagnostic: if you can't name the reaction by the end of it, you don't pay.
Small issues — 1–2 sessions. Deeper patterns — 4–5. Trauma-rooted work may take longer. We don't stretch it beyond what's useful; you decide when you have enough progress.
English, Russian, and Japanese. Sessions run in whichever language gets closer to your pattern — sometimes that's the one you grew up thinking in.
If you have a clinical diagnosis (depression, bipolar, PTSD requiring medication), please see a doctor first. Progress Psychology can complement medical treatment, but it doesn't replace it.
Video call, 90 minutes. We clarify what's running in your situation — an automatic reaction, a self-image that no longer fits, or an unprocessed past experience — and design a concrete step you test in real life before the next session.
For deep-rooted patterns — trauma, decade-old loops, identity wounds — we work the pattern across emotional, somatic, cognitive, and behavioral channels until it stops firing. Not insight-talk. Not exposure therapy. A structured protocol, typically 4–7 of the 10 sessions in The Root tier.
Usually within 1–2 weeks of booking. If the month is full, I'll offer the next available slot — no waitlist game.

One session. Ninety minutes. If you don't name the reaction, you don't pay.

You don't have to decide everything today — only whether to look.

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