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Psychologist · 90-min online sessions · EN / RU / JP

End the reaction you keep repeating. Usually in the first 90 minutes.1

I'm Ivan — a psychologist in Japan. In one call I find the exact pattern behind a conflict you keep having, an avoidance you can't explain, or an anxiety that keeps returning — and we shift it at the root.

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

"I thought it would take years. After the 1st session I felt relief; after the 2nd, like I had reset." Alena · fitness instructor — "years of work," resolved in 2 sessions

Kuzushi — balance-breaking

Two centimeters. That's the whole method.

A structure in balance won't be pushed over by force. Move the one point — two centimeters — and the whole thing falls. 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.

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 2014 · Progress Psychology since 2023

Body

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

Trained since 2013 · rehabilitation centre 2014

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.

"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 — fitness instructor, Russia · "years of work" resolved in 2 sessions1

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Years in psychology
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Years Bujinkan · Chiba dojo
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Languages · EN RU JP

"I kept replaying the session in my head on the train home — three days straight. Then I actually executed."

Kaori · Tokyo → career shift in 2 weeks

"6 hours. That's all it took to resolve 10 years of problems. The answer was within me all along."

Brandon · engineer, Singapore

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

Fania · Russia

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

Erina · Tokyo → psychosomatic pain resolved

The Mirror Test — try it now

Think of the anime character who irritates you most.

Not dislike — irritates. The one whose scenes you can't skip, even when you want to.

That reaction isn't about them.

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

You are not watching anime. Anime is watching you repeat.

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.

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

Free diagnostic

Not ready to book? Start with the quiz.

1,500+ anime characters mapped to 8 psychological functions and 10 life spheres. It shows you which characters mirror your reactions — and why they won't let go.

Take the free quiz

See. Shift. Root.

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

The Immersion

$6,000
by application · multi-day · in Japan2

The deepest, fastest route — a root pattern taken apart at the source, body and mind together, in person.

  • Everything in The Root
  • In-person intensive — dojo + body work
  • Daily direct access
  • Lifetime quarterly check-ins
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The Root

$1,500
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
  • Body-mind day in Japan
  • Result guarantee3
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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 + character match
  • Summary after each session
  • Weekly check-in + support
  • Workbook, roadmap, free follow-up
Start the program

Everything included. Nothing upsold later.

The Seeing

$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
  • Anime character match
  • Check-in a week later
Book The Seeing

Prefer to pay per session? You're welcome to — $100 each. The Shift is the same fee for four; what it adds is the structure around the work: intake, summaries, check-ins, support between sessions, the workbook, and the follow-up. Same cost — more holding.

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.

I take a small number of new clients each month, so the work stays close and unhurried.

Find your recurring reaction in 20 minutes.

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

Check your email for the workbook.

Your email is only used to send the workbook. No spam.

This is not for everyone. If you want someone to fix you while you sit back, this won't work — I guide, you do the seeing and the shifting. If you have a clinical diagnosis, please see a doctor first. I'm a psychologist-practitioner, not a psychiatrist.

I'm Ivan Nisuda

仁守多 · humanity · protect · much — my Japanese name, given to me here

I moved to Japan 9 years ago with no backup plan. I've spent my life learning martial arts, gentle manual therapy, and psychology.

My sensei says — "Don't show — make them feel." That's how I run sessions.

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

Explore the character database
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"

"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. Most clients feel meaningful clarity in the first session.
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.