Recovered from ME/CFS and fibromyalgia after eight years unable to work
Practitioner profile
Simon Pimenta
MindBody Reconnect Practitioner
Long-standing hypnotherapist, coach and trainer supporting people with chronic health conditions to build resilience through mind-body approaches and nervous system regulation.
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Key experience and focus areas
Hypnotherapist, coach, and trainer with twenty years of related practice
Has worked with everyone from children to professionals in top law firms
Full profile
A fuller view of Simon’s background, training, and approach
Meet Simon
I previously worked in a demanding role as Director of a Housing Trust. When my health collapsed, I went off sick and remained unable to work for the next eight years.
At times I could not walk for even a minute and was spending as much as eighteen hours a day in bed.
I eventually discovered mind-body approaches that helped me to recover from ME/CFS and fibromyalgia. That recovery shaped the next stage of my working life.
From recovery to supporting others
I retrained as a hypnotherapist, coach, and trainer and have spent twenty years supporting people with similar struggles.
Becoming a MindBody Reconnect practitioner transformed my approach even further and gave me a new framework for helping people with chronic health conditions.
I have worked with a wide range of people, from children through to lawyers in leading law firms.
I strongly believe that people have the ability to access their inner resources in ways that help them become healthier, happier, and better able to move toward their goals.
Sessions and fees
Hourly rate: £100
Reduced rates available for block bookings.
Concessionary places available — please enquire for details.
TESTIMONIAL
A client’s experience
Working with Simon marked my pivot from my darkest winter into spring. I went from feeling mostly lost and confused in my struggle with Long Covid to feeling safe, clear, and on a healing path.
And safety and clarity are EVERYTHING when it comes to coaxing an overly sensitive nervous system back to balance.
I have learned how to gently expand my activities, of course, but I’ve also learned how to bathe myself in the kind of compassion I once felt was IMPOSSIBLE.
This self-compassion has in turn allowed me to set boundaries in my life in new ways. He has brought a sense of ease, of elasticity, of spaciousness into my life — and he has done it with so much humour and the best kind of irreverence.
Session by session, Simon teaches me the most important skill anyone can learn in this life: how to trust and honour myself. And with these changes come leaps in functionality.
I am completely re-engaged in my life again, instead of watching it from the sidelines.