“Myth is the foundation of life: it is the timeless pattern, the religious formula to which life shapes itself… Whereas in the life of mankind the mythical represents an early and primitive stage, in the life of an individual it represents a late and mature one.”
Simon Heathcote founded Soulvision in 2009 to integrate the soul into modern therapy after experiencing its absence at both personal and professional levels. Before that he had spent eight years at The Priory, Roehampton, specialising in the treatment of sex and love addiction helping clients find antidotes to their dis-ease through rediscovering their own innate creativity and spirituality.
After an integrative post-graduate counselling training in the early 1990s, Simon trained at Broadway Lodge (Britain's first specialist addiction treatment centre). He spent five years as psychotherapist with the award-winning Arrigo Programme, latterly as Senior Practitioner. Earlier, he had spent three years training in Deep Memory Process, exploring the impact of past lives on the psyche, although its founder Dr Roger Woolger died before Simon finished his training. He pursued his interest in other lifetimes through using a soul-based astrology, now incorporated into this process. Simon is a Visiting Practitioner at Kamalaya Koh Samui.
Simon has developed a unique way of working, drawing on Jungian concepts, mysticism and archetypal psychology to help return clients to their essence or deep soul. In the 1990s, he was one of the founding members of the men’s movement in the UK and had the privilege of learning from leaders in the field, including Robert Bly, Richard Olivier and the African chief Malidome Some´. An understanding of mythology and the hero’s journey is integral to this work. He is an initiated man with The Mankind Project and has been in personal recovery for more than 30 years.
“For the past 32 plus years, I have been working to heal myself from the samkaras or deep soul wounds I carried; for the past 24 years I have been working as a therapist, steadily refining my process and practise to provide a rare depth of understanding through a variety of methods. I want to thank all those whose testimonies of my work bear witness to the results.”
An award-winning writer, former newspaper editor, broadsheet travel writer, and published poet, he remains a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers. He underwent a profound inner journey of meditation which he brings to his work. Simon works dealing with simple but helpful changes in cognition to a deeper exploration where necessary. This could include working with psychodynamic issues, addiction work and deep inner child work in which the client is able to gently re-parent themselves and become aware of the different voices within. Drawing on the wisdom of the soul, sessions may track and alleviate patterns (samskaras) that may be lodged in the client’s ancestry, which require deeper work to dislodge.
‘I like to work with those clients who are besieged by archetypal experiences they don’t understand – abandonments, betrayals, loss – those things that disorient and leave us in the wilderness. Conventional tools often don’t help and it is necessary to cross a threshold into unknown lands. I went through those experience myself and guess I wish I had a steady guide. Instead, I had several passing mentors who helped me get through by understanding my experience within the context of the deep soul and its need – often contrary to those of the personality,’ said Simon.
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“Our story… is much older than its years, its datedness is not to be measured in days, nor the burden of age weighing upon it to be counted by orbits around the sun, it does not actually owe its pastness to time.”
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John Noonan, Arthur Yeti, Kyle Johnson