BACP-REGISTERED PSYCHOTHERAPIST · BACKGROUND IN TECH, PRODUCT & GROWTH
Therapy for men in tech, startups and demanding careers.
The people who come here are often used to solving problems for a living. That works well until the problem is a relationship, a career you no longer want, or a mind that keeps working long after the day is over.
- 18+ yearsProduct & growth
- 100+Technology companies
- MScIntegrative Counselling & Psychotherapy
- BACPRegistered psychotherapist
What brings people here
People usually arrive with something specific already happening such as a relationship that is deteriorating, a job they no longer want, anxiety that starts before the week does, or the sense that they are still performing at work but have much less patience everywhere else.
Undisguised · A manifesto
Living deliberately, rather than by fear, approval, performance or inherited expectations.
Work is part of the context
The practice is focused mainly on men whose professional lives carry a lot of weight. The work is psychotherapy, with enough familiarity with tech, startups and business that the professional environment does not need to be explained from scratch.
A well-paid role can be difficult to leave when a family depends on the income. A founder cannot treat a company like a job with a notice period. A reorganisation can be handled professionally and still have a significant personal effect.
Before psychotherapy, I spent more than 18 years in product and growth, including seven years running a consultancy and work with more than 100 technology companies.
How I work
I am fairly active in sessions.
The work is conversational, but it is not passive. We stay close to what happened, what you made of it and what followed. Patterns and contradictions are pointed out when they seem important.
Not every difficulty needs a hidden psychological explanation. A job can be badly designed, a relationship can be ending and money can be a real constraint.
The work goes deeper when there is a reason to go deeper.
Ways to work with me
Individual Psychotherapy
For personal difficulties, recurring patterns and periods of distress that are affecting your relationships, work or life more broadly.
Couples Therapy
For couples dealing with recurring conflict, distance, trust problems or the effect of work and major life changes on the relationship.
Professional Coaching
For a clearly professional decision or situation that can stay focused on work, such as leaving a role, changing direction, leadership or going independent.
If you want to read first
Considering Therapy
Considering Therapy explains what sessions are like, how often I work and what the first few months normally look like.
Writing
Writing is where I go further into work, relationships, ambition, anxiety and career decisions.
Free Tools
Free Tools currently includes two short reflections on burnout and wanting to leave a job.
Undisguised · The map
A way of understanding what drives us and making more deliberate choices about how we live.
About me
My clinical background includes an MSc in Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy from the University of Derby, graduate studies in Psychology, EMDR, somatic training, clinical placement at the Psychiatric Clinic of Metaxa Cancer Hospital, and BACP registration. Before psychotherapy, I spent more than 18 years in product, growth and technology.
Contact
If you think this might fit, tell me briefly what brings you here.