Therapy FAQs
What is your approach?
I am an MBACP-registered therapist with a Diploma in Counselling, working from a relational, trauma-informed, and neurodivergent-affirming perspective. My style is warm, informal, direct, and thoughtful. I help clients make sense of recurring patterns, emotional responses, relationship dynamics, and the deeper structures shaping their lives, so that change feels clearer, steadier, and more possible.
Do you work with neurodivergence?
Yes. I am neurodivergent myself and have particular experience supporting neurodivergent clients, including ADHD, autism, and AuDHD. This includes overwhelm, burnout, masking, shame, invalidation, relationship friction, emotional intensity, and the exhaustion of trying to function in ways that do not fit how you are built.
My aim is to help you understand yourself more clearly, not reduce you to a label.
How long will therapy take?
It depends on your aims, your history, and your current level of stability. Some people come for a few focused sessions. Others stay longer for deeper work, or return occasionally for top-up support at key points in life.
We agree a pace that is deep enough to be meaningful and safe enough to sustain.
Do you work online or in person?
Most clients work with me online via Zoom.
I sometimes offer in-person sessions to new clients, depending on availability and suitability. Returning clients are welcome to get in touch if they would like to arrange an in-person session.
What does MBACP mean?
MBACP means I am a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
I work in line with the BACP Ethical Framework, which supports safe, ethical, and professionally accountable practice.
Do you work with under-18s?
Therapy is offered to clients aged 18 and over.
I may work with some 16–18-year-olds at my discretion, depending on suitability and circumstances. If you are aged 16–18, or enquiring on behalf of someone who is, please get in touch before booking.
Can I use the app instead of therapy?
The app can be a valuable space for reflection, insight, and personal growth. Therapy offers something different: live relational feedback, attunement, containment, and deeper integration.
Some people use the app on its own, some use therapy, and some find the combination especially supportive. Separate app terms and policies apply.
Do you work with clients outside the UK?
I may work with clients outside the UK, depending on suitability, risk considerations, and practical or legal constraints.
If you are based outside the UK, please read the International Clients section in the Therapy Terms before booking.
App FAQs
What is Recognition Loops™?
Recognition Loops™ is a guided self-understanding app designed to help you see the hidden emotional and relational patterns shaping your life.
Through reflective tools, structured insights, guided practices, and AI-supported reflections, the app helps you recognise what keeps repeating, understand why it repeats, and begin moving towards greater clarity, coherence, and change.
What will I find inside the app?
The app includes structured assessments, Recognition Maps™, Stitch-in-Time Quests™, reflective practices, therapeutic tools, guided journalling, AI-supported insight sessions, and deeper educational content.
Everything is designed to help you understand your inner world, your relationships, and the recurring patterns shaping your life.
Is the app therapy?
No. Recognition Loops™ is not therapy and does not replace therapy, counselling, crisis support, or medical care.
It is a reflective and educational tool designed to support insight, self-understanding, emotional clarity, and personal growth.
Who is the app for?
The app is for people who want to understand themselves more deeply.
Some people come because they feel stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, or caught in repeating patterns. Others come because they want more clarity, better relationships, greater self-awareness, or a more meaningful way of understanding their life.
Do I need prior knowledge to use it?
No. The app is designed to be accessible whether you are completely new to this kind of work or already deeply engaged in therapy, psychology, self-development, or personal growth.
How do the AI-guided insight sessions work?
The AI-guided insight sessions are designed to help you reflect more deeply on your experiences, patterns, emotions, and relationships.
They are intended to support thought, reflection, and self-understanding, rather than provide diagnosis or clinical advice.
Can the app help with relationships?
Yes. A major focus of Recognition Loops™ is helping you understand recurring patterns in attachment, conflict, boundaries, emotional responses, communication, and connection.
The aim is to help you relate with more clarity, self-awareness, and stability.
Is this only for people who are struggling?
No. Some people use the app because they are struggling. Others use it because they are curious, reflective, growth-oriented, or simply want to understand themselves more deeply.
Will the app tell me what is wrong with me?
No. The purpose is not to label or pathologise you.
The app is designed to help you understand your patterns more clearly and compassionately, so that change feels more possible and less overwhelming.
How is Recognition Loops™ different from other self-development apps?
Recognition Loops™ focuses on the deeper architecture beneath your life, not just surface habits, symptoms, or productivity.
It helps you understand the hidden patterns linking emotion, memory, relationships, behaviour, and repeated experience across time.
Substack FAQs
What is the Recognition Loops™ Substack?
The Recognition Loops™ Substack is where I publish long-form writing exploring psychology, relationships, emotional patterns, consciousness, society, neurodivergence, and the deeper structures shaping reality and lived experience.
It is the intellectual home of the wider Recognition Loops™ world.
What kind of writing do you publish?
I write about recurring patterns in personal life, relationships, culture, family systems, trauma, power, identity, neurodivergence, self-understanding, and the hidden architecture beneath everyday experience.
Some articles are practical and grounded. Others are bigger-picture pieces exploring philosophy, society, history, language, consciousness, and reality itself.
Do I need to agree with everything to enjoy it?
Not at all.
The writing is designed to make people think, question, reflect, and notice what feels true for them. You do not have to agree with every idea to find something valuable in it.
Is the Substack free?
Yes. Many articles are free to read.
There is also a paid subscription option for people who want access to the full archive, deeper pieces, subscriber-only posts, and additional content.
How does the Substack fit with the app?
The Substack and app work well together, but they are different experiences.
The Substack gives you the ideas, frameworks, and bigger-picture understanding. The app helps you apply those ideas to your own life through reflection, tools, assessments, and guided insight.
Many people will find that reading the Substack first gives them a strong foundation before using the app more deeply.
What topics do you write about most?
Common themes include:
- Relationships and attachment
- Neurodivergence
- Emotional patterns
- Family systems
- Shame, masking, and overwhelm
- Society and power
- Consciousness and reality
- Recurring life patterns
- Self-understanding and change
- The Mirror Paradigm and Recognition Loops™
Is the Substack only for people interested in psychology?
No. While psychology is a big part of it, the writing also explores philosophy, relationships, culture, power, history, language, consciousness, and the deeper patterns shaping everyday life.
Where should I start?
Start with the articles or themes that feel most familiar, uncomfortable, interesting, or strangely relevant.
The strongest patterns are often hidden in what keeps catching your attention.