“Algorithms shape identity — so resilience, focus, and digital literacy are now survival skills.”
Psychologist | Author | Founder of Xsrted
I connect the dots between culture, trauma, and technology — asking how the systems we invent end up redesigning us. My path has run from academia (Cambridge, St Andrews, Edinburgh), through strategy consulting and EdTech, to clinical practice — where I work with people navigating the pressures of achievement, digital life, and hidden neurodiversity. Through Xsrted and my forthcoming book The Algorithmic Mind, I explore how algorithms shape identity and power — and how resilience today means more than coping: it means reclaiming freedom.
What I Do
- Xsrted – exploring how to support young people and families around neurodiversity, resilience, and digital life.
- Writing – bringing research to life in The Algorithmic Mind (2026) and Borderless (2026).
- Practice – therapeutic support for anxiety disorders, depression, trauma (including PTSD/C-PTSD), burnout, perfectionism, and neurodiversity (ADHD, autism, learning differences).
- Speaking & Consulting – Advising organisations and media on AI ethics, digital stigma, mental health, and cultural polarisation.
Why It Matters
Anxiety, perfectionism, burnout, polarisation — these aren’t just private struggles. They are systemic responses to the cultures and technologies we’ve built. My work asks how we move beyond coping to rethinking the systems that shape us.
About Me
My path runs from Cambridge, St Andrews, and Edinburgh, to strategy consulting, EdTech, and now clinical practice (PsychD). I’ve taught, researched, and written internationally; advised on digital futures at Cambridge; and worked with clients across NHS, schools, and private practice. What ties it together is one focus: how people and systems shape each other.
I work with individuals, schools, and organisations navigating the pressures of achievement, digital life, and mental health. Whether you’re looking for therapy, a school programme, or a speaker for your event, I’d love to hear from you.
Master your Academic Success
Cultivating Excellence, Elevating Resilience, Empowering Potential
Culture Shock: Finding Your Footing in a New World
Navigate new environments with confidence, build resilience, and develop cultural awareness to thrive personally and socially in unfamiliar settings.
Breaking Barriers: Release Psychological Barriers to Academic Success
Overcome self-doubt, anxiety, and limiting habits to unlock focus, confidence, and sustained academic achievement.
Neurodiverse & Thriving: Own Your Strengths
Harness your unique cognitive strengths, build resilience, and transform challenges into opportunities for personal and academic success.
Degree Course Clarity
Discover your best Career
path vision
Breaking Barriers
Release the psychological blockers
to your academic success
Academic Advising
Improve performance wellbeing
and employability
Online Courses
Psychological stressors present an increasingly common reason for students to struggle. I use cutting-edge research from neuroscience, combined with a range of research-led exercises –both mental and practical– to take you successfully through an 8 step process to enhance your academic performance and well-being.
Breakthrough Digital Perfectionism
In today’s nonstop digital world, high-achieving minds face intense pressure to perform, compare, and curate. My work helps them break free from perfectionism, build resilience, and reclaim focus, confidence, and healthier habits.
Breakthrough Digital Anxiety
My work helps people spot digital triggers, break unhelpful loops, and build resilience. Using evidence-based strategies in mindfulness, reward learning, and self-compassion, I support students, parents, and professionals to retrain their focus, manage digital stress, and regain calm, confidence, and control.
Breakthrough DigitalProcrastination
In today’s nonstop digital world, attention is constantly hijacked by feeds and notifications. I help high-achieving minds understand how algorithms drive procrastination, uncover the triggers behind it, and develop strategies to restore focus, balance, and productive engagement with technology.
Breakthrough
Perfectionism
Breakthrough
Anxiety
Breakthrough
Procrastination
Algorithms don’t just shape feeds — they shape minds. For high-achieving youth, this can mean hidden struggles with perfectionism, anxiety, and digital distraction. I combine neuroscience, clinical practice, and ethical tech to deliver bespoke support — one-to-one or in small cohorts — that strengthens focus, confidence, and resilience where it matters most.
Keeping it authentic, fearless and compassionate.
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