Dr. Clare

“What feels personal is often designed”

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As AI enters everyday life, judgement, care, and attention are automated.

We are encouraged to cope better. To optimise. To adapt. To keep up.

I’m interested in asking a different question:

What are the systems we’re expected to adapt to?

Economic, cultural, and algorithmic systems quietly reorganise inner life.
Anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, and disconnection emerge as predictable responses, not personal failures.
These patterns are intensified by cultures built on visibility, acceleration, and constant self-management.
Technologies that promise support, efficiency, or care increasingly mediate attention, judgement, and identity.

I’ve spent my working life moving between worlds that rarely speak to one another: academia and strategy consulting, technology product work and clinical practice. I’ve studied and taught at the Universities of Cambridge, St Andrews, and Edinburgh; worked inside organisations trying to design the future; and sat with individuals and couples living with the psychological consequences of those designs.

What ties this together is a single preoccupation: how systems train us — emotionally, relationally, morally — often without asking our consent.

About Me

Alongside clinical work, I speak and write about technology, mental health, and power; advise institutions grappling with responsibility and design; and develop applied projects at the intersection of psychology and care, including NeuroClear, an emerging clinical venture focused on neurodivergent adults.

My forthcoming book, The Algorithmic State, takes the complementary task seriously: examining how contemporary systems shape attention, identity, and care — and what it means to reclaim agency inside them.

In the end, all of the work is about learning to see more clearly.

Ways Into the Work

Thinking, practice, and inquiry across psychology, technology, and public life.

Therapy

Integrative psychotherapy for adults, famillies and couples, combining depth, care, and clinical rigour. PhD, MPhil, MSc (Cantab), MBACP-registered with doctoral-level training in counselling psychology.

Books & Ideas

Writing is where thought slows and sharpens. The Algorithmic State (forthcoming) examines how digital systems govern inner life; Borderless (2026) explores belonging and power across borders. The Algorithmic Mind podcast brings these questions into conversation.

Advisory & Speaking

AI is reshaping behaviour, trust and decision-making. I speak and advise on its psychological and ethical implications, helping organisations anticipate human risk and act responsibly.

Courses & Applied Work

These courses turn research and clinical insight into ways of living more deliberately in contemporary conditions — where digital pressure, achievement culture, and inner life collide. They are for those who want understanding rather than tips, and responses shaped by intention rather than self-blame.

Breakthrough Digital
Perfectionism

Perfectionism doesn’t emerge in a vacuum.

This course explores how comparison, visibility, and algorithmic pressure shape self-worth — and offers ways to loosen their grip without lowering standards.

Breakthrough Digital
Anxiety

Anxiety today is often less about danger than overload.

This course helps you recognise how digital environments train vigilance and urgency — and how to restore steadier attention, regulation, and judgement.

Breakthrough Digital
Procrastination

Procrastination isn’t a failure of willpower.

It’s often the predictable outcome of attention being fragmented and monetised. This course looks at how digital systems hijack focus — and how to reclaim it without force or guilt.

Clare Charlotte Heath