I’m a historian, psychologist and writer working on AI, power and inner life.
As an AI ethics and human-risk adviser, I ask how technological systems shape what we notice, feel, value and become.
The deeper question is:
What, exactly, are we being asked 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 career crossing boundaries that institutions usually keep apart: history and psychology, scholarship and strategy, technology and clinical practice. That has made one thing hard to ignore: systems do not just organise markets or workplaces. They organise people.
We often notice only when the consequences become personal. Anxiety. Exhaustion. Distraction. My work starts one step earlier — with the systems that shape what we fear, pursue, tolerate and eventually call normal.
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 psychological therapy for adults, couples and families, combining depth, care and clinical rigour. PhD, MPhil, MSc (Cantab), MBACP-registered, with doctoral-level training across therapeutic modalities.
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.
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