I’ve worked as a therapist for 26 years, as a hypnotherapist since 2000 and later as a counsellor, and spent nearly 20 of those years training and supervising practitioners. In that time I’ve trained more than 1,000 therapists, and I’m a Fellow of the ACCPH (Accredited Counsellors, Coaches, Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists).

I founded MindMotive AI after building my first Digital Partner for myself, because I wanted somewhere to think things through at 11pm without booking an appointment or tidying my thoughts up first. Designing, testing and refining the Digital Partners since then has given me a practical view of AI that sits somewhere between enthusiasm and alarm, having seen what it does well, where it goes wrong and how much depends on the decisions made by the people who build it.

The courses and resources here draw on both sides of that work, whether you’re a qualified practitioner or just starting out. My aim is to make complex and sensitive subjects accessible without oversimplifying them, so you can make your own decisions with knowledge rather than assumptions.