Private Practice
Advisory
Private counsel for a small number of families, and for the schools and institutions responsible for young people. By referral.
What this is
A confidential, ongoing advisory relationship for families raising children inside digital and algorithmic environments. It brings together clinical and developmental psychology and a close reading of the systems young people now live inside. The thinking is the same as my research. The work is private rather than published.
What it looks like in practice
A small number of structured conversations across the year, with shorter exchanges between. Each is organised around the question the family is actually living with: a platform that has become a concern, a school transition that revealed something new, a sibling difference that is harder to read than it should be, a boundary the family wants to think through properly. I am not a clinician on call. I am a thinking partner with developmental and technological literacy.
Who I work with
Among the families I work with are some from Le Rosey, Harrow, Eton, and Institut auf dem Rosenberg. For the better part of a decade I have worked with young people and their families: with parents, and often directly with the young person; where it helps, with the school around them. Engagements come almost entirely by referral: family offices, principal advisers, headteachers and heads of school, private clinicians, lawyers. Institutional work also fits here, quietly advising the leadership of a school, a charity, a research-led ed-tech team, or, on occasion, national government, as I have with bodies in Portugal and Lithuania. The number of engagements is deliberately small, so the work stays personal. I do not work with companies whose product I would not be able to explain to a sceptical parent.
Discretion
Engagements are confidential. There are no testimonials, no case studies, and no public client list. References are available privately, on request, through people you already trust.
A first conversation
The first conversation is exploratory and puts you under no obligation. It is simply a chance to describe what is on your mind and to judge, without pressure, whether I am someone who can help. What you tell me is held in confidence. A young person’s safety matters to me before anything else, and where it is right I work alongside the clinicians, school, and advisers already around your family rather than in place of them.
ProvenancePhD, University of St Andrews. A&J Education, recognised by His Majesty King Charles III, 2024.
Enquiries
If you are an existing referrer, use the channels we already share. If you are arriving directly, write briefly through the contact page and mention the person who suggested I might be the right reader for your situation.
The contact page