I help your 7-12 year old son handle his emotions — without him shutting down, lashing out, or needing you to fix it.

NO weekly sessions, long waiting lists, or dragging him to therapy.

Your son will take back control
with seven crucial topics.

Steady Minds

Most parents of boys know the feeling. You can see something is going on with him, but all you get is “I’m fine” and a closed door, or an unexplained outburst. Traditional therapy asks them to sit in a room and talk about it, which is precisely what most boys find hardest.
In three years of working with boys, what I’ve seen work first-hand is the opposite: give him the language and the tools first, in a way he’ll actually remember.
The Steady Minds core videos cover the seven topics that come up again and again — anger, anxiety, rejection, sadness, loneliness, jealousy and shame — each with its own metaphor and three videos of around three minutes.
Every topic has a version for boys and one for parents (42 videos in all), so you’re speaking the same language at home, and the boys’ videos work just as well watched together or alone.
It’s self-paced, and many families take one topic a month, watching it a few times until it sticks.
Alongside the core series are the Examples: short, casual two-minute videos aimed at boys, each one taking a specific situation and showing him what to actually do.
What to do when you’ve fallen out with a friend. How to settle your nerves before a big game. What to say when you’ve got something wrong and need to apologise. How to handle a mate who’s being unkind. What to do when you’re dreading an exam, or when you can’t seem to put the screen down.
These are deliberately more relaxed than the main videos. Most of them are filmed first-person from my motorbike as I ride around London, talking to him as I go, so it feels less like a lesson and more like a chat with someone who gets it.
It’s an evergreen library that I add to every week, so whatever he’s dealing with, there’s a good chance there’s a video for it, and if there isn’t yet, there soon will be.
Parents get their own set of Examples too: short, casual two-minute videos that take the situations you’re actually facing at home and show you what to do and say.
What to say when he comes home from school and won’t tell you anything. How to handle it when he loses his temper at his younger brother. What to do when he’s comparing himself to his mates and coming up short. How to respond when he’s been left out of a group chat. How to talk to him about puberty without either of you dying of embarrassment, or what to do when he’s putting off homework until the night before. These sit alongside the boys’ videos, so you’ll know what he’s been told and can back it up at home.
They’re relaxed and to the point, filmed walk-and-talk style as I’m out and about, so it feels like advice from someone who’s sat with a lot of boys rather than a lecture on parenting. Like the boys’ library, it’s evergreen and I add to it every week.

£30/month

Steady Minds (with Jack)

‘With Jack’ includes everything in Steady Minds, plus something no video can give him: a regular check-in with me.
Every other week, he gets 40 minutes with someone outside the family to offload whatever’s been building up. These are deliberately casual. We can do them over a normal FaceTime, or while he’s doing something he already enjoys online, so it never feels like he’s been sent to talk about his feelings.
Some boys get straight into what’s bothering them; others take a few sessions of gaming and chatting before anything comes out, and that’s fine too. The point is that he has someone in his corner who isn’t Mum or Dad, who he can be honest with, and who knows what to do with what he says.
Parents often describe it as a check-in with a big brother who happens to be trained in counselling and psychotherapy, and I think that’s about right!
The last part of ‘With Jack’ is for you. Across the week, you can message or voice-note me as much as you like, and I’ll come back to you. Some situations don’t fit neatly into a video: a fallout that’s got out of hand, a message you’ve seen on his phone, a conversation that went badly and you’re not sure how to recover.
Sometimes you need tailored advice, and sometimes you just need a sounding board from someone who knows your son and knows boys. That’s what this is for. We can set it up as a WhatsApp group so both parents are in the loop, or keep it one-to-one, whichever works for your family.
Every week I send parents a short FAQ straight from the front line. I spend my days with boys, in schools and in sessions, and the same questions and situations come up again and again: the thing everyone in Year 8 is suddenly worried about, the new app or game that’s causing trouble, the phrase boys are using that you’ve probably heard at home and wondered about. Each week I pick out what’s been most on boys’ minds and what parents have been asking me, and give you a plain, practical answer. No jargon, no theory, just what’s actually going on with boys right now and what to do about it. It’s a way of keeping you one step ahead, so when something comes up at home, it isn’t the first time you’ve heard of it.

£150/month

My Background

Since receiving my degree in counselling and psychotherapy (BACP), I've spent three years working with boys in ways that actually work for them. That's meant ditching the traditional therapy room model and building something that boys will actually engage with. Alongside ‘Steady Minds’, I run activity-based sessions for boys at the ‘Global Academy’ school in Ealing. For more details about my qualifications and background, CLICK HERE.

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The Bigger Picture

It’s a tough time growing up for boys - the ‘manosphere’ is everywhere, and it's very good at finding boys who are struggling and giving them somewhere to point their anger. From my work at schools I’ve seen this trickle down from social media to the older boys, and then to the younger boys (even the ones not on social media). My aim is to provide genuine mental health education to help your son understand himself — before someone else with a hidden agenda tells him who he should be.