I qualified as a doctor in the UK in 1998 and am still registered today with the GMC (General Medical Council) as a ‘doctor in good standing.’ You can look me up here on my serial number: 4514897. I became  a surgeon and then did a couple of years of specialist training in Orthopaedics & Trauma, before leaving the NHS (National Health Service) and clinical practice in 2003.

So these days I no longer need and no longer hold what is called a ‘Licence to practice’ which basically means I can’t prescribe drugs to anyone. This is a good thing, because I don’t subscribe to the classical ‘medical model’ of mental healthcare and I would not wish to prescribe anyone psycho-active drugs.

Q: Does that mean you're anti-psychiatry, then? And anti-drugs?

A: I’m not anti-anything. I have colleagues who work from the same understanding of innate health as me, who are psychiatrists and they are doing phenomenal work. Further up this page there was a heading that said, ‘We’re all doing what makes sense to us’ and that holds true for everybody – including those who are radically opposed to the way I work, and are engaged in helping others in their own way.

We’re all operating from within our individual thought-systems… indeed that is the basis of my work: to make that very fact more visible for you, so that you can step outside of those belief systems and into your true nature.

So I have no problem with people being prescribed drugs, if they’re truly indicated, if they’ve been proven to work to relieve symptoms, if it’s done with fully informed consent that spells out any difficulty in coming off them, and if it’s with a view to getting people to a point where they are helped to have insights into the nature of their problems. How that all looks from within my own belief system, is that these conditions are rarely met! You’ll have your own views too, and that's absolutely fine.

If you want to read more about my perspective on mental health and mental illness, I wrote a piece called “Realising Our Mental Health” that was published in the October 2021 edition of the Focus Magazine. You can read it here.

Q: What method do you employ, to help people?

A: I’ve pointed to it a lot on this page: I lead clients back to their innate health. I provide a space for you that is free from judgement or pressure—a safe, supportive, and light-hearted environment—where you get to reflect on the principles that underpin the experience you’re having, and have insights that change the nature of your problem completely.

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So it’s not a method per se. There are no tools or techniques involved, it is purely insight-based. As I alluded to in the above question, it is to see that all ‘methods’ (and tools, and techniques, and labels that get attributed to people's experiences) are essentially creations of a human thought system, and to see who you really are prior to all of that is profoundly helpful, practical and restorative.

What you will find on this exploration is all the stuff you are looking for: peace of mind, creativity, fulfilment, intuition, connection, forgiveness, wisdom, oneness, gratitude, security, insight, wellbeing… it’s all there, waiting for you, and it’s only ever obscured by innocent misunderstanding. It’s pretty cool! Everyone I’ve met who’s had their eyes opened to it has experienced profoundly positive life changes.

Historically speaking, you could say it’s nothing new—the Stoics, the Sufis, the Buddhists, the Yogis, the Abrahamic faiths, all the ancient wise… they’ve all been pointing to the same thing in different ways—but more recently the most influential of teachers in this field was a man called Sydney Banks, a Scottish welder who had an out-of-the-blue enlightenment experience in 1973 and who devoted the rest of his life to leading others back to their innate health.

The principles underpinning this work have gone by many names since then: Health Realization, Innate Health, The Inside-Out understanding, Subtractive Psychology and the Three Principles… they are all metaphors for this same, profoundly simple and wonderfully transformative understanding of how we experience life.

The international organisation that serves as home for practitioners such as myself is called the Three Principles Global Community. As such, I am a 3PGC Registered Practitioner. Have a look around the rest of that website if you'd like to delve a bit deeper.

Q: Will I have homework to do?

A: I will not be sending you away with any tools or techniques that you need to practice in order to move forwards, no. Nor will you have to do anything like journalling or meditating in order to delve through the content of your thoughts, or try and avoid them. You’ll hear me say, a lot, “To experience wellbeing, there is nothing to do, only something to see,” so I'm not going to be adding anything into the mix for you (it's called ‘subtractive’ for a reason) - you've probably got enough on your plate already! But I will almost certainly be sharing resources with you that lead you to look in this direction, in order for you to have the insights you need to resolve the problems you’re facing.

So there will be reading/listening/watching in between sessions, yes; whatever I feel is relevant for you, given where you're at. But the answers you seek don’t live inside books or podcasts or videos… all of those are merely pointing to the fact that the answers you seek lie deep inside you. Realising that, is what is so truly liberating. I have the best job in the world, being on that journey with you, when it happens. ✨

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Q: What does it cost? Why don't you offer a free ‘discovery call’?

A: Current prices are outlined above. The first appointment is discounted, as I don’t want there to be a barrier to anyone working with me, if they want to. We should all have access to this understanding because, like I said, mental health is our birthright.

But it’s not free, no.* Why not? Because as humans, we’re not set up to value free stuff. If we want change, it’s an inconvenient truth that we need to have some skin in the game. Now, I used to read statements like that on other people’s websites and think, “What a load of crap – they’re just trying to make money!” but my opinion was changed by two experiences:

1. The first is that my hard drive is full of freebies I had every intention of getting stuck into when I signed up to them, but never did and never will – they were useless.
2. The second is the fact that when I used to give away part of my online self-study Fresh Perspective on Wellbeing course for free, the majority of people who signed up for it never ever got started.

I want better than that for you. I want you to commit to change, right from the very start, and in order for that to happen I'm going to gently push you to invest in yourself. You are very welcome 🙏🏻💟

*although it can be, if you feel you got nothing from the first appointment. I will give you your money back. I’m not a monster.

Q: How long will it take?

A: Ah, the biggie. How long is a piece of string? I have had clients who have not even had the chance to become clients because in our initial messaging I recommended a book to them, they read it and the penny dropped so comprehensively that their 49-year long habit they’d been trying to quit for decades disappeared in the space of 36 hours! I kid you not. (You can read Rachel’s testimonial on my Facebook page, here.)

Other people have had one session and everything’s changed completely (watch the video below, for Stacey’s story about recovering from burnout). That said, this is rare, but these inspiring client stories make me look good, so of course I’m going to tell you about them! 😃 

In truth, it all depends on where you’re at, what you’re looking for and how badly you want it. Like everything in life, the responses I see lie on a normal distribution curve. You’ll almost certainly know, after the first appointment, whether this is for you and whether you can see the sense in it, even if you don’t experience profound change there and then, or very soon after. I have chosen to offer packages of five and six sessions, and short, immersive intensives for a reason.

But this isn’t therapy that goes on for years. Nor is it something that you need to practice continually in order to see the benefit. Insights come when they’re ready and neither you nor I have any say in that. However, I will say that you’ve come here for a reason and if you’re still feverishly making your way through the small print at the bottom of the FAQ section on my website, there’s every chance this is what you need.

How does the old Lao Tzu quote go? “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” I would be honoured to find out if I’m the right guide for you, and I have done everything I can to make it easy for you to find out, too.

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