Media

I'm a playful and polemical journalist and writer as well as an award-winning consultant clinical psychologist and disabled activist. Regular bylines in the Guardian and the Independent; broadcast including BBC Newsnight and Sky News; radio and podcasts including BBC Woman's Hour and the Moral Maze. I'm as comfortable speaking to Vogue as Novara, and have consulted at arts events from Robert Smith's Meltdown to groundbreaking disability productions at the National Theatre. I regularly consult to the big production companies on series design and act as a dramaturge to thicken psychological realism.

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How we think about mental health and neurodivergence has rarely mattered more — and it connects to older questions about what it is to be human: to suffer, to form groups, to struggle with our shadow parts and with other people's.

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Contributing to these debates matters to me for two reasons. One is nuance in public conversation. The other is more concrete: these discourses become policy, services and material conditions, and they end up shaping my patients' experience of joy and pain in ways they often can't see the source of.

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What I bring to a piece is three things at once — storytelling that holds a listener or viewer, current research and the evidence base, and my own lived experience as a mad and disabled person. I'm used to working to fast media turnarounds. Do get in touch.