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I'm a clinical psychologist, animal-assisted therapist, private practice owner, board-approved supervisor & the creator of the SPARKSFIRE® Approach - a no-fluff approach to helping therapists move from overworked and overwhelmed to confident and thriving.

14/10/2026

“I'll sort it out when things calm down.”

How many times do you say that in a week?!

Would it be fair to say if that's been your go to fairly frequently for the last couple of years (or the entirety of your life up until and including this morning) then there's a pretty good chance things aren't going to magically calm down tomorrow.

And when you're already running on fumes, the last thing you need is another massive project to add to your to-do list that requires time, energy and brainpower you don't currently have.

Which is exactly why my SPARKS Approach to burnout recovery is about identifying the smallest behaviours, that, when adapted a little, will have the biggest impact.

I'm talking the things that take five minutes to set up but save you having to remember, decide or deal with the same annoying thing over and over again. Or just make your mornings 10% more doable.

So I'm starting a little SPARKSFIRE series on exactly that. Small, practical shifts that make everyday life and work a bit less draining.

No complete life overhauls required. And no spending spoons you simply don't have.

Coz I'm fairly sure you've already got enough on your plate without adding *fixing your entire life* to the to-do list.

Some of the most amazingly advanced tech the world has ever produced...And what am I using it for?* writing sick leave m...
12/10/2026

Some of the most amazingly advanced tech the world has ever produced...

And what am I using it for?

* writing sick leave messages like a Victorian explorer,
* creating ridiculous cartoons, and
* getting make-up tips to disguise my autoimmune Rudolph nose

Ada Lovelace would be so proud! 😆😆

But I swear there is a larger point to this! Two actually! (Even three if you include me just entertaining myself!)

1) Play is one of the most natural ways we learn. We experiment, get curious, try things out, make mistakes, and discover possibilities we wouldn't necessarily have thought of if we were focussed on getting something right.

And learning AI is no different.

You don't need to understand all the technology or have some grand plan for how you're going to use it. Sometimes just mucking around with it is the best way to build confidence and discover what it can do.

2) Importantly: not everything we do needs to be productive or have a practical purpose!!

Sometimes we're allowed to do things simply because they're fun!

Yes! Even super serious professional allied health workers! 😆😆

That's what the 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘺 & 𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 part of SPARKS is all about. And I'm highlighting it here because it's also usually the first domain we abandon when we're busy being responsible adults.

So don't neglect the silly, child-like or nerdy parts of yourself while you're out living your very serious professional lives!

And, tell me: what's the most ridiculous/fun/silly thing you've used AI for?

I'm always looking for new ways to abuse perfectly good technology.

07/10/2026

I’ve had a few supervisees this week absolutely 𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 themselves over very ordinary, very human mistakes.

Not reckless mistakes. Or 'we need to stage an intervention' mistakes.

Just regular, run of the mill moments where a thoughtful, conscientious clinician looks back and thinks:

"Ugh. I wish I’d handled that differently."

And because our perfectionistic, over-thinking brains can be spectacularly unhelpful, that can turn very quickly from:

“I 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦.”

into:

“T𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘪𝘵. 𝘐'𝘮 𝘯𝘰 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘈𝘩𝘱𝘳𝘢!”

So to give you all some perspective - I decided to share the most expensive mistake I ever made.

Back in the Therapeutic Tools of the Trade days, I commissioned an anniversary video.
The concept was excellent (if i do say so myself!)

To represent "old-school", boring CPD our pixellated heroine would be running through an old-school video game - dodging obstacles along the way.

Then, when she found TToTT - our new-school awesome, fun and engaging CPD - the whole character and the whole scene would have a She-ra transformation moment and turn into a super modern 3d animated game.

And this is where the people-pleasing side of things comes into the picture.

When I saw the mock-up I was ready to pull the whole thing!

But the Fiverr designer assured me the final version would look much better.

So I ignored every screaming, internal voice saying "oh god! the horror!"

and instead told myself "he knows what he's doing"

Well, you can see for yourself how that turned out.

But, after years of keeping this cinematic masterpiece largely to myself, I am finally releasing it into the world for a useful purpose.

I invite you to SHARE THIS REEL with anyone you know who might need to save this for one of those rainy (and far between days) when they make a mistake.

So they can watch it again, have a laugh, and remember:

Good Clinicians Make Mistakes!

AND

Mistakes Do NOT Negate Competence!

Also, for perspective:

You did not fork out $800 for this video.

That was me.

So really... you’re doing fine.

05/10/2026

I think I’ve found a workaround!!

After last week’s minor breakdown / business-pivot-within-a-business-pivot situation, I spent about 6–7 hours on Saturday talking it through with my AI “CEO”, then another 4-5 hours on Sunday testing the ideas, building things... then breaking them...
..until - one of them actually WORKED!

Cue an entirely unnecessary but deeply satisfying Rocky-style celebration in my office.

I’ve been testing it all week and, while there’s still one piece I want to get working properly before I call it done, I’m now - cautiously - VERY excited.

Because if this works the way I think it will, I can still offer what I’d built the bot suite to do — but in a way that may actually be more stable (and possibly even better) than the original version. (although i'm really not ready for anyone to use the words "silver lining" just yet!)

Plus: if you’ve already bought one of my bots, - please don’t panic! I've got you!

And if you’ve built your own library of custom GPTs and are currently wondering what the hell you’re supposed to do with them come December, again, never fear - I’m thinking about running a live webinar once I’ve finished testing everything, where I’ll show you exactly what I’ve done and how you can do it too.

If that would be useful, comment “WEBINAR PLEASE” below.

If there’s enough interest, I’ll put one together.

And stay tuned for part 3 of what has apparently become a live case study in the organisational/system arm of SPARKSFIRE! 😂

Turns out, being aware of your patterns does 𝘯𝘰𝘵 magically stop your brain from suggesting them as the solution.The whol...
30/09/2026

Turns out, being aware of your patterns does 𝘯𝘰𝘵 magically stop your brain from suggesting them as the solution.

The whole custom GPT/bot-suite debacle has been a particularly good example of this for me.

Because I know what my old path looks like.

Something goes wrong → panic → work harder → fix it immediately → try not to let anything else drop while I sort it out.

And I also know that doing exactly that here would somewhat defeat the purpose of creating this arm of the business in the first place!

I’ve spent months deliberately building this bot product suite in a way that better accommodates my health and protects my capacity.

So rebuilding it by running myself into the ground would be... a choice.

Hence my current accidental experiment:

Can I actually choose the 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵 when the 𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵 is VERY well-practised, readily available and promising it can make all this discomfort go away much faster?

We shall see. 😂

I’m going to keep sharing what this looks like as I work through the pivot — including where AI is helping, where it absolutely isn’t, and whether I can manage to practise some of the things I spend so much time talking about.

Old path?

New path?

Let’s see how we go!

28/09/2026

This wasn't quite what I'd planned to be posting this week...

I'd deliberately cleared my client calendar last week so I could finally finish launching something I’ve spent the better part of two years building.

And instead?

I'm doing a major business pivot 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 what was already a major business pivot.

Awesome.

But once the initial - quite frankly - "Well. S**t" phase passed - I realised this might actually be useful to share.

Because SPARKSFIRE is all about pulling back the curtain and naming the invisible loads so we can actually do something about them.

So it would really defeat the purpose of SPARKSFIRE if I waited to share this AFTER it was all figured out. Or waited to tell it when I could pretend that whatever solution I land on was "all part of the plan" from the start.

Coz I very much do NOT know how I'm going to pull up from this nose dive right now.

Thanks to the work I've done in the personal domain (including with some SPARKS tactics FYI) - I'm confident I'll figure it out - but I very much do not know how that's going to go just yet.

So join me for the upcoming roller coaster as I figure out where to next! I can't wait to see how it turns out! :)

One of the trickiest things about the niche I’ve chosen is this:The people who probably need my work most are often the ...
23/09/2026

One of the trickiest things about the niche I’ve chosen is this:

The people who probably need my work most are often the people with the least capacity to engage with it.

Which is, admittedly, a bit of a design flaw in my business model. 😅

Because when you’re already exhausted, overwhelmed and running on fumes, the last thing you need is another 47-point framework telling you all the things you should be doing differently.

I’ve been paying attention to that.

And it’s why I made the 5-min 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗦𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗘 𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝘀 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗼𝘂? quiz.

Rather than asking you to fix everything, it helps you work out where the biggest load is sitting right now - in your personal patterns and capacity, your professional world, or the systems around your work.

Then it gives you three small, simple places to start.

No massive upheavals or to-do list add-ons.

Just the bit that might make things a little easier from here.

Take the quiz here:
https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/quiz/9dWFp9coZnCrsLXKvink

21/09/2026

Burnout recovery gets a bit tricky when the parts of your brain you need for planning, prioritising and problem-solving are also the bits running on fumes.

So it's not terribly helpful if the recovery "advice" is:

"Change everything. Now."

Too much in general - let alone for a brain and a body in burnout mode.

So I've made you a simple roadmap instead.

Start with the 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗦𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗘 𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝘀 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗼𝘂? quiz.

It’ll help you work out whether the biggest load right now is sitting in your personal patterns and capacity, your professional world, or the systems and admin around your work.

Then I’ll give you 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 small starting-point experiments for that area.

Things like;
- noticing one invisible “should”,
- dropping one "nice to have but not 100% necessary" clinical extra, or
- finding one repeat task that’s stealing ten minutes from you every week and make a template/automation for it.

Not a complete life overhaul.

Just somewhere useful to start to make a difference in one area that's costing you more than it needs to.

Take the quiz via the link below:

https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/quiz/9dWFp9coZnCrsLXKvink

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