HushTherapy with Jo Jones - The TheraCoach

24/02/2026

This is a crisis situation for young people & their mental health. (We’re seeing it in adults too)

AI is notoriously dangerous to use as a therapy substitute. It cannot pick up on your state, access your non-verbal communication cues, challenge you, or help you reflect in any other format than telling you what it thinks you want to hear. It is often wrong. And it contains insufficient safeguarding.

Please be safe and consult trained and insured therapists, counsellors & coaches

We’ve written to the UK government about our concerns with AI and mental health.

We think AI platforms and mental health services can work safely together, but we need to take steps to get there. We need to make mental health support quicker and easier to access so people are not needing to fill the gap with AI tools in times of need.

There is an urgent need for stronger safeguards, and shared accountability.

Read our article in The Guardian to see more details about our letter: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/20/mind-mental-health-expert-google-ai-summaries

17/02/2026

09/02/2026

New website is 🪄✨ Under construction 🙌🏼

If you can’t find my old one, that’s why.

Feel welcome to message me here if you need me.
And in the meantime, here are some waffles 🧇🧈

09/02/2026

I’m getting a huge number of referrals & self/parental referrals for their children and teens who are struggling right now.

It’s heartbreaking.
And I’m here to help.

I’m Jo. I’ve been a therapist & mindfulness teacher for almost a decade 🪄✨💛

And I’ve helped hundreds of children and young people to: manage their anxiety, stay in school, sleep better, feel comfortable hanging out with their friends, build friendships that work for them…& understand their brains

Message me if your child or teen is having a tough time right now

It’s Children’s Mental Health Week and it’s so important for us to encourage our children to share their thoughts and feelings about their mental health and to support one another.

06/02/2026

04/02/2026

Just a reminder that you are doing your best, and that’s more than enough. It’s okay to take it one day at a time.

24/12/2025

Heartfelt thanks & oodles of love to all.

Whether you’ve worked with me this year, listened to me speak, supported me in some way, used my MindMedicine Hub… or just accidentally got a bit too close and had to hear me bang on endlessly about either perimenopause, or teenage brains.

Wishing you a very peaceful, happy & healthy festive break.
Merry Christmas & let’s do it all again in 2026

With heart, Jo xx

16/12/2025

For anyone who needs some support throughout this period 🎄🙏🏼

04/11/2025

Yay!! Looking forward to speaking at UK Hypnosis Convention in November 🪄✨ 💛

24/10/2025

Very excited to be speaking at UK Hypnosis Convention in November 🪄✨🙌🏼💛

Where I’ll be talking all things & to shine some useful light on how we can make this life phase so much more manageable & comfortable for the 1.3 billion women going through it

16/10/2025

Inexcusable 😔

In 2023, 7,055 people in the UK died by su***de. This is devastating.

It's time for change.

The data and lived experience in our new Big Mental Health Report
reflect the full scale of the challenges we’re facing within mental health.

Share this report as widely as possible.

P.S. you can read the full report on our website. [Link in in comments].

10/10/2025

Tragically true.

This , we felt it was important to highlight the real and urgent mental health crisis young people face right now. This is Jessica’s story. Too many young people like Jessica are navigating a society that is full of challenges and pressure that makes their mental health worse. And then when they reach out for support, they are told they are ‘not sick enough’, have to wait months and months or are turned down completely.

“I have grappled with my mental health from a young age and growing up with cerebral palsy has its challenges. It can be really frustrating trying to navigate and fit into a world that isn’t accessible to you. A world that has expectations and pressures that go against you.

I am an 18-year-old who was referred to CAMHS at age 12 with anxiety and depression, and started to seek help, only to be turned away. It should not have taken five years trapped in a system to be then told as I was turning 18 that the service could no longer provide for me. This needs to change.”

Every young person should get the mental health support they need, when they need it, no matter what.