Check Your Head Counselling

27/04/2026

Social media has already done a fairly decent job of making everyone compare themselves, diagnose themselves, brand themselves and wonder why they feel slightly terrible after looking at a glowing rectangle for an hour.

So naturally, we have decided to add AI into the mix.

My latest Check Your Head blog looks at social media, AI and mental health, and asks what comes next when the internet stops being just a place we scroll and starts becoming something we consult, confess to, argue with, compare ourselves through and maybe even depend on.

This is not an anti-technology rant. I use technology. I am not writing this by candlelight with a quill while shouting at clouds.

But it is worth asking what happens to anxiety, identity, self-worth, relationships and therapy when people are increasingly shaped by feeds, algorithms, chatbots and endless personalised content.

Because the issue is not just screen time. It is what those screens are teaching us to look for, fear, perform and believe about ourselves.

New blog here - Social media has already done a fairly decent job of making everyone compare themselves, diagnose themselves, brand themselves and wonder why they feel slightly terrible after looking at a glowing rectangle for an hour.

So naturally, we have decided to add AI into the mix.

My latest Check Your Head blog looks at social media, AI and mental health, and asks what comes next when the internet stops being just a place we scroll and starts becoming something we consult, confess to, argue with, compare ourselves through and maybe even depend on.

This is not an anti-technology rant. I use technology. I am not writing this by candlelight with a quill while shouting at clouds.

But it is worth asking what happens to anxiety, identity, self-worth, relationships and therapy when people are increasingly shaped by feeds, algorithms, chatbots and endless personalised content.

Because the issue is not just screen time. It is what those screens are teaching us to look for, fear, perform and believe about ourselves.

New blog here - https://checkyourhead.co.uk/blog/f/what-comes-next-social-media-ai-and-our-mental-health

Social media still dominates a lot of modern life, but it no longer feels like the future. For many people, it feels tired, performative, and strangely empty.

07/04/2026

New film therapy blog post.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 might look like a comic-book blockbuster, but underneath it is a surprisingly sharp story about fathers, sons, masculinity, and the role model gap many men carry quietly into adulthood.

This post looks at absent fathers, conditional love, emotional armour, identity, and why struggles with anger, shutdown, self-doubt, or relationships in men often have deeper roots than they first appear to.

If that sounds familiar, this one may resonate.

Men’s mental health is often shaped long before adulthood - through fatherhood, absence, role modelling, and the emotional messages boys receive about what it means to be a man. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 offers a su...

02/04/2026

Sometimes the hardest part is not the ending itself. It is accepting that something mattered, changed you, and still cannot stay.

This new film therapy blog uses Terminator 2 as a way into something more human beneath the action: attachment, separation, grief, avoidance, and why letting go can feel so much harder than it “should”.

Because endings are rarely tidy. Sometimes we cling. Sometimes we detach too early. Sometimes we tell ourselves we are fine, when really we are struggling with the fact that something important is over.

T2 turns out to be a surprisingly good lens for all of that.

Nothing lasts forever. But letting go is rarely just about the ending itself. Whether it is a relationship, a phase of life, a role, or a version of ourselves, endings can stir attachment wounds, avoidance, grief, and fe...

24/03/2026

Fatherhood can give men purpose, but it can also quietly strip away identity, rest, softness and space to struggle.
This piece is about men’s mental health, fatherhood, and the protector role, and what happens when being the one who holds everything together starts to come at a cost.

For a brief and oddly intoxicating window of time, many fathers are superheroes. To young children, we are impossibly strong, endlessly capable, and emotionally indestructible.

20/01/2026

Therapy isn’t content, and change doesn’t come from consuming it.

This page exists as a signpost, not a feed.

13/03/2025

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16/04/2024

New Blog!

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