A second pair of trained hands, not a substitute for your own.

PhD in personality assessment (University of Auckland), with a research background in psychometrics and large-scale longitudinal behavioural studies across multiple institutions. Over a decade of applied work in personality profiling, executive assessment, and organisational development — alongside roughly a decade of dedicated study and practice in mindfulness and contemplative traditions.

The Good For Nothing Project combines those two strands: rigorous, validated profiling (HEXACO, Hogan, or comparable tools depending on what fits the person) and direct, systematic mindfulness training, applied to how a client actually lives, decides, and acts.

I am not a therapist, I do not provide therapy, and I am direct with clients and referrers about that distinction.

The work runs on three fronts: psychological profiling, direct mindfulness training (concentration, clarity, equanimity, developed systematically rather than generically), and applied behavioural work — bringing the trained capacity to bear on a client's actual decisions, communication, and patterns.

The central mechanism: a great deal of psychological difficulty is sustained less by the original experience than by the habitual management around it — the bracing, avoidance, and fixing that prevent the experience from ever being fully met. Where therapeutic work has addressed history, meaning, and management, and a client's core experience still hasn't shifted, this is often why. The work here is to meet the triggered experience directly, with trained attentional skill, rather than continuing to manage around it.

This is not a claim that therapy doesn't work. It's a description of a different lever — one that tends to be most useful once stabilisation and meaning-making work has already happened, not as a replacement for it.

If you think a client might be a fit, the most useful first step is a short conversation between us — before anything reaches the client — so I can give you a genuine read on whether this is likely to help, rather than a generic yes.

Where I take on a client you've referred, I'm glad to stay in contact at whatever level you and the client are comfortable with — from a single check-in to ongoing coordination, particularly if you're continuing to see the client in parallel. Where it becomes clear during the work that clinical input is needed, I'll say so directly and won't continue past my scope.

There's no formal referral form or intake bureaucracy. A message describing what you're seeing and what's prompting the referral is enough to start the conversation.