Not Broken. Just due a Service.
You service your car. You get a dental check-up. Are you checking in with your mental health?
You're the person other people lean on. The work gets done. The calendar runs. The people in your life stay looked after. And quietly, somewhere underneath, the pressure has been climbing for longer than you've wanted to admit.
The MOT is a single sixty-minute session with a BACP-registered clinician, followed by a digital report of advice and recommendations that you keep.
What is a Mental Health MOT?
A Mental Health MOT is a single, structured psychological session designed to give you a clear, written read of where you actually are mentally — without committing you to ongoing therapy. Most people don't come to therapy because something has broken. They come because something has been quietly costing them — sleep, focus, patience, the version of themselves they used to recognise — and they want to look at it properly before it gets worse.
The MOT is built for that moment. A deliberate stocktake of where you actually are, with someone qualified to read the patterns.
Who is it for?
You might recognise yourself in any of these.
The senior leader whose anxiety has learned to look like competence.
The fatigued business owner still showing up at work and going quieter at home.
The founder who built the life they planned and is quietly asking what comes next.
The person whose mind won't quieten — health worries, intrusive thoughts, the loops you can't reason your way out of.
The person whose life looks different than the one they planned — children grown, a marriage ended, an old social architecture that hasn't quite rebuilt.
You're not in crisis. You're not at the point of needing rescuing. You're at the point where it would be useful, finally, to hear what someone who does this for a living thinks.
What does it include?
One sixty-minute session and a written summary you keep.
The session is a conversation grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy — an evidence-based approach well suited to the patterns that don't resolve themselves with more effort. The summary lands within three working days. What's actually going on. What's worth attending to. A clear view on whether ongoing work would help, or whether the one session was enough.
Your MOT is conducted by Albie Mew-Davies, our founder and BACP recognised therapist, ACT practitioner, and guest lecturer in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy at Canterbury Christ Church University. Not allocated from a pool. Not matched by an algorithm. The same person, every time.
What if I want to continue?
The MOT is its own thing — there is no pressure and no expectation. But some people come to the end of the session and want to keep going. If that's you, there's a clear path. A six-session programme, a twelve-session programme, or open-ended ongoing work — the clinical picture from your MOT informs exactly what makes sense. You won't need to re-explain yourself. The work picks up where the MOT left off, with the same person who conducted it.
Do you have questions?
Book a free appointment to begin your journey toward sustained well-being in challenging circumstances.