The Algorithm and the Adult: Why AI Cannot Hold the Polyglot Heart

Reflections from the Digital Consulting Room There was a time in my life when I trusted almost entirely in logic. Long before I trained as a psychodynamic psychotherapist, I spent years working in the UK semiconductor industry. My world was built on timing diagrams, signal integrity, digital protocols, […]

The BetterHelp Phenomenon: From Digital Gateway to Clinical Depth

By Ari Sotiriou (MA, PGDip) UK Accredited Psychotherapist Photo by Kadir Avsar @Pexels In the history of mental health, few entities have altered the landscape as rapidly as the “Platform Model.” Global giants like BetterHelp and ReGain have achieved what decades of public health campaigns could not: the […]

The Polyglot Heart: Language-Switching and the ‘Mother Tongue’ in Online Psychotherapy

Photo credit Franco Garcia @Pexels By Ari Sotiriou (MA, PGDip) UK Accredited Psychotherapist In the globalised landscape of 2026, the modern professional is often a linguistic nomad. We work in English, socialise in French, and perhaps argue in Greek. For the expatriate community—stretching from the financial hubs of […]