Change Your Mind, Change Your Life

PRODUCER / DIRECTOR

BBC One | Twenty Twenty | 4 × 45’ | 2024–2025

A BBC One therapy series capturing real, full-length therapy sessions on camera for the first time.

We filmed genuine therapy sessions over several months using fixed-rig cameras hidden behind two-way mirrors, allowing contributors to forget they were being filmed and to engage as openly and honestly as possible. No scripts, no interventions - just people, often messily, trying to understand themselves a little better.

By representing a wide range of contributors, the series actively challenged the idea that going to therapy means you’re weak, broken, or unable to cope. The underlying message was simple but radical: you are not broken, you are not alone - and facing your issues is an act of courage.

At its heart, though, this was about telling deeply human stories in all their chaos and contradiction, and watching people, with expert support, find a way through the things that trouble them.

My role included conducting and lighting master interviews, directing on the fixed-rig setup, self-shooting presenter visits with Matt and Emma Willis, helping shape the visual language and tone of the series, and editing one 45’ episode. With hundreds of hours of footage captured across months for each contributor and just fifteen minutes of screen time available per story, the central challenge was editorial: distilling complex emotional journeys without flattening them, and making something nuanced feel clear, truthful, and accessible.

The project required:

• Handling highly sensitive subject matter, and extremely vulnerable contributors with care, patience, and trust,

• A light-touch, observational directing style that prioritised authenticity over intervention,

• Balancing emotional depth with warmth and accessibility for a broad BBC audience

“Quietly groundbreaking” according to The Telegraph.
”Worse than rubbish”, according to The Daily Mail….which in my eyes is a rave review.