Some context, because most people reading this found Inner Help after it changed.
Growing up, I always felt different. Hard to fit in. Always on edge. Never enough. I could not concentrate. My mind was always somewhere else in the room. I fell so far behind at school that I gave up on doing well and aimed for the only goal that felt possible: finish, and don't get expelled. That counted as success.
I found my first escape at twelve, and I spent the next twenty years recreating it: alcohol, drugs, relationships, work. Whatever stopped the feeling. I lost both my brothers before I was twenty-two, and without any healthy way to cope I went further in. Business success numbed the rest. It built companies. It also cost me. I isolated. I took on too much at once. I burnt out. Then I did it again.
A second failed marriage made me stop and take stock. I wanted a different life, and to be the father my four children deserved. So I reached out for help, faced what was underneath, and started to stand up again. In 2019 I built Inner Help to support other people out of addiction the way I had been supported. For four years that is what this practice was.
In 2024 I finally got assessed and diagnosed with ADHD, and the whole story rearranged itself. I had chased dopamine my entire life, even when it meant doing the wrong thing. Bored to the point of pain. Interrupting, finishing people's sentences, overcompensating. Hyperfocused on business for twenty-four hours straight, no sleep, so locked on a goal that nothing else existed. Crashing highs and lows. Holding it together with both hands and refusing to be labelled.
Here is what I have come to understand: chasing dopamine is what an ADHD brain does. Left unchecked, it can look a lot like addiction. Work only on the behaviour and it keeps finding a new outlet. Understand the brain underneath it and the behaviour starts to make sense.
The diagnosis, and the right support behind it, changed my life. Not because it fixed me. Because for the first time the story made sense, and I could work with my brain instead of against it.
Then I looked at what it takes to get that answer in Australia. Months of waiting. Thousands of dollars. A different rule in every state. People giving up before they start, the way I gave up at school.
So I rebuilt Inner Help around what was underneath: assessment and support for neurodivergent adults, ADHD, autism and AuDHD. A free two-minute self-test. A match to someone who understands how this actually feels. Telehealth, so your postcode does not decide your care. And an assessment pathway, opening late 2026, built by people who know what it is to wait.
I am not a clinician. I am a founder with ADHD who knows how to build things, surrounded by people who are. Nobody on our roster pays to be listed. Nobody is ranked. And nobody who comes to us is told they are behind.
Inner Help is the service I wish had existed at twelve, at twenty, at forty. Days, not months. It is what I needed. It is what I want for you.
Inner Help no longer offers addiction support. If you need help with alcohol or other drugs, the National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline is 1800 250 015, 24 hours. Inner Help is not a crisis service. Lifeline 13 11 14, or 000 in an emergency.