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Wellbeing is your birthright! Unleash the Alchemist within to reclaim your health!
Wellbeing is your birthright! Unleash the Alchemist within to reclaim your health!
Hands-On Help, Minus The Hassle
Your attention has been sold. This is the programme for taking it back.
A 12-week, one-to-one coaching programme with Ruben S. Seetharamdoo, Registered Mental Health Nurse and author of Digital Detox: The Workbook. Built for professionals who pick up their phone a hundred times a day without deciding to, and who are done pretending that a screen-time limit will fix it.
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The problem, plainly
You do not have a willpower problem. You have a well-resourced industry on the other side of the glass, engineering the exact behaviour you keep blaming yourself for. The evening disappears into a feed. The first ten minutes after waking belong to the phone. The meal, the meeting, the conversation with your child, each one interrupted by a check you did not choose to make.
I spent thirty years in NHS clinical and managerial roles across addiction services, at Harley Street and at the Priory. If you had asked me in 1995 to name the behaviour doing the most damage to the most people, I would have said alcohol without hesitation. Ask me today and I will tell you plainly: it is compulsive digital use. The mechanism is the same one I treated for three decades. So is the way out.
What the programme is
The Great Work is twelve weeks of structured one-to-one coaching, built on my workbook and worked in the order it was written: four weeks mapping the habit and resetting its triggers, four weeks on the body, the ambivalence and the thinking that keeps the pattern in place, and a final month running a measured 21-day detox with daily structure and weekly data.
You will not be asked to throw your phone in a drawer. Total blackouts are the version of a detox most likely to fail. The research points the other way: a detox that is realistic, specific to the one behaviour causing the most harm, and proportionate to the actual pattern, consistently outperforms an attempt to quit everything at once. That is what we build.
Everything is measured. You take a validated-style self-screener in Week 1, Week 8 and Week 12, alongside the screen-time numbers your own devices record. By the end you are not guessing whether it worked. You are comparing three numbers.
How it works
Twelve weekly sessions on video, sixty minutes each. Worksheets between sessions, taken from the eighteen in the workbook. Message support on weekdays for the moments that matter, which are rarely the moments a session happens to be scheduled. Your copy of the workbook is included and posted to you before we start.
Who this is for
The professional whose focus, sleep and evenings are being spent by an app rather than by them. The person who has deleted Instagram four times and reinstalled it five. The parent who wants to be able to say "put the phone down" without hearing the obvious reply. The methods apply to phones, social media, gaming and, increasingly, AI companions and chatbots.
It is not therapy, and I will say so directly if what you describe needs clinical care rather than coaching. Persistent low mood, harm to yourself, or a pattern that is costing you your safety deserves a GP or a therapist, and part of my job is knowing the difference and telling you honestly.
About me
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of West London, a Registered Mental Health Nurse and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health. The programme draws on the same evidence base as the workbook: motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioural therapy, lifestyle medicine and the recovery traditions that have helped people change compulsive behaviour for a century. Chandramani, the teacher whose stories run through the book, comes along too. A pattern learned can be unlearned, though rarely by arguing with it directly.
Fees
The Great Work — Core: £1,950, or three monthly payments of £695. The Great Work — Intensive: £2,950, with midweek calls, a household session and a 90-day follow-up.
Places are limited to eight clients at a time, because the weekday support is real and my replies are written by me.
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Short FAQ
Do I have to give up my phone? No. You will change your relationship with the one or two behaviours doing the most damage. Most clients keep every app they actually value.
What if I relapse in week ten? Then we have information we did not have in week nine. A lapse is data about a trigger we have not finished with yet. The relapse prevention session exists for exactly this.
Is this therapy? No. It is structured coaching built on clinical experience. If what you bring needs treatment rather than coaching, I will tell you, and help you find it.
How much time does it take each week? One hour with me, and twenty to forty minutes of worksheet time. The detox itself, in the final month, gives you time back rather than taking it.
Reclaim: The Root-Cause Coaching Programme for Mental Wellbeing
Twelve Weeks of Lifestyle Psychiatry Coaching with Ruben Seetharamdoo
What This Might Actually Feel Like
In Your Body
A tightness in your chest that doesn't have a clear cause. Waking exhausted no matter how much you slept, or not sleeping properly at all, mind running the moment your head hits the pillow. A low hum of tension in your shoulders and jaw that's been there so long you've stopped registering it as tension. Appetite that's either vanished or become the only thing that feels manageable.
In Your Mind
A worry that doesn't have an off switch, quietly running in the background of everything else you're trying to do. Thoughts that loop, replaying conversations, rehearsing worst cases, well past the point of being useful. A fog that makes concentrating at work feel like wading through water. An inner voice that's harsher with you than you'd ever let anyone else be.
In Your Days
Things that used to bring you something, a hobby, a meal out, time with people you love, now feel flat, or like effort you can't quite justify. Getting through a to-do list has replaced actually living most days. You cancel plans more than you used to. You've started saying “I'm fine” so automatically it barely registers as a lie anymore.
In Your Relationships
Feeling present in the room but somewhere else entirely. Snapping at people who don't deserve it, then feeling worse for it. A creeping sense that you're a burden, or that no one would really notice if you pulled back further. Isolating in small, hard-to-name ways: the message you don't reply to, the invitation you decline before you've even really considered it.
If any of this is landing, you are not broken, and you are not alone in it. These experiences are common, they are real, and for many people they are deeply connected to the upstream, modifiable factors this programme addresses, not because willpower was missing, but because no one ever built the structure that makes change actually hold.
A direct word on safety: if what you're reading here feels urgent, more than difficult, or you are having thoughts of harming yourself, please contact your GP, NHS 111, or the Samaritans on 116 123 first. This programme is not crisis support and is not a substitute for clinical care. Coaching sits alongside good clinical treatment, never in place of it, and part of my job is helping you find the right care first if that's what's actually needed.
Programme Structure
Reclaim runs across three months, twelve weekly sessions, built around the five ways to wellbeing and the two methods in my book, 5½ Ways to Well-Being: The Workbook.
Month One — Naming What's Real
Week 1: Full intake, your history, your Well-Being Check-In baseline
Weeks 2–4: Connect, Be Active, Take Notice, one at a time, worked into your actual week, not a generic plan
Month Two — Building What Holds
Weeks 5–7: Keep Learning, Give, Nutrition
Week 8: The Critical ½ Step, why motivation fades, and what replaces it when it does
Month Three — Making It Last
Weeks 9–10: Review every outcome you've built, strengthen what's stalled
Weeks 11–12: A maintenance plan for after we stop meeting, final Well-Being Check-In, honest comparison against week one
Format
12 × 50-minute one-to-one sessions, weekly. Your own copy of the workbook included. Message support between sessions, replies within 48 hours on weekdays.
Fees
Full programme, paid upfront:
£2,400
Payment plan:
3 × £850 per month
Ruben takes a limited number of clients at a time, alongside his academic and clinical work.
A Few Honest Questions People Ask
Is this therapy?
No. I'm not delivering psychotherapy, and this isn't a substitute for it. If therapy is what you need, I'll say so, and help you find it.
What if I'm already on medication or in therapy?
Then this can sit alongside that care, addressing the lifestyle factors your other treatment may not have room to cover. I'll ask about your current care during intake.
How do I know if this is right for me, versus needing clinical help first?
If what you're experiencing is manageable but stuck, this is likely a good fit. If it's acute, unsafe, or you're not managing day to day, clinical care comes first, and that's a conversation we can have honestly before we begin.
FROM BURNOUT TO BALANCE
The Wellness Alchemist Method — A Three-Month Coaching Programme
You are not falling apart. You are running on empty — and there is a difference.
A three-month programme for professionals who are functioning on the outside and exhausted on the inside — and are ready to get to the root of it.
OPENING
You are not someone who falls apart easily. You have kept things moving — the career, the relationships, the responsibilities — through more than most people would guess. And that is exactly the problem.
Because somewhere along the way, keeping things moving became the only mode you know. The anxiety sits just below the surface. Sleep is rarely restorative. You reach for the same coping strategies and get the same temporary relief. You know something needs to change. You just cannot find where to actually start.
This programme is where you start.
THE BEFORE
You wake up tired before the day begins. Your mind rarely stops — even when your body has. There is a low-level anxiety that has become so familiar you have almost stopped noticing it, except in the moments when it spikes. You are productive, perhaps even successful, but increasingly disconnected from any real sense of purpose or ease. You have tried things — therapy, meditation, perhaps a retreat or two. Some of it helped, for a while. But the patterns came back, because the root was never reached.
THE AFTER
Three months later, your nervous system has learned to settle. You have a daily practice that is simple, sustainable, and built around what actually works for you — not a generic protocol borrowed from a book. You understand what has been driving the patterns, and you have the tools to interrupt them before they take hold. You are sleeping better. You have more energy. Your mind is quieter. You are not reacting to life in the same way. You are not fixed — you are more conscious, more resourced, and more yourself than you have been in years.
WHAT THIS PROGRAMME IS
From Burnout to Balance is a three-month one-to-one coaching programme drawing on lifestyle psychiatry, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, HeartMath heart-coherence training, and twenty-five years of frontline clinical experience in mental health.
Each month has a clear focus: understanding the root cause of what is driving your exhaustion and anxiety; regulating the nervous system so that real change becomes physiologically possible; and transforming that understanding into a daily practice that holds long after the programme ends.
It is rigorous without being clinical. Spiritual without being vague. Practical without being superficial. It meets you exactly where you are.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF
You have been managing symptoms for years without getting to what is underneath. You are a professional who holds a great deal together and rarely admits how depleted you actually are. You are drawn to both the scientific and the contemplative — you want evidence, not just encouragement. You have tried other approaches and found something missing. You are ready to do the real work, not just talk about it.
YOUR GUIDE
Ruben Seetharamdoo is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, Senior Lecturer at the University of West London, and lifestyle psychiatry coach with twenty-five years of clinical experience across the NHS and the United States. He is a licensed HeartMath coach, a member of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine, and a Yoga Alliance certified yoga and pranayama teacher.
He has sat with people in the most acute moments of psychological crisis and in the quietest moments of personal reinvention. He brings both to this work. The Wellness Alchemist Workbook — the foundation of this programme — is the distillation of that lifetime of practice.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
Format: One-to-one coaching, online or in person
Duration: Three months
Sessions: Bi-weekly, 60 minutes per session (6 sessions total)
Between sessions: Workbook exercises, daily practice, email support
Workbook: The Wellness Alchemist Workbook included
Month One — Understand: Getting to the Root
What is actually driving this, beneath the surface
Most people have been managing the symptoms for so long they have forgotten there is a root. The first month slows everything down enough to find it. Drawing on lifestyle psychiatry assessment, HeartMath coherence tools, and the opening Sutras of Patanjali, we build a clear picture of what is actually happening in your body, your mind, and your daily life—not a diagnosis, but an honest map. You cannot change what you cannot clearly see.
What shifts this month: clarity. You will know, perhaps for the first time, what you are actually dealing with and why the previous attempts at fixing it did not hold.
Between sessions: Workbook chapters 1–9, daily Aum and breathwork practice, lifestyle audit.
Month Two — Regulate: Settling the System
Building the physiological conditions for real change
Understanding the root is necessary but not sufficient. The nervous system that has been running on stress for years needs to be retrained, not just understood. This month works directly with the body — pranayama, HeartMath heart-coherence practice, sleep, movement, and nutrition as clinical tools — alongside the Sutra teachings on sustained practice and non-attachment. Many clients describe this as the month where something tangible and physical shifts for the first time.
What shifts this month: stability. A quieter body, better sleep, more energy, and the physiological ground on which the deeper change can actually land.
Between sessions: Workbook chapters 10–18, HeartMath Inner Balance practice, personalised lifestyle protocol.
Month Three — Transform: Living the Change
Making it real, making it yours, making it last
With the root visible and the system steadier, this is where the specific life problem you came with gets worked on directly — relationships, purpose, identity, career, health, or simply the sense that something is missing. Drawing on NLP, motivational interviewing, and the final Sutras on discrimination, surrender, and liberation, we do the focused work and then build the daily practice that will sustain it long after the programme ends. You leave equipped, not dependent.
What shifts this month: direction. A clear, personalised daily practice, a concrete sense of what has changed, and the tools to keep it moving.
Between sessions: Workbook chapters 19–27, personal practice design, closing reflection and integration.
FEE STRUCTURE
Full Three-Month Programme
6 sessions × 60 minutes, workbook included, email support between sessions
Payment OptionInvestmentPay in full £1,200
Two installments: £630 × 2 (£1,260)
Monthly payment plan£220 × 3 (£660)
VIP Intensive Option
For those who want to move faster—weekly sessions instead of bi-weekly, with unlimited WhatsApp voice note support between sessions.
Payment OptionInvestmentPay in full £1,800
Monthly payment plan: £630 × 3 (£1,890)
Discovery Call
30 minutes, complimentary — no obligation, just a conversation
All options include a copy of The Wellness Alchemist Workbook. In-person sessions available in London. All other sessions delivered via video call.
Clarity costs nothing. The call is free. The change is not, but it is worth considerably more than it costs.
Why We Exist
Because late-night Web searches and fad diets aren’t working. We translate evidence-based health science into everyday moves you’ll actually keep.
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