WHY WE EXIST
I built Anchor because I was in that gap. Struggling enough to need help. Not struggling enough for the system to help me.
I know what it feels like to call a crisis line and be told the wait is 18 weeks. To be told you're not unwell enough for services, and not well enough to cope alone. To sit with that at 2am wondering what you're supposed to do.
I'm late diagnosed ADHD. I've lived through multiple traumas. I know what it is to move through the world with a brain that works differently — and to spend years wondering why everything feels harder than it looks for everyone else, before finally getting an answer. And I know that the answer, when it finally comes, doesn't automatically make things easier. It just makes them make sense.
After that, I spent years working in mental health services — watching the same thing happen to the people I was there to support. The waitlists. The thresholds. The gap where people fall through and nobody catches them. The exhaustion of fighting for a diagnosis. The grief of trauma that never got properly acknowledged. The feeling of being too much, or not enough, for the systems designed to help you.
Wired & Well exists to build the tools that should have existed. Not to replace therapy or crisis care — but to fill the hours between needing help and getting it. To be there at 2am. To help someone find the words to reach out. To make the safety plan before the crisis hits.
Every feature in our apps was built because someone needed it — and it didn't exist. We build for the person who has been told they don't quite fit the criteria. The one waiting. The one who masks so well that nobody notices they're struggling. The late diagnosed adult who spent decades thinking they were broken. The person carrying trauma they've never had space to put down.
You are seen here. This was built for you.
The Wired & Well founder
Mental health professional · Lived experience · Building quietly