About
Winnie Akadjo is the founder of Aeli Health, a clinical workflow that makes a client's between-session use visible, interpretable, and actionable for their behavioural therapist, allowing them to identify and target where mood worsens, engagement drops, and dropout begins.
She combines a decade of experience in high-growth start-ups, such as Zipcar, Groupon, TikTok, FARFETCH and Founders Factory, with a bachelor's degree in Journalism and an incoming MSc in Psychology. As a member of the British Psychological Society, Winnie has designed a CPD that delivers practical tools on the use of AI in clinical settings for behavioural therapists, grounded in WHO, NICE, BPS and BACP guidance.
Winnie has lived experience of the gaps in mental health care. Having navigated the mental health system first-hand, she understands the gaps of continuity, support, and accessibility between therapy sessions, which AI can help solve. She builds at the intersection of AI, ethics and human connection, and is a faith-driven founder with lived experience of resilience.
Sessions
The Client in the AI Conversation: What Therapists Need to See
More people than ever are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support. Not instead of therapy, but alongside it, between sessions, and often without their therapist's knowledge. For practitioners this creates a new and largely invisible dynamic. An AI has been part of your client's week, and you have no visibility into what it said. Winnie introduces the Intelligence Bridge Framework, a three-step model for practitioners. Understand the AI landscape and how clients are actually using it. Govern that use against WHO, NICE, BPS and BACP standards. Implement AI tools in practice without compromising the therapeutic relationship. The session draws on real clinical scenarios and current research, including Hewitt et al.'s 2024 silicon samples study, and comes with a resource pack of consent template language, intake questions and a glossary of AI terms for practitioners.
What you'll take away
- Ask structured questions at intake to assess how and why clients are using AI between sessions
- Apply the WHO, NICE, BPS and BACP ethical frameworks to your own clinical context
- Introduce AI notetaker tools safely, with appropriate consent and data governance
- Use the Intelligence Bridge Framework to keep therapeutic leadership when clients are also using AI
- Identify the 10 key risks of AI in mental health care, and proportionate steps to mitigate them