Team
A founder who has lived with health anxiety, OCD, and ADHD. A co-founder who has bipolar and is a perfectionist. A Consultant Psychologist with more than 20 years across the NHS and private practice. A volunteer designer who found Condri as a user first. An app engineer pushing what a wellness app can technically do.
The common thread is simple: make something that we are proud of.
Make something that actually helps.
Joe Newton
Founder
Health anxiety, OCD, ADHD
Joe started Condri after years with health anxiety, OCD, and ADHD. He knows the loop from the inside: searching symptoms, trying to get certainty from appointments and tests, and finding that the relief never held for long. Condri began with the question he kept running into: why are the right tools so hard to practice consistently?
George Punter
Co-founder, product and engineering
Builds the system
George had already spent years building mental-health software before Condri. He studied engineering at Imperial College London, built a bipolar app and the tech foundation for Sway Health, and lives with bipolar himself. He also brings a high dose of perfectionism to the wording, flows, and intricate product details. He holds himself to a high bar.
Check out Sway Health →
Karolina Maria Martin
Consultant Psychologist – Anxiety & Wellbeing
Keeps the app grounded
Karolina is a Consultant Psychologist, Systemic Psychotherapist, Group Analyst, and trauma specialist. She has worked for more than 20 years across the NHS and private practice, with experience in health anxiety, chronic conditions, and the mind-body relationship. She reviews Condri through the lens of clinical practice, so the app is clear what it can and cannot do.
Read Karolina's profile →
Sankhadeep
App engineer
Pushes the app further
Sankhadeep pushes the boundaries of what a wellness app can technically do: richer interactions and the next-level Condri moments that make people stop and share. His open-source work has 20,000+ GitHub stars, and his Condri demos have gone viral on tech Reddit. Not bad for a self-help wellness app.
See the Reddit post →
Sofia Lopes
Volunteer designer
Designed Pip
Sofia loved (or hated?) Condri so much that she volunteered to help us with design for free. Either way, we're happy she did. Sofia designed Pip by hand, helps shape the product, and gives George great pointers on design.
Support Sofia by buying her artwork →
Pip
Condri mascot
Designed by hand
Pip is there for warmth and continuity, not to diagnose, overrule a doctor, or offer certainty about your body. Sofia's first version of him was close to what he still is: small, soft-faced, a little worried, and never trying to be the expert in the room.
Our stance
Health anxiety recovery is not a trick for feeling certain. It usually means practising uncertainty, cutting rituals, and doing the thing anxiety tells you not to do.
A calming sentence can become another compulsion. If a feature gives short-term relief but keeps the loop alive, it does not belong in Condri.
Condri can be gentle, funny, and encouraging. It still has to nudge people toward resilience rather than checking, Googling, or asking one more person.
The goal is not to become a better symptom detective. It is to spend less time checking, asking, avoiding, doubting, looping. Our ideal user will eventually stop using Condri because they're back living their life.
The team story is one half of the story. The other half is the method: what Condri uses, who we've spoken to, and where the evidence comes from.