Team
Joe built Condri because he needed it, after years of health anxiety and OCD. George has spent a decade building mental health apps, after struggles of his own. Condri is his third. Karolina came to review the app and stayed, 28 years across the NHS and private practice behind her. Sofia found it as a user and offered to design for free. Sankhadeep's open-source work has 20,000 GitHub stars, and he brings the same craft here.
Joe Newton
Founder
Health anxiety and OCD
Joe started Condri after years of living with health anxiety and OCD. He knows the loop from the inside: searching symptoms, trying to get certainty from appointments and tests, finding that the relief never lasted. At its worst it was taking over his life. Condri began with a question he could not answer: why is it so hard to get help that helps? He hosts the Condri podcast, where he interviews psychiatrists, doctors, and people who have lived it.
George Punter
Co-founder, product and engineering
Builds the product
George studied engineering at Imperial College London and has spent the decade since building mental-health software. He built a bipolar self-management app, was CTO at Baseline, then Head of Product and Engineering at Sway Health, a virtual bipolar clinic in the US, where he built the telehealth stack from the ground up. Condri is his third mental-health product. He recently became a father, which he describes as a practical education in tolerating uncertainty.
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Karolina 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 28 years across the NHS and private practice, with experience in health anxiety, chronic conditions, and the mind-body relationship. She practises in London and online. She first came to Condri as an outside reviewer. As the values and the direction turned out to line up, she joined as Consultant Psychologist for Anxiety & Wellbeing, keeping the app in line with CBT, ERP, ACT and mindfulness principles. She also leads live community sessions, including guided relaxation and mindfulness-based practices, as Condri continues to evolve its focus on everyday wellbeing.
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Sankhadeep
App engineer
Builds the app experience
Sankhadeep builds the parts of Condri people feel rather than read: the interactions, the motion, the moments that make the app worth opening. His open-source work has more than 20,000 GitHub stars, and his Condri demos have gone viral on tech Reddit. He brings the same care to how the app treats the person using it.
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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.
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Pip
Condri mascot
Designed by hand
Pip is there to witness what you are going through and help you through it. Not to diagnose, overrule a doctor, or offer certainty about your body.
Our stance
Health anxiety recovery is not a trick for feeling certain. It usually means practising uncertainty 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 tracker. It is to spend less time checking, asking, avoiding, doubting, looping. Our ideal case is you will stop using Condri because you're back living your life.
Outside the team
Prof Lynne Drummondled the UK's nationally commissioned service for severe OCD and body dysmorphic disorder from 1985 to 2020, one of only a handful of such services in the country. She trained under Isaac Marks, who pioneered exposure therapy. We interviewed her about why health anxiety runs the same compulsive cycle as OCD, and what actually breaks it.
She is now writing a health anxiety book with Joe and Laura J. Edwards. The publishers aren't convinced the market is big enough yet. We think they're wrong about that.
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.