Gradual discontinuation support

Come off your medication at a pace your nervous system can actually keep up with.

One-to-one coaching for gradual medication tapering, built on the Maudsley deprescribing model — with a printable taper proposal you can bring to your prescriber for their review.

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Each reduction is a percentage of your current dose, not the starting dose — so the steps get smaller as you go, matching how receptor occupancy actually responds. Every plan is paced and reviewed with you, one step at a time.
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How coaching works

A plan first, then a person to pace it with you

Four sessions of work, not four boxes to tick — this is the actual order a taper gets built and lived in.

01

Free intro call

20 minutes to talk through your current medication, dose, history, and what "too fast" has felt like before.

02

Taper plan proposal

A hyperbolic or micro-tapering schedule — whichever suits your medication, formulation and sensitivity — laid out clearly enough to bring to a GP or psychiatrist for their review.

03

Ongoing coaching

Regular check-ins between reductions to track symptoms, hold the pace, and work through whatever mental or physical symptoms come up mid-taper — practical coping tools alongside the medical side.

04

Handoff-ready records

Your updated plan and symptom log stay shareable throughout, so your prescriber is never working from a gap.

The wider picture

The plan isn't the whole story

Tapering well is one part of recovery. What you eat, how you move, and how you relate to difficult thoughts all shape how your nervous system copes with the process — coaching covers all three, not just the dose.

01

Nutrition

A tailored, anti-inflammatory approach to eating, built around what actually works for your gut — not a generic diet sheet.

See the eating framework (PDF) →
02

Movement

Sustainable physical activity, paced to what your nervous system can currently support — building back up gradually, not pushing through.

03

Mindfulness

Practical tools for sitting with difficult thoughts and feelings rather than being pulled around by them — meditation for some, other approaches for others.

These three, worked on consistently and in balance alongside your taper, are what most people find makes the biggest difference to how the process feels day to day.

The package

Everything sits around one document: your plan

Coaching is the support. The plan is the artifact — the thing that makes your taper legible to you and to whoever's prescribing.

Full Taper Coaching Package 1:1
  • Taper plan proposal — hyperbolic or micro-tapering, matched to your medication and formulation
  • A clean, shareable document formatted for GPs and prescribers
  • 3 coaching sessions to set the plan and support your first reductions
  • Symptom and dose tracking support between sessions
  • Coping tools for the mental and physical symptoms that can surface mid-taper — alongside your clinical care, not instead of it
  • Guidance across nutrition, movement, and mindfulness to support your nervous system through the taper
  • Plan revisions when a step needs to slow down or hold
  • Direct messaging access between sessions for pacing questions
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Full package — plan + 3 sessions£250
Ongoing sessions — 60 min£90
Ongoing sessions — 30 min£50

Two strategies, one goal: no bigger step than your body can absorb

Hyperbolic tapering — each reduction is a percentage of your current dose, so steps shrink automatically as you get lower.

Micro-tapering — smaller, more frequent reductions on a tighter interval, often used where formulation or sensitivity calls for finer control.

Which one fits is part of what we work out on the intro call.

What "shareable with prescribers" actually means

Your plan sets out the medication, formulation, current dose, proposed reduction steps, and rationale in one place — so a conversation with your GP or psychiatrist starts from a document, not a memory of a TikTok.

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What to expect

The dose comes down in a straight line. Symptoms don't.

Even on a well-paced taper, most people get "windows" of feeling steady and "waves" where symptoms flare — often for no obvious reason. That's normal, not a sign the plan has failed. Coaching is about riding out the waves without abandoning the pace.

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Who's coaching you

Coaching from someone who reads the literature and tapers his own dose

TaperWise is built on the same principles shared on @the_taper_man — deprescribing research from Horowitz, Fava, Cosci and Framer, translated into plans people can actually follow and prescribers can actually read.

This isn't medical treatment, and it doesn't replace your prescriber. It's the coaching and documentation layer that sits between you and them — so the pace is planned, tracked, and never a surprise to anyone in the room.

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No obligation — just a conversation about where you are and what a realistic plan could look like.

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