Dr. Thomas Dannhauser,  founded Smart Start Minds in 2013 to make mental health treatment more precise, faster and easier for patients around the UK.

He is a consultant psychiatrist with over 25 years of experience. With his extensive experience in neuropsychiatry and research, he practices precision psychiatry, providing evidence-based and cutting-edge assessments and treatments to prevent, cure, and treat his patients’ mental health problems.

His areas of expertise include anxiety, depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, stress, PTSD, OCD, emotional regulation/mood, cognitive problems, neuropsychiatry, and mental health genome analysis.

In 2005, Dr Dannhauser became a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists London and went on to obtain his PhD using functional brain imaging at the Institute of Psychiatry (Maudsley) and University College London in 2011, where he was then appointed honorary senior lecturer in psychiatry.

In 2022 he started the Mindfit.clinic providing online ADHD and other accurate mental health tests for the public, increasingly used by other medical professionals. He led research and development for online assessments and innovative wearable functional NIRS brain scanning technology now commissioned for use in clinics internationally. His R&D work with neuro-technology has already helped thousands of people.  

His approach to helping patients is to rapidly determine an accurate diagnosis and establish the best-proven treatment approach. Going beyond simply treating a disorder, he works with his clients to achieve their best mental and physical health to reduce the risk of future setbacks, ultimately helping them to feel fulfilled and able to gain lasting happiness. He does this by helping them to identify and make changes to specific thoughts and habits, as well as addressing how their relationships in their professional and/or personal lives affect their emotional health. 

Dr Dannhauser has private clinic times available to professional adults or family members over 17 years of age, self-funding, or for members of major UK healthcare insurance providers.