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Counsellingo.com: A new professional directory of over a thousand self-employed online counsellors in the UK

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There are thousands of self-employed counsellors in the UK who provide therapy services online using standard video calling apps, such as Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, and WhatsApp

BRIGHTON, England, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Counsellingo.com is a new professional directory of over a thousand of them, recently launched by ‘dot com’ pioneer John Witney.

Witney was the co-founder of the world’s first internet recruitment service, JobServe, back in 1994. In 2000 JobServe was top of the Sunday Times Profit Track 100 league table, and in 2001 JobServe was the first ‘dot com’ business to receive a Queen’s Award for Enterprise.

Availability Matters

According to Witney, who is now a practising counsellor himself, the biggest complaint when looking for a therapist is finding one who is actually available: “Anyone who has ever tried to find a therapist knows that this is an incredibly frustrating part of the process. You invest your time and energy, carefully perusing hundreds of therapists’ profiles and websites, and then you finally muster up the courage to contact two or three that you like the look of, only then to find out that they do not have any availability, or even worse, that they do not reply to your enquiry.”

Counsellingo checks the current availability of every therapist on a weekly basis to ensure that it is always accurate, and that they genuinely do want to receive enquiries. Surprisingly, Counsellingo is the only counselling directory that does this.

Professional Standards

“Another big concern is how do I know that the therapist I have chosen is properly trained and experienced,” Witney continues.

Counselling is not a regulated profession, however, there is an independent organisation that protects the public and is accountable to the UK parliament. The organisation is the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care, also known as the PSA.

The PSA has accredited twelve professional registers for the counselling profession. These registers are maintained by professional membership organisations such as the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS), and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). The organisations and their registers are audited annually by the PSA.

“Every Counsellingo therapist’s profile includes a link to their professional register, so that you can verify their status for yourself, and we manually re-check every therapist’s registration annually. Again, Counsellingo is the only counselling directory that does this.”

Data Privacy

“And finally,” Witney adds, “with online counselling services there are always questions about confidentiality and personal data privacy.”

Platforms such as BetterHelp refer to clients as ‘members’, and they collect, retain, and share, their members’ personal data. Just last year, BetterHelp was fined $7.8m for sharing sensitive personal data.

“Counsellingo, is not a platform or an intermediary. Your relationship with your therapist is confidential and direct. We are not a third-party, and we do not have access to, nor do we collect, any client data.”

Check it out for yourself at: www.counsellingo.com.

About the Founder

John Witney, 59, has been a practising counsellor for over fifteen years. He has a BA (Hons) Degree in Counselling and is a registered member of the BACP. He works with clients at his private practice in Brighton, East Sussex, and online via Zoom.

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Founder & Director, Counsellingo Ltd.
john@witney.com
+44 (0)7770 666666

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Kuailu Meeting Major Upgrade: Full-Link AI “Presence” Makes Cross-Border, Bilingual, and Hosted Meetings Effortless

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HONG KONG, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — In today’s business landscape—where global collaboration and hybrid work have become standard practice—corporate meetings frequently face challenges such as cross-border language barriers, time zone conflicts, lost information, and post-meeting execution gaps. Kuailu Technology, an enterprise AI intelligent office solution provider, has officially unveiled the upgraded Kuailu Meeting. Centered around the concept of “Full-Link AI Presence,” the platform delivers intelligent transformation across every phase—pre-meeting, in-meeting, and post-meeting—making cross-border collaboration, bilingual communication, and meeting hosting completely seamless.

1. Say Goodbye to Inefficiency with One Command: Full-Link AI Redefines the Meeting Experience

Traditional video conferencing systems often provide only basic connectivity. Kuailu Meeting deeply embeds proprietary AI capabilities throughout the entire lifecycle of a meeting:

Pre-Meeting (Zero Time Wasted) | One-Command Scheduling: Eliminates cumbersome calendar bookings and manual invite processes. Users can simply issue a voice or text command (e.g., “Schedule my weekly team meeting for tomorrow at 3 PM”), and the AI automatically configures meeting parameters, invites attendees, and manages cross-time-zone notifications.

In-Meeting (Zero Details Missed) | Real-Time Bilingual Subtitles & AI Hosting:Real-Time Bilingual Subtitles & Smart Error Correction: Supports real-time multi-language translation and high-precision speech recognition, tailored for cross-border meetings and international business negotiations to break down language barriers.Digital Avatar (AI Twin): When urgent matters, temporary departures, or time zone conflicts arise, participants can deploy a digital avatar to attend on their behalf. The avatar captures the core points of discussions during their absence, achieving true multi-tasking presence.

Post-Meeting (Zero Effort Required) | Automated Minutes & Action Item Loop in 1 Minute: Leveraging voiceprint recognition and speaker separation technology (accurately identifying who said what and when), the AI generates key takeaways and executive summaries within one minute post-meeting. It also automatically dispatches decision items as actionable tasks, closing the execution loop.

2. Unlocking 3 Core Scenarios: Seamless Connections for Cross-Border, Bilingual, and Hosted Meetings

Kuailu Meeting delivers tailored solutions for the most challenging communication environments:

1. Cross-Border Business Meetings: Eliminating Language Barriers

Pain Point: Misinterpretation of technical terminology and high costs of live translation in multinational teams.

Solution: Real-time multi-language recognition and domain-specific error correction make cross-border decision-making as smooth as face-to-face communication.

2. Multi-Party Bilingual Meetings: Precision Voiceprint Recording

Pain Point: Difficulty attributing specific arguments to individual speakers during fast-paced, multi-person discussions.

Solution: Voiceprint identification and speaker separation technology precisely attribute core points to individual speakers, outputting a clear, structured dialogue transcript.

3. Smart Hosted Meetings: Ultra-Flexible “Digital Avatar Presence”

Pain Point: Overlapping schedules or last-minute emergencies that prevent full physical attendance.

Solution: Enable AI Hosting and Digital Avatar attendance to automatically capture key topics and trace action points, ensuring decision-making continuity.

3. Core Technical Capabilities: Low-Bandwidth HD & Private Secure Deployment

Beyond its flagship AI features, Kuailu Meeting exhibits robust engineering in underlying communications and security architecture:

Low-Bandwidth HD Technology (1080P at 600Kbps): Utilizing pixel-level AI restoration, layered encoding, and anti-packet-loss algorithms, the system delivers smooth, ultra-HD video even during travel, in remote locations, or under fluctuating network conditions.Flexible Deployment & Data Sovereignty: Supports both SaaS and enterprise private deployment, ensuring full corporate control over meeting data assets and communication privacy, meeting strict compliance standards in sectors like finance and energy.

4. Returning Meetings to Their Core Purpose: Driving Decisions

The Kuailu Technology team stated: “Meetings should not be an exhausting burden on employees, but rather the decision-making engine that drives business forward. Through ‘Full-Link AI Presence,’ Kuailu Meeting saves teams time on scheduling and note-taking while ensuring that every meeting produces traceable, actionable results.”

Kuailu Meeting is now open for product trials and enterprise private deployment requests. For more information, please visit Kuailu Technology’s official website (www.kuailutech.com).

About Kuailu Technology

Kuailu Technology is committed to reshaping enterprise productivity through AI technology and a unified data foundation. Its flagship product portfolio includes the enterprise AI work partner platform KuWork, Kuailu AI HR Management, and Kuailu Meeting, empowering organizations worldwide to achieve efficient and intelligent digital transformation.

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Metanoia, Aethertek, and TechPhosis Team Up to Drive 6G FR3 Technology in India

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NEW DELHI, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Aligned with the Make-in-India, Design-in-India, and Integrate-in-India initiatives, Metanoia and Aethertek announced a strategic collaboration with TechPhosis to develop and commercialize 5G FR2 and next-generation 6G FR3 solutions across India’s growing telecommunications market.

The initiative integrates the Metanoia-Aethertek Albizia FR2/FR3 radio with TechPhosis’s 5G Core (5GC) and Distributed Unit (DU) platforms, establishing resilient, open-architecture private and public cellular networks throughout the region.

“To support India’s 6G ambitions, we are proud to launch one of the first 6G radios with Metanoia and Aethertek Albizia FR2/FR3 radio platform. Metanoia’s MOSART software empowers early 6G FR3 researchers to build customized solutions,” said Ritesh Aggarwal, CEO of TechPhosis.

Advancing Open Standards: O-RAN WG7 and MOSART
A pivotal component of this initiative is Metanoia’s introduction of MOSART (Metanoia Open Source Advanced Radio Technology) software, running on O-RAN Alliance Working Group 7 (WG7) white-box radio hardware architectures. Available on GitLab, MOSART natively supports standard WG7 platforms, including 24dBm indoor, 5W outdoor, and FR2/FR3 50dBm outdoor radio units.

WG7 specifications enable open radio hardware design to lower development costs, while MOSART provides equipment builders, system integrators, and operators a solid baseline to customize without proprietary vendor lock-in.

“Coupling O-RAN WG7 hardware with our MOSART software commercializes open radio platforms. Alongside partners like SERA Network, Aethertek and TechPhosis, we are creating a practical path from 5G FR2 today to 6G FR3 tomorrow,” said Stewart Wu, CEO of Metanoia.

Partnering with Aethertek for Albizia FR2/FR3
Metanoia and Aethertek partnered to develop the Albizia FR2/FR3 radio platform, combining Metanoia’s Cobra MT2824 SoC baseband chip with Aethertek’s NOVA Antenna-in-Module (AiM).

This modular beamforming architecture streamlines the migration toward FR3 spectrum, enabling Indian operators to validate high-capacity, low-latency 5G-Advanced and pioneer early 6G deployments with proven RF efficiency.

“This collaboration strengthens our shared ability to deliver next-generation O-RUs with validated beamforming and RF performance,” said Perry Lin, Director of Business Development at Aethertek. “Working together with Metanoia and TechPhosis ensures we can accelerate customer deployments and commercialize advanced radio platforms with confidence.”

Commercial FR1 and FR2 radios Powered by Metanoia Cobra MT2824 SoC
At the foundation of these high-performance open radios is Metanoia’s Cobra MT2824 Digital Front End (DFE) SoC. Delivering power efficiency, compact dimensions, and versatility, the Cobra MT2824 powers multiple commercialized ORU products deployed across enterprise and carrier networks.

“SERA Network is proud to be first to market with Metanoia Cobra MT2824-based FR-1 ORU products,” said Jerry Chien, CEO of SERA Network. “Our 24dBm and 5W units lead in power and size, and MOSART open-source software allows our radios to serve as extensible platforms meeting unique customer requirements.”

By uniting Metanoia’s Cobra MT2824 silicon, Aethertek’s FR2/FR3 AiM modules, and TechPhosis’s DU and 5G core stacks, the partners deliver an open ecosystem ready for 5G and 6G development.

Please come to India Mobile Congress Hall 1 BP 18 to explore MOSART powered ORUs: Albizia FR2/FR3 radio, SERA 24dBm and 5W FR1 radios.

About Metanoia

Metanoia Communications Inc. specializes in Software Defined Radio (SDR) and 5G/B5G PHY semiconductor solutions for Open RAN Radio Units and Small Cells. Powered by its proprietary MOSART® platform, its programmable baseband and RF SoCs support 4T4R FR1 and 2T2R FR2 architectures, ensuring full compliance with evolving 3GPP and O-RAN standards.

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Prospera Financial Services Adds Experienced Advisor to Expanding Platform

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St. Pete Beach, Florida-Based John Farren Joins National Boutique Firm for Technology, Personalized Support and Flexibility

DALLAS, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Prospera Financial Services, Inc. (“Prospera”), a boutique wealth management firm supporting a nationwide network of independent advisors, today announced that wealth manager John Farren of St. Pete Beach, Florida, has joined its growing national platform and footprint.

Farren is Managing Director of Farren Private Wealth and has more than three decades of experience advising high-net-worth individuals, institutional clients and business owners. He has helped individuals and families with retirement planning, 401(k) rollovers, 72(t) distribution strategies and custom portfolio construction. He earned a designation through the Private Investment Management (PIM) program, which is a specialized credential program for financial advisors who can make discretionary investment decisions on behalf of clients.

“After my time at larger firms, I was drawn to Prospera’s scale and personalized support,” Farren said. “I was looking for the right balance of flexibility and resources, with incredible back office support, that enable me to deliver the exceptional service my clients deserve, and Prospera has a reputation for empowering advisors to exceed expectations.”

Tarah Williams, Prospera’s president and chief operating officer, added, “John’s decades of experience, proven track record and dedication to client service make him a natural fit for Prospera’s culture. He has built trust with his clients the same way we do with our advisors by meeting their evolving needs in a changing industry. Prospera is proud to provide the resources and support to help John continue to grow.”

Farren is the latest advisor this year to join Prospera, which supports 230 independent financial advisors and more than $30 billion in client assets. As the firm continues to grow, it remains committed to maintaining a 2.5:1 advisor-to-home-office staff ratio, ensuring advisors receive the personalized service, accessibility and resources that define Prospera’s boutique approach.

About Prospera Financial Services
Founded in 1982, Prospera Financial Services, Member FINRA/SIPC and a Registered Investment Adviser, is a boutique independent broker-dealer headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Built by advisors for advisors, Prospera combines a service-driven culture with the flexibility, independence, and resources needed to help financial professionals grow their businesses and better serve their clients. The firm supports independent financial advisors nationwide through personalized support, innovative solutions, and strategic clearing and custodial relationships. For more information, visit www.prosperafinancial.com.

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