Does something in your life feel out of control?
Understand what is really happening. Change it. Move forward with confidence.
Why trust The mind mentor?
Designed from personal experience
Starting in Shrewsbury. Supporting people and businesses worldwide
Built from lived experience, The Mind Mentor gives local professionals, leaders and business owners a different choice when overthinking, overwhelm, burnout or business pressure begins affecting their life and work.
Most people who come to me are not short of intelligence, ambition or effort.
They are capable people who have reached the point where logic alone is no longer enough.
They know what they want, yet something inside still delays, hides, overthinks or shuts down.
I help you find the pattern beneath the problem, so you can understand what is really happening and make clearer decisions moving forward, because lasting results are not built on motivation alone.
They are built on awareness, evidence, lived experience and action.
Release the fear beneath visibility.
Understand the protection beneath procrastination.
Confront the self-doubt beneath leadership.
Change the emotional rules shaping you life
Build your future on truth not perception
Human-Led Change designed for Transformation
I was living and working locally in Shrewsbury when I reached a point where life looked fine on the outside, but privately I was in a very dark place, as a serving police officer I knew
support existed, but I could not find the kind of local service that answered the question I was asking:
Why do I feel this way, and what will actually help me move forward?
That experience shaped Make Your Life Count and later The Mind Mentor, because I wanted to create a different choice for local professionals, business owners and leaders who are capable, responsible and used to carrying pressure, but know something needs to change.
This is not about repeatedly going over the same issue. It is about understanding what is driving the pattern, making clearer decisions and creating practical change in your life and work.
Based in Shrewsbury, I work with people across Shropshire, Welshpool, Oswestry, Wrexham, Chester and Cheshire, as well as clients online throughout the UK and Internationally both in-person and online.
Finding a professional locally away from the big cities can often be difficult, so when local professionals and business owners are under pressure, the impact rarely stops with them.
It can affect their health, families, teams, decisions and the future of the businesses they have worked hard to build. Creating a different kind of local support, that offers real word solutions, means people can address overthinking, overwhelm, burnout and self-doubt before those patterns begin affecting every part of their life and work.
The wider benefit is stronger people, healthier workplaces and more resilient local businesses. I am passionate about ensure the people and the communities where I live are supported, because when I support them, and they support me, I can help others.
When local people are stronger, local businesses and communities benefit too.
A different local choice for either in-person or online.
Mind Mentoring helps close the gap between where you are and where you want to be through experience, not just theory. Close the gap and choose your local specialist today.
It is a human-led approach that combines neuropsychology, hypnotherapy, subconscious pattern work, emotional insight, practical action and grounded meaning.
As a result you can understand why you feel stuck, build safety around change, and start moving differently.
If you want more confidence, clarity, visibility, self-trust, emotional freedom and stronger self-leadership, this work helps you identify what is really holding you back and take practical steps towards the version of you that no longer needs to hide.
No hype. No miracle claims. No one-size-fits-all method.
Just honest, grounded transformation, based on real science and real experience
Ask yourself these questions:
Why do I feel this way when logically I shouldn't?
How can I allow myself to make that first step, to feel secure enough to believe change is possible?
What do I need right now to move forward and start changing my life and situation?
In just 30 minutes on a FREE Clarity call I can provide those answers - The next step is up to you (Nothing changes, if nothing changes)
OUR SERVICES
Getting Started - Build With Confidence
Taking Off The Mask Webinar - FREE
In this webinar I introduce you to the core concepts of how you make real long lasting change, and then through an immersive experience, I'll show you what change might feel like.
Many people express a sense of inner peace, clarity and hope, 75% of people book that first clarity call afterwards, because they don't just get information, they feel possibility.
The Truth About You - £27
(Save £97 with Code LQQ2CZ2)
This 60 minute practical course explains the science behind what my clients experience, as well as how that links to the more spiritual side of being a human.
Unlike the webinar, this course gives you real, simple and practical tools to start looking at your situation in a very different and immersive way.
1. Jargon free videos
2. Supportive text to support your learning
3. Audio downloads to practice the techniques
4. Demonstrations with a real client, so you can see the results in real time
5. Whats App Support Group to answer any questions.
Many people say these techniques help them feel calmer, clearer and more in control when practised consistently.
Power Hour - £97 (Save 50% when you add this to a FREE Consultation)
Just £47 when added to your Free Consultation
I offer a free no obligation 30 minute call, but why not upgrade and extend that call to get the following:
1. Experience realtime change, plus get the Truth About You Course FREE, when you book the Power Hour.
2. Save 50% if you add the Power hour onto your free call for £47
Total Value - £124 for only £47 (Total saving of 62%)
Plus if you onboard to one of my Fully Supported Packages I will deduct this from your package if you book within 24 hours of our call.
Whether it's the 30 minute FREE Consultation or the extended Power Hour, click the link below to book now.
Power Hour is available post Free Consultation but will return to the £97 and excludes the Truth About You Course
Fully Supported Packages Designed For You - From £347
Whether you are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, distracted, low in confidence or ready for a deeper personal transformation, your first step is a Clarity Call.
This is where we look at what is really going on, what you want to change, and which route is the best fit for your time, budget and goals.
You may need a starter course to build self-awareness.
A focused 1:1 deep dive or
A longer-term transformation programme with structured support and integration.
The aim is simple: to help you understand the pattern behind the problem, create clarity, and begin moving forward with more confidence, self-trust and direction.
Conditions and Offers vary on package type, please book your FREE Consultation to find out more
Local Case Studies
From self-doubt to clearer decisions - A business owner who appeared confident but privately questioned every decision began to understand what was driving the pattern and rebuilt trust in his own judgement.
Read Andy’s story....
Calmer, more confident - Julia Cork describes how business and life where getting impacted by her anxiety and after one session she was better able to respond when difficult situations appeared.
Read Julia’s story....
Personal and Business Transformation for Individuals - From £647
Many professionals, founders and business owners, do not struggle because they lack strategy. They struggle because something internal is affecting how they lead, communicate, make decisions, show up, sell, delegate or trust themselves, this not only impacts work but also life in general.
This work helps you align with what you do best, whether you are a business owner, founder or employee, you want to perform at your best, and lead in a way that feels clear, confident and authentic.
For some, that means becoming more visible. For others, it means building stronger teams, becoming a more empowered leader, communicating with more authority, or creating greater impact without burning out.
This is for mission-led leaders, founders, entrepreneurs, executives and professionals who want something deeper than dry business mentoring, leadership training or performance coaching. This work is about integrating you work and life, so it doesn't feel like you have to choose.
Available as 1:1 mentoring or as part of a corporate transformation package, this work can help you move yourself, your life and your business forward with more clarity, confidence and purpose.
Marcus is the Mentoring Psychology Lead for National Mentoring Day
Specialisms and Further Information
Specialist in Neurodiversity
I spent most of my life wondering why I didn't fit into the version of the world I was told was “normal”.
That pressure eventually led me to a breaking point and as a serving police officer who just wanted to end it all. What I later discovered was, that I wasn't broken. I simply saw, processed and experienced the world differently.
Now I use that lived experience, alongside professional training and years of client work, to help other people understand their own mind with more compassion, clarity and control.
This work is for neurodivergent professionals, high-masking adults, ADHD professionals, autistic professionals, business owners and leaders who have spent years adapting, masking, overthinking, people-pleasing or pushing through.
The focus is not on fixing who you are. It is about helping you work with your mind, not against it, so you can
Reduce internal friction
Understand your patterns
Communicate more clearly
Turn down the noise
and build a life that fits the way you are actually wired.
Be Heard
Many professionals are excellent at what they do, but when it comes to speaking publicly, promoting themselves or being visible, they assume the problem is confidence or imposter syndrome.
Often, it is not. It is a lack of clarity, safety and connection.
You may know your subject, but if your mind is focused on being judged, getting it wrong or not being good enough, your message becomes trapped behind pressure.
This work helps you create the right internal and external environment to speak clearly, confidently and with impact.
Whether you need to deliver a 60 second business pitch, speak up in meetings, present to clients, record video content, promote yourself online, step onto an international keynote stage, or just feel heard in life, the aim is not just to help you speak.
It's to help you become confident and powerful when you communicate.
This is for professionals, leaders, business owners, speakers and public-facing professionals, who want to overcome the fear of being seen, improve their communication and show up with more presence.
Personal Transformation & Life Direction
Sometimes the issue is not one single problem, so why have a single solution or approach?
You may be successful, capable and functioning, but still feel disconnected, frustrated, restless or unsure what comes next.
You might be asking bigger questions around purpose, meaning, identity, relationships, career, confidence or the future you actually want to create.
This work helps you slow down, understand what is driving the internal conflict, change the patterns and reconnect with the version of you that feels clearer, calmer and more aligned.
It brings together practical psychology, neuropsychology-informed insight, psychodynamic understanding, subconscious pattern work, mentoring and grounded spirituality.
The focus is on helping you move from coping to clarity, and from self-protection to self-trust.
Make Your Life Count Ltd
The Mind Mentor is part of Make Your Life Count Ltd, founded by Marcus Matthews.
Based near Oswestry on the Shropshire–Mid Wales border, The Mind Mentor provides clinical hypnotherapy, coaching and specialist mentoring in Shrewsbury and online throughout the UK.
Marcus is registered with the General Hypnotherapy Register and the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council, and is an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Information on this website is provided for general guidance. A consultation is required to determine whether a service is appropriate for you.
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If you are suffering from severe mental health issues and need immediate support please call the emergency services on 999 if in the UK
or contact appropriate support services such as the samaritans on 116 123.