MHM Executive
Private therapeutic counsel for people carrying consequential responsibility
Clearer decisions. Steadier leadership. A life capable of sustaining success.
MHM Executive is a confidential, one-to-one psychological and executive performance partnership for founders, CEOs, board directors, senior professionals and other people carrying exceptional levels of responsibility.
It is personally delivered by Gareth Strangemore-Jones, Founder, CEO and Clinical Lead of Mental Health Matrix.
This is not a generic coaching programme, a collection of pre-recorded lessons or conventional weekly therapy confined to a single presenting problem. It is a highly personalised working relationship encompassing psychological wellbeing, leadership performance and the private life behind the role.
The reality at the top
Who supports the person everyone else relies on?
At a certain level of leadership, there are fewer places where you can speak completely freely.
Your board may need confidence. Your investors expect answers. Your team looks to you for direction. Your family may already be carrying the effects of the pressure. Even trusted colleagues cannot always be entirely independent.
These issues rarely fit neatly into "personal" or "professional" boxes. A difficult commercial decision can affect sleep. Poor sleep can impair judgement. Leadership conflict can follow you home. Private distress can gradually alter how you communicate, decide and lead.
MHM Executive gives you one completely confidential place in which the whole picture can be understood.
You may continue to perform outwardly while privately experiencing:
- relentless mental pressure
- difficulty switching off
- disrupted sleep or depleted energy
- anxiety, irritability or low mood
- reduced focus or decision fatigue
- founder or executive isolation
- conflict with a board, co-founder or senior colleague
- relationship or family strain
- uncertainty about the next phase of your career or life
- the uncomfortable sense that success is costing more than it should
A different kind of support
More than executive coaching. More flexible than conventional therapy.
High-performing people do not generally need to be told to work harder, think positively or become more ambitious. They may need an experienced, independent person who can help them:
The work may draw upon psychotherapy, solution-focused practice, clinical hypnotherapy, mindfulness, neuroscience, coaching and practical behavioural change.
You do not need to arrive knowing which approach you require. The work is built around you, your circumstances and what you want to change.
The flagship engagement
The MHM Executive Reset
A 90-day private partnership
The Executive Reset is an intensive 90-day engagement designed to help you regain clarity, stability and sustainable performance without requiring you to step away from the responsibilities you carry.
Over 90 days, we examine the complete system surrounding your performance: psychological health, sleep, emotional regulation, decision-making, leadership, relationships, identity, working patterns and recovery.
The objective is not simply to help you feel better temporarily. It is to create a personal operating system that enables you to think more clearly, lead more deliberately and recognise pressure before it becomes impairment.
The MHM Executive Method
Map
We begin by understanding the person, the role and the pressures surrounding both. This includes your current responsibilities, psychological wellbeing, sleep and recovery, working patterns, important relationships, leadership challenges, sources of conflict and any significant personal or professional transition. The result is your confidential Executive Matrix: a clear view of what is helping you, what is depleting you and where meaningful change will have the greatest effect.
Stabilise
Where pressure has begun to affect sleep, anxiety, mood, confidence, concentration or emotional regulation, we work first to restore stability. You will develop practical methods for regulating pressure, reducing mental overload, improving recovery and responding more proportionately when the stakes are high.
Strengthen
Once greater stability is established, the work moves towards stronger performance. This may include decision-making, focus, delegation, boundaries, difficult conversations, leadership relationships, confidence, conflict, identity and the ability to remain psychologically steady without becoming emotionally detached.
Sustain
The final phase turns progress into a sustainable personal system. Together, we identify your early warning signs, protective practices, decision principles, support structure and continuing priorities. You leave with a clear Personal Operating Plan rather than a collection of disconnected insights.
What your 90-day partnership includes
Initial private assessment
- A confidential 30-minute suitability consultation with Gareth.
- Two 90-minute Executive Matrix sessions.
- A whole-person assessment of psychological wellbeing, performance, sleep, relationships, leadership pressures and current priorities.
- Carefully selected clinical measures where appropriate.
- A defined set of personal outcomes for the 90-day engagement.
Continuing one-to-one work
- Ten weekly 75-minute private sessions.
- Live online sessions arranged around your location and time zone.
- A personalised therapeutic and performance plan.
- Two short tactical calls each month for important decisions or periods of heightened pressure.
- Secure between-session messaging on working days, within agreed professional boundaries.
Personalised MHM support
- Personally selected Mental Health Matrix courses, articles and resources.
- Up to three bespoke mindfulness, clinical hypnotherapy or psychological rehearsal recordings.
- Practical exercises and reflection work selected for your circumstances.
- Progress monitoring without unnecessary administration or generic homework.
Relationships and the wider system
- Where appropriate, one separately agreed session with a partner or family member.
- Never used to report on your private work.
- A carefully contained opportunity to address shared pressures, communication, boundaries or the impact of leadership responsibilities on life outside work.
Completion and continuation
- A final two-hour review and forward-strategy session.
- Your confidential Personal Operating Plan.
- A clear view of progress, remaining risks and future priorities.
- The option to conclude independently or apply for a continuing MHM Executive Partnership.
Is this you?
Who MHM Executive is for
MHM Executive may be particularly valuable if you are:
You do not need a diagnosis, and you do not need to consider yourself mentally unwell. Many clients seek support precisely because they want to act before an avoidable problem becomes a personal, clinical or commercial crisis.
Your counsel
Personally delivered by Gareth Strangemore-Jones
Gareth is the Founder, CEO and Clinical Lead of Mental Health Matrix.
He is a Clinical Psychotherapist, Pluralistic Counsellor, Solution Focused Clinical Hypnotherapist, Psychotherapeutic Life Coach and Mindfulness Teacher.
His background also encompasses corporate communications, marketing, journalism, broadcasting, teaching and business development. This allows the work to consider both the psychological reality of the person and the commercial reality in which they are operating.
Gareth's approach is warm, direct, evidence-led and non-directive.
His role is not to turn you into a version of him or tell you what you should believe. It is to help you think more clearly, recognise patterns, consider alternatives and make decisions that remain genuinely your own.
Professional memberships and registrations include the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council, the National Council for Hypnotherapy and the Association for Solution Focused Hypnotherapy.
Discretion by design
Privacy without organisational politics
Confidentiality is central to MHM Executive.
Your sessions are not reported to your board, employer, investors, colleagues, family office or professional advisers.
If an organisation funds the engagement, the boundaries are agreed clearly at the beginning. Unless you expressly authorise otherwise, the sponsoring organisation may receive confirmation of engagement and agreed administrative information, but not the content of your sessions.
Any proposed sharing of information is discussed with you in advance and requires your informed agreement, except where disclosure is legally required or necessary to address a serious and immediate risk of harm.
Sessions are not routinely recorded. Sensitive personal and clinical information is not placed within ordinary marketing or sales records.
Where we work
Work with Gareth online or in person
Most MHM Executive clients work with Gareth through live, secure online sessions. This provides continuity across demanding schedules, international travel and different time zones.
In-person sessions and private intensives can also be arranged in the UK or internationally. These may take place at your home, office, hotel, private members' club or another suitably private venue.
International and in-person engagements are subject to professional, insurance and jurisdictional requirements. Travel time, travel, appropriate accommodation, transfers, venue costs and reasonable subsistence are quoted separately and agreed in advance.
Transparent from the outset
Your investment
The 90-day Executive Reset
£7,500
plus VAT
- £7,500 plus VAT paid in full; or
- three monthly payments of £2,750 plus VAT, totalling £8,250 plus VAT.
The engagement can be funded personally, through a company, by an employer or through a family office, subject to appropriate contracting and confidentiality arrangements.
Private in-person intensives
- £8,500 plus VATOne full in-person day
- £15,000 plus VATTwo consecutive in-person days
Travel time and associated expenses are quoted separately.
Continuing private partnership
- £12,000Six months, plus VAT paid upfront, or six monthly payments of £2,200 plus VAT, totalling £13,200 plus VAT.
- £21,000Twelve months, plus VAT paid upfront, or twelve monthly payments of £1,925 plus VAT, totalling £23,100 plus VAT.
Available by mutual agreement after the initial 90-day engagement.
MHM Executive accepts only a limited number of clients at any one time so that every engagement remains genuinely personal.
Questions, answered plainly
Frequently asked questions
The first step
Begin with a private conversation
You do not need to disclose your complete personal history in an application form or explain sensitive matters to a salesperson.
The first step is a brief application to establish whether the service appears broadly appropriate. If so, you will be invited to a confidential consultation before any final commitment is accepted.
During that consultation, you can ask questions, discuss what has brought you to MHM Private and decide whether Gareth is the right person to work with.
No engagement is accepted unless both you and Gareth believe that the working relationship is appropriate.
To book a discovery call directly, click here.
Application
Apply for a private consultation
Please provide only the information needed to arrange an initial conversation. Sensitive personal or clinical information can be discussed privately with Gareth if your application progresses.