When one setback changes the way you see yourself.
Sometimes one conversation can bring clarity. Sometimes the different parts of what has happened need more time.
The Rebuild is six weeks of private coaching to help you rebuild self-trust, think more clearly and move forward with more confidence in your own judgement.
- Six weekly sessions
- 60 minutes each
- Online
- £597 in total
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- More than 20 years’ experience
- ILM Level 5 Coaching and Mentoring
- Fully insured
- Confidential one-to-one support
- Online in the UK and internationally
You’ve kept going. That’s not quite the same as trusting yourself.
From the outside you look like someone who is managing well. You are the one other people come to. Inside, it can feel rather different.
Capable on the outside
You handle what needs handling. Privately, you are far less sure of yourself than anyone around you would guess.
The conversation replay
Hours later you are still rewriting what you said, and what you think you should have said instead.
Checking before you trust it
You ask two or three people what they think before you will let yourself believe your own answer.
More than one area
Work, a relationship, the way you speak to yourself. They all seem to be connected to the same thing.
The same doubt, new situation
You can see where this is heading, because you have been here before in a completely different setting.
It was never quite there
Perhaps nothing knocked you at all. Confidence has simply never felt as settled for you as it appears in other people.
If several of those feel familiar, it usually means whatever has been happening has had time and room to settle in. That is worth taking seriously, and it responds well to being looked at properly.
A loss of confidence is not a loss of capability.
Confidence can be shaken by something specific: a relationship ending, redundancy, rejection or a change you did not choose. It can be worn down slowly by years of carrying other people. For some people it was never given the chance to settle in the first place.
None of that removes your intelligence, your strengths or your ability to make a good decision. More often it means you have been trying to find clarity from inside the same thoughts that created the confusion.
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Insight can happen in one conversation. Change tends to need longer.
Why insight alone is not always enough
Understanding why something keeps happening is a real shift, and often a relieving one. But a pattern that has been running for years rarely stops simply because you have named it. Under pressure, the familiar response is still the quickest one to reach for.
What the weeks in between are for
Six weekly sessions give you somewhere to bring what you noticed, what you tried and what actually happened. The work happens in our sessions and in what you notice and try during the week between them.
Six weeks gives us enough time to notice what is happening, try something different and build from what you learn. The aim is that, by the final session, you can point to things you have begun to do differently, not only things you now understand.
How six weeks tends to unfold
An illustration of the journey rather than a fixed weekly syllabus. The pace and the order are shaped around you. Some people move through several of these in a single session. Others spend most of the six weeks on two of them, and that is a perfectly good use of the time.
Understand
We look at what has shaped your confidence: the events, and the quieter influences that rarely get named out loud.
Notice
Where the same doubt keeps reappearing, what tends to set it off and what it costs you when it does.
Clarify
What you actually want, separated from what you assume you should want or what would be easiest for everyone else.
Practise
You try a different response in a real situation during the week, then we look together at what happened.
Strengthen
Self-trust built on evidence you have gathered yourself rather than on encouragement from me.
Continue
We consolidate what has changed and how you want to carry it forward once the six weeks are over.
What confidence can look like in ordinary life
The work may help you begin to notice changes such as…
Deciding for yourself
Making a decision without needing to poll everyone you know first.
Clearer boundaries
Saying what you need without rehearsing it for a week beforehand.
Responding, not reacting
A pause between what happens and what you choose to do about it.
Moving before certainty
Taking a step without waiting for a guarantee that was never going to arrive.
A direction that is yours
Choosing what you genuinely want rather than the version you assumed you should.
Feeling more solid
Trusting yourself to handle what comes next, rather than only feeling more positive about it.
In a client’s own words
Confidence rarely changes in one dramatic moment. More often it shows up later, when someone looks back and notices how much steadier they have become.
When I started coaching, my confidence was extremely low — I even told Mark in our first session that I wanted to leave my job. He gave me strategies to work with each week, and slowly my confidence in myself, and in my ability to do my job, changed and grew. When I look back on my coaching journey, I can’t believe where I started and how far I’ve come.
Coaching client
From written feedback about Mark’s wider coaching work. Individual experiences and outcomes will vary.
What The Rebuild includes
The £597 fee covers all six sessions. There are no additional programme tiers or compulsory extras.
- Six private 60-minute sessions
- One session each week for six weeks
- Online through Zoom, wherever you are
- Coaching shaped individually around you
- Optional clinical hypnotherapy where relevant and agreed
- A practical focus on applying insight in everyday life
What is not included?
There is no messaging or email coaching between sessions, no written report and no follow-up package after session six. The work is built around the six sessions and what you do with them in between.
The Rebuild
£597
Book my free Clarity CallNo payment is taken during the call. We decide together whether The Rebuild is the right fit before anything is booked.
Reset or Rebuild?
Both are private one-to-one coaching, online, with the same approach behind them. The difference is depth and time, not seriousness.
The Reset
£197- One uninterrupted two-hour session
- Best for one reasonably contained issue or decision
- Clarity and a practical next step in a single sitting
The Rebuild
£597- Six weekly 60-minute sessions
- Best for deeper, longer-standing or connected confidence issues
- Self-trust, direction and momentum built over time
You do not have to decide alone. That is what the free Clarity Call is for.
Is this the right kind of support?
The Rebuild may fit if…
- A setback or change has shaken your confidence more than you expected
- More than one part of your life feels connected to the same thing
- The same doubts and reactions keep returning in new situations
- You want time to practise a different response, not only discuss one
- You have never felt securely confident and would like to build that
Another form of support may fit better if…
- One contained issue is really what is on your mind — Reset may serve you better
- You would prefer someone to make the decisions for you
- You want continuous contact with a coach between sessions
- What you are carrying needs therapy, medical or specialist mental-health care
- Reflecting and trying things differently is not something you have room for yet
If you are not sure which of those columns describes you, that is completely normal. Most people arrive unsure, and working it out together is exactly what the free Clarity Call is for.
Hello, I’m Mark
I have spent more than 20 years helping people think clearly and navigate change, through coaching and mentoring, leadership development, facilitation and organisational development, including work within the NHS.
I hold an ILM Level 5 qualification in Coaching and Mentoring and I am a qualified advanced clinical hypnotherapist. I am fully insured and work confidentially online with people across the UK and internationally.
I have also had to start again myself, after redundancy and after a relationship ended. My role here is to ask good questions, offer an honest perspective and strengthen your judgement rather than replace it with mine.
Things you may want to know
How do I know whether I need Reset or Rebuild?
Reset suits one reasonably contained issue, decision or situation and works within a single two-hour session. Rebuild suits confidence or self-trust that has been affected more deeply, over a longer period, or across several connected areas. We can work this out together on the Clarity Call.
What happens during the sessions?
Each session is a private 60-minute conversation on Zoom. We look at what has shaped your confidence, what keeps repeating and what you genuinely want, then agree something practical to try before we next meet. You bring back what happened and we build from there.
Is it a fixed programme?
No. There is a recognisable shape to the work, but the pace and the order are built around you. Some people spend longer on one stage and barely touch another.
What if I have never felt confident?
Then this still applies to you. Rebuild does not require a more confident earlier version of yourself to return to. For some clients the work is recovery after a specific setback. For others it is building self-trust that has never quite settled.
Is Rebuild therapy?
No. Coaching works from where you are now towards where you would like to be. If I believe therapy, medical care or specialist mental-health support would serve you better, I will say so.
Is hypnotherapy required?
Not at all. Coaching sits at the centre of this work. Clinical hypnotherapy is available as an optional tool where it is genuinely relevant and only with your agreement, and many clients never use it.
Is everything confidential?
Yes, within the standard professional and legal limits I will explain clearly before we begin. This is a private space in which to think out loud.
Is there support between sessions?
The work is centred on the six sessions and on what you notice and try in your own life between them. Messaging and email coaching are not part of it.
How do I book and pay?
Booking begins with a free 20-minute Clarity Call. If we both agree that Rebuild is the right fit, we arrange your six sessions together. All payment, cancellation and rearrangement terms will be explained clearly before you commit to anything.
What happens after session six?
We use part of the final session to consolidate what has changed and how you would like to carry it forward. There is no automatic follow-up package and no obligation to book anything further.
You don’t need a tidy story to begin.
You do not need a polished explanation or a clear goal. If this has been going on for a while and it touches more than one part of your life, we can start there.
The first step is a free 20-minute Clarity Call, so we can work out together whether The Rebuild is right for you.
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