The second place

Work

What I do with people, and how I got here.

A selfie of Matthew at the front of a bright university room, a workshop group seated at tables behind him
A workshop at the University of Northampton, 2023.
Five panellists on chairs in a bright studio, a speaker joining on a large screen behind them
On a panel at the Channel 4 studios, 2023.
Matthew on a panel of three at a table, under a screen reading Welcome, The International Society for Bipolar Disorders, Chiba, Japan
On a panel at the International Society for Bipolar Disorders, Chiba, September 2025.

Therapeutic Coach

Since April 2022, and UK and Europe representative for 5th Place

One to one since April 2022 with people living with bipolar: patterns, stability, what to do with a feeling on an ordinary day. Trained by Frances Masters at the Integrated Coaching Academy, in the Fusion model. With 5th Place I take Shape of Emotion and the Emotional Fitness Model to organisations, schools and communities. I first learned to ask what shape a feeling is at my own dining table.

Chantal Dawtrey, Tobie Cronjé, Matthew and Matthew Green laughing together after a meal, white orchids behind
A lovely, funny meal with Chantal, Matthew and Tobie Cronjé, one of South Africa’s best-loved comic actors. Johannesburg, September 2025.
A selfie of Matthew Green, Matthew and Chantal Dawtrey in front of the fiction shelves at Love Books
Love Books, with Matthew and Chantal, 9 September 2025.

Coaching with me →

Recovery College Peer Trainer

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, since February 2026

I run Living with Bipolar, for people living with bipolar and those around them, with more dates being published soon. I’d already co-delivered it here before I joined. I also co-facilitate other courses and workshops, and co-write what gets taught, on the principle that services are best designed and delivered by people who’ve used them.

Before all this

  • 2022–24Minderful, a health tech app for mental fitness. Head of Partnerships, taking workplace mental health to businesses across Northamptonshire, then wellbeing coach.
  • 2022–24Mental health trainer and speaker with PVL.
  • 2022–23Clinical actor at the University of Northampton, playing a patient so that healthcare professionals could practise.
  • 2024Producer and co-host at Revolution Radio.
  • 2016–21Blinds, software and business coaching.
  • 2014–16The county archives.
  • 2011–13Neuro-physiotherapy assistant and veterans’ advocate at St Andrew’s Healthcare.
  • 2009–11Rehabilitation assistant at Christ Church Court, with people living with acquired brain injury.
  • 2004–08Production monitoring across the UK, Europe and the USA.
  • 2000–04The Royal Signals.

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