About OpenMindz

Hello and welcome. I am Marco Anholts, the person behind OpenMindz Well-being, learning and Development. I was born in the Netherlands and about 14 years ago I moved to the UK for a year, liked it here so much I stayed and have made this my home.

“He radiates goodwill, enthusiasm and positivity.”

I’ve always had an interest in people and human relationships and qualified, as a social worker in the Netherlands. I learned about psychology and it fascinated me the way the mind works.

We all have mentors in life whose advice stays with us forever. An important mentor in my life once told me:

“Life is a journey. We pick up issues, habits or negative behaviours and emotions along the way and store them safely in our rucksack. Many of us don’t deal with our issues, we simply keep carrying them around, ready to come out again some other time or to spill out when the rucksack is full.”

My own experiences in life showed me how easy it is to feel weighed down by personal challenges and problems, an how making things feel better can be a slow and difficult process. For me it was the journey into self-awareness that first interested me in helping other people to understand how they influence their own lives and to start believing more strongly that they are in control of their own circumstances.

“Adaptive and versatile people skills”

For over 15 years I worked for well-known organisations in both the public and the private sector, developing a wide range of interpersonal tools and skills. I have managed teams, coached team members and qualified as a business coach. I never lost my passion for self-development and attended various courses for my own benefit, so I could better ‘know’ myself and understand how I work as a person.

I qualified as practitioner in Internal Eye Movement Technique (IEMT), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Matrix Re-Imprinting. EFT especially showed me that my mentor all those ago had been right about the journey and “the rucksack” of life: EFT helps release old traumas and emotions to unblocked energies.

“Very strong inspirational skills”

Qualify as a hypnotherapist and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner was an important milestone in my career. I saw just how powerful these techniques are for creating change in people’s lives. I also saw that change can be fun and creative. Seeing people achieving their goals, changing into happier beings and living the lives they had dreamed of was the final step in deciding to make this work the focus of my life for the future. OpenMindz is the realisation of that dream.

The techniques I use will quickly and effectively help you to make the important changes you are looking for. Whether it’s hypnosis, NLP, coaching, EFT, or IEMT − there’s always a suitable method to help you, and we can use a combination of techniques to achieve optimal results!.

I am a Registered Hypnotherapist (General Hypnotherapy Register), an NLP practitioner. As a member of these organisations I am committed to working safely within ethical guidelines and boundaries.

With my very best wishes,