Chris Hemmings
M-Path founder, lead facilitator & psychotherapist
M-Path was founded by Chris Hemmings, a BACP-registered psychotherapist, coach and speaker who specialises in working with men and boys around masculinity and mental health. Chris was called into this work after the death of his father in 2013 and his subsequent fall into drugs and alcohol. Since then, he has dedicated over a decade to helping men build emotional well-being, develop empathy and become more effective allies.
Alongside delivering talks and workshops on masculinity, men’s mental health and allyship to schools, universities and organisations around the world, Chris founded Men’s Therapy Hub – a growing platform connecting male clients with male therapists, building professional community and reshaping how men access support. The Hub reflects M-Path’s wider mission: to normalise emotional expression in men and challenge outdated ideas of masculinity that limit personal growth and connection.
Before training as a therapist and gaining accreditation with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Chris spent ten years as a journalist with the BBC. His first book, Be A Man: How Macho Culture Damages Us and How to Escape It, was published in 2017 and explored how traditional masculine norms harm men’s mental health and relationships. These themes also featured across his documentaries and writing for the BBC, The Independent, The Telegraph and The Guardian.
Now based between London and Copenhagen, Chris continues to guide the development of men’s groups, emotional well-being networks and progressive conversations around gender and identity – both through M-Path and Men’s Therapy Hub.
Testimonials for Chris Hemmings
Chris Hemmings on Things Men Need To Hear
Chris Hemmings speaks with Zac Fine, a counsellor in private practice in the UK with a special interest in masculinity – also known as The Masculinity Therapist.
Publications by Chris Hemmings
Be A Man: The Book
For decades women have shone the spotlight on equality and asked why they’re treated like second-class citizens. They’ve understandably demanded freedoms, rights and legal protections and, while they’ve slowly won some battles, it has been far too long and been far too arduous.
But why is that? Why have generations of men blocked their march towards equality and what impact has it had? Journalist, broadcaster and former lad Chris Hemmings sets out to explore why so few men ask such probing questions of their own sex.
Reviews for Be A Man
A beautiful, searing book which drips with courage and insight, about how unreconstructed, traditional masculinity is bad for men and women alike. The policing of gender norms hurts men and women – and this book is a critical contribution to how we overcome it.
I love this book. It’s what I’ve been longing for a young man who, as a result of his own experience, is courageous enough to say traditional masculinity is bad for everyone. I’ve always said we would have cracked it when men were asking how they would juggle their work and their family. Bravo, Chris Hemmings!
This is a timely and startling book about a very real and dangerously unacknowledged crisis facing young men in the West. Hemmings writes with raw honesty about his own embrace of a belligerent, misogynistic blokeishness and the dawning realisation that his attempts to fit in with lad culture had left him hollow and self-loathing. Part confessional memoir, part academic analysis he uses his own experiences and considerable journalistic talent as lenses through which to examine the changing nature of the male’s role in society. The old breadwinner/homemaker paradigm is clearly broken and this is a bold and well-argued attempt to replace it with something relevant to twenty-first century relationships.
