Julie Mitchell Counselling & Psychotherapy
Therapeutic Coaching is a hybrid approach that combines the emotional depth and reflection of counselling with the more action-oriented, goal-driven structure of traditional life coaching. Therapy may focus more heavily on processing and healing from past experiences, whilst coaching tends to place it's focus on the present and the future. Therapeutic Coaching can allow us to safely explore how past patterns or challenges are impacting you today.
Our coaching sessions will invite you to slow down, explore your hopes and fears, connect to your needs and wants, feel empowered to take action to create the life you want.
Coaching conversations can be transformational and empowering. My aim is to support you to embrace life on your terms: raise your self-awareness, grow self-trust and self-compassion, and find the courage to be more fully who you are beneath the labels, roles, and expectations.
My coaching approach is relational and pluralistic, allowing me to work collaboratively with you, drawing upon different theories at different times to suit your changing needs. Rooted in Existential and Gestalt understanding, I commonly draw upon principles from within Narrative Therapy - the deconstruction of stories and externalisation of challenges, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy – acceptance, presence, use of self-as-context.
If you think you would like to work with me, or if you are unsure as to whether you want coaching or counselling, I offer an initial free 20 minute conversation for us to get to know more about each other. Enquire here
“Working with Julie has revolutionised the way I see myself. The change I am experiencing isn’t just a mindset shift, but is occurring at the very core of me, it’s a visceral inside out transformation; causing me to look again at the values and beliefs that have for so long hindered me from seeing the world in and around me with the beauty and awe that was most likely always there. Julie is a compassionate, intuitive coach, quickly trustworthy and immensely safe”.
Sonia, Sheffield
Indoors, outdoors or online?
I offer therapeutic coaching in different settings:
Outdoors - I work in different locations, woodlands and parks, in and around Sheffield and on the Sheffield-Peak District border. I invite you to walk with me and experience how the natural world and the act of walking alongside one another can support and inspire our work together. Moving outdoors offers us a wonderful opportunity to 'be' in our bodies, freeing us from the constraints of our minds, opening us up to new thinking.
Indoors - I have a private therapy room on Bank Street in Sheffield City Centre. The room has been thoughtfully furnished to provide a calm and comfortable environment in which we can meet. Our surroundings matter and can really impact on how we feel.
Online - If you are unable to meet in person I am able to meet with you on Zoom. You will need to have access to a space in which you can be alone and where no-one can overhear you.
Wherever and however we meet, sessions are either hour long and costing £60 per session, or 90 minutes long and costing £90 per session.
Coaching session frequency can be agreed between us. Coaching may be may be short-term or long-term; we will regularly review where we are in the process and will tend to a carefully managed ending.
"I've been working with Julie for several years now and can honestly say the the experience has been transformative. Julie listens acutely and offers a blend of support and challenge which helps me to get curious about what's going on for me, supporting me to notice the things that are serving me well, the things that aren't, and to re-frame when I need to. Julie has a brilliant way of knowing when to push and when to pause. I feel incredibly lucky to have her in my life".
Kate, Sheffield