Adult Coaching

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About the service 

Our coaching service is designed to help you focus on where you are now and where you want to be. It offers a supportive space to explore your goals, build confidence, and take practical steps toward positive change. 

We can offer you up to 6 sessions, each one lasting around 50 minutes. Because much of the progress happens between sessions, we recommend leaving at least two weeks between appointments. Sessions can be spread over up to six months, giving you time to reflect, plan, and put new ideas into practice. These sessions are held online, on most weekdays, between 9am and 7pm.

Your coach will listen with empathy and without judgement. They will offer you a balance of support and gentle challenge, helping you identify what you want to achieve and the steps that can get you there. Together, you’ll explore tools and strategies to support your wellbeing, try out new approaches, and reflect on your progress in a way that feels empowering and encouraging.

Eligibility

You can access the service if you:

• are 18+
• are living in York or the surrounding area

Cost 

The standard price is £30 per session. Costs will be discussed with you in more detail during your initial telephone assessment. If you are in severe financial hardship, you can ask us about any grants currently available to help fund counselling.

What our clients say

The following account of a coaching experience at York Mind was shared by a client in 2025. Names have been changed.

"I worked with Max over several months. I wanted to lead a more fulfilling professional life and was trying to make steps towards doing so already, but felt slightly paralysed by the lack of concrete goals and other personal setbacks I'd faced (around emotional regulation and relational intelligence). The range of directions I could have taken in my life at the time was quite overwhelming.

Max first helped me identify my "North Star", a fixed anchor of focus amidst the uncertainty of life. He then encouraged me to build my goals around that.

Max then responded proactively to the biggest challenges I was facing, which tended to shift slightly from month to month. His breadth and depth of therapeutic and professional experience were evident from the flexibility and adaptiveness at the heart of our sessions.

With Max, I was able to talk through everything on my mind and weigh everything out before making my decisions. It was like having someone to help organise a garage workshop full of stuff, and find the right tools to fix a car, except the garage was my mind and the car represented the momentum of my life and how it measured up against my aspirations, lifestyle, and values.

Max provided great care to me as a client, adapting the frequency of sessions to suit my schedule and budget.

Max was an excellent listener, holding space for long periods, allowing me to work through my inner world. He also challenged my ideas, opinions, and self-limiting beliefs at appropriate times, with embodied kindness and consideration.

York Mind's life coaching service was excellent value, and Max was a great guy to work with."