1st December 2025 - 31st December 2025, 12:00
Adult Coaching
Service Status: OPEN to new referrals
(as at 29 August 2025)
About the service
At York Mind our Adult One-to-One Service offers coaching online for people wanting to focus on the present and future of their lives. We offer up to 6 coaching sessions, each session lasting up to an hour. Much of the benefit from coaching happens between sessions, so we suggest that you leave at least two weeks between each session to make the most of this. Sessions can be spread out over up to 6 months, allowing you to act on any decisions you make during the process.
How can this help me?
A simplified definition of coaching is that it is future-oriented, helping individuals achieve specific goals and improve aspects of their lives. In contrast, counselling often delves into past experiences and emotions to address deeper emotional issues and promote healing in the present. It is sometimes said that counselling is reparative (healing) in nature, whilst coaching has a developmental focus on the future. There is often some overlap between counselling and coaching, and you may find that one leads to the other.
Your coach will listen to you non-judgmentally and offer you an appropriate balance of support and challenge as you work towards the goal(s) or outcome(s) you would like to achieve. Your coach can also help you to identify strategies and tools to improve your overall mental health. They will support you to try things out, make your own choices, and evaluate your own progress.
Who can access the service?
Adults who are aged 18+ living in York or the surrounding area.
Cost
York Mind aims to provide affordable coaching sessions for adults who would like our help. Our charges start at £30 per session, depending on individual circumstances. Fees will be discussed with you in more detail during your initial telephone assessment.
Referring in
To refer in, simply complete our referral form (or download the Word Version and send to coaching@yorkmind.org.uk).
We aim to be in touch within two weeks of receiving your referral.
What will happen next?
Once you have submitted a referral, you will be contacted by the Adult One-to-One Service team who will arrange a telephone assessment with you; this will take approximately half an hour. The assessment will establish your reasons for requesting coaching support and whether it is the most appropriate service for you. After the assessment, you will be matched with a coach and your coaching journey commences.
If you want to find out more, you can email coaching@yorkmind.org.uk
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."
