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Personal Success & Life Coach

Julia Williams – Opening doors

I empower authentically imperfect midlife women to go from frantic and frazzled to centred and serene – all without blowing the budget on gin – through coaching and NLP.

Midlife women are the superheroes in invisibility cloaks, supporting everyone around them as their own identity is slowly consumed within the myriad of roles they play until they look up and wonder who the hell they are anymore and what they walked into the room for.

Why work with me?

Like you, I am in my middle years with plenty of life’s curved balls in my past – bereavement, depression, weight yo-yoing, divorce, remarriage, career ladder climbing and retreating, motherhood and perimenopause (not necessarily in that order!). I have an amazing teenage daughter, a wonderful husband and 2 badly behaved cats (is there any other kind?)

Possibly like you, I play glasses on glasses off all day long, forget what I have walked into the room for or what word I wanted, have to change my hormone patches twice weekly and can cry at the drop of a hat!

I totally get where you are right now.

You need to know that I have an irrepressible sense of humour and a tendency to talk with my hands, flapping them all over the place. I’m quite excitable and very enthusiastic about everything to do with personal development, neuroscience and positive psychology. Coaching with me is never dull.

About the coaching thing…

I discovered coaching in 2013 when, disillusioned with my 20-year career as a primary teacher and suffering from some odd virus that had be exhausted for 8 weeks, at the end of my tether, I contacted a life coach to help me decide what to do with the next stage of my life.

I never looked back.

The forward focused nature of coaching helped me rediscover the enthusiasm for teaching and begin to reclimb the teaching ladder. However, it became clear that the transformative nature of coaching began to inspire me more and I realised that I had been coaching children and colleagues in some way all my working life. The stack of personal development books on my bookshelf really should have been a clue!

So I trained to be a life coach and NLP practitioner.

I started Open Door Thinking in 2016. My mission then, as it is now, was to bring coaching to those who were stuck and needed a new way to look at life; to empower them to realise they have the answers within, they just need the support, time and guidance (the keys if you like) to find them. 

And who needs that more than midlife women, right?

Midlife is tough.
Good job we’re tougher.
Now, where did I put my glasses?

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Personal Success & Life Coach

Julia Williams – Opening doors

I empower authentically imperfect midlife women to go from frantic and frazzled to centred and serene – all without blowing the budget on gin – through coaching and NLP.

Midlife women are the superheroes in invisibility cloaks, supporting everyone around them as their own identity is slowly consumed within the myriad of roles they play until they look up and wonder who the hell they are anymore and what they walked into the room for.

Why work with me?

Like you, I am in my middle years with plenty of life’s curved balls in my past – bereavement, depression, weight yo-yoing, divorce, remarriage, career ladder climbing and retreating, motherhood and perimenopause (not necessarily in that order!). I have an amazing teenage daughter, a wonderful husband and 2 badly behaved cats (is there any other kind?)

Possibly like you, I play glasses on glasses off all day long, forget what I have walked into the room for or what word I wanted, have to change my hormone patches twice weekly and can cry at the drop of a hat!

I totally get where you are right now.

You need to know that I have an irrepressible sense of humour and a tendency to talk with my hands, flapping them all over the place. I’m quite excitable and very enthusiastic about everything to do with personal development, neuroscience and positive psychology. Coaching with me is never dull.

About the coaching thing…

I discovered coaching in 2013 when, disillusioned with my 20-year career as a primary teacher and suffering from some odd virus that had be exhausted for 8 weeks, at the end of my tether, I contacted a life coach to help me decide what to do with the next stage of my life.

I never looked back.

The forward focused nature of coaching helped me rediscover the enthusiasm for teaching and begin to reclimb the teaching ladder. However, it became clear that the transformative nature of coaching began to inspire me more and I realised that I had been coaching children and colleagues in some way all my working life. The stack of personal development books on my bookshelf really should have been a clue!

So I trained to be a life coach and NLP practitioner.

I started Open Door Thinking in 2016. My mission then, as it is now, was to bring coaching to those who were stuck and needed a new way to look at life; to empower them to realise they have the answers within, they just need the support, time and guidance (the keys if you like) to find them. 

And who needs that more than midlife women, right?

Midlife is tough.
Good job we’re tougher.
Now, where did I put my glasses?

If you are overwhelmed, no longer recognise yourself or feel like your life is out of control, let me help.

I want to empower you to take charge of your life and choose your reactions, direction and mindset for the future.

You have all the answers inside of you, but what you need is someone who will guide you, question you and help you to find your own solutions, roadblocks and beliefs that will propel you to a great future.

  • “I found Julia very reassuring and easy to talk to. Although it was me doing the work in between sessions, I still felt I had her support. It was affirming wo be able to share my achievements with her over each session.”

    Karen

  • “The coaching with Julia has really helped me to think about and focus upon the things that are really important. Her coaching enabled me to think through plans rationally and systematically and produce a solid strategy.”

    Andrew B

  • “Julia prompted some really useful thought processes for me. She asks really intuitive questions and works hard to understands the world you inhabit, this gives rise to answers you might not usually come up with on your own.”

    Helena

  • "“I began working with Julia as I was forming a plan to change career path via postgraduate study. In each session with Julia, I found her to be positive and logical. She helped me to clarify my goals and break down what I wanted to achieve into manageable tasks, especially the university application process which I initially found very daunting. Julia was also excellent at getting me to assess what was realistic in my current circumstances, and what obstacles could get in my way. All of this has been helpful in getting me to take some unrealistic pressure off myself. I looked forward to sharing my progress with Julia, and a few setbacks too. She helped me to deal with all of it with more equanimity than usual by providing a safe and challenging space to explore my responses. I am now awaiting reply from the university I applied to, and am well on the way to a re-organised working life.”

    Georgina

  • “I have found my sessions with Julia to be very useful . Our sessions gave me inspiration to challenge myself and also helped me to look at look at achieving my goals using avenues I’d not considered previously. Our weekly sessions helped to keep me focused on achieving my goal. Julia is a great motivator and I have very much enjoyed working with her.”

    Nicky

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