DJH Coaching
Now Accepting Coaching Clients Worldwide
Individuals and Couples
Specializing in women’s emotional health, partnership marriage, faith journeys
Hello! I'm so glad you're here. I'm the founder/owner of Dr. Julie Hanks Coaching and Consulting and I'm dedicated to the happiness and wellness of each and every person I work with.
I've worked as a therapist for 30 years, specializing in women's emotional health and relationships, and have transitioned to doing coaching. I love it and I'm excited to work with you. I love working with women in transition, making career and life decisions, assertiveness and communication training, moving on after children or divorce, finding your passion, and negotiating household chores. I work a lot with clients in faith transitions or mixed-faith marriages. I am confident that I can help you create the life you love.
Credentials:
PhD in marriage and family therapy, MSW in clinical social work, BS in psychology, 30 years experience as a therapist, and 10 years experience coaching and consulting.
Upcoming Q&A Series with Dr. Hanks and Valerie Hamaker
Consider joining one of our upcoming Q&A series on:
1) Stepping back from the Church?: How to do so in a psychologically healthy way (June)
2) Should I stay or go?: Support for supporting deciding your activity level in the Church (October)
Register below…
Group Coaching Community — If you are interested in a more affordable way to work with me please join my group coaching community for only $39/month. Participate in monthly group coaching, ask questions in the private Facebook group, get access to all of the previous month’s content and videos, and access to all of my courses.
What’s the difference between therapy and coaching?
Psychotherapy, therapy, or talk therapy is appropriate to diagnose and treat mental illness, heal relationship distress, and is generally longer-term than coaching. While therapy is often focued on the present and future, it also focuses on the past, including trauma. Therapists can also do coaching, but coaches do not offer therapy. Therapists must have at least a master’s degree in mental health field (social work, marriage and family therapy, psychology, mental health counseling, psychiatric nursing) and be licensed to practice psychotherapy. Students and associates can practice therapy under the supervision of a licensed therapist.
Coaching is focused on improving a very specific area of your life and deals with present and future. COACHING IS NOT APPROPRIATE TO TREAT MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS. Coaching requires client to be able to accept direct input and feedback to solve a specific problem, and must be motivated to follow through by taking action. By scheduling a coaching session you agree that this is coaching and is not mental health therapy.
What People Are Saying
“Dr. Hanks’ coaching is passionate, on point, and highly impactful. It’s been a beautiful blend of healing my past and achieving my goals.
To have a coach who is also a therapist is a huge benefit. To have a coach who understands your culture is significant. To have a coach who can help you find your core wounds and generate practical solutions for how to move forward in light of them is remarkable. To have a coach who lives in alignment with her own clearly defined values and goals is inspiring. To have a coach who knows how to help you define your own, and put them into practice— that’s the ballgame.”
— Emily Bailey @homeschoolunscripted
I appreciate being able to pour my thoughts and help me sift them, see them, and teach me how to utilize. Trusting her came easily, but having her help me trust she had in me was invaluable. Dr. Hanks is well-educated, well read, and relatable.