


EXECUTIVE NEURODIVERSE COACH
Enabling you to make positive changes to achieve your goals.
Together, we can thrive, rather than survive.
MEET JULIA AHRELL
An accredited Executive and Neurodiverse Coach, striving to make positive, meaningful change for people in the workplace. I have over 20 years experience leading, training, teaching and facilitating employees, families and young people.
With training in psychology and neuroscience, I use goal oriented, solution-focused approaches. I draw on my own values of support, challenge, and humour to get the best out of a client.
I understand that trying to survive in a neurotypical world can be challenging. Neurodiversity impacts each person differently. By working on the aspects that make us unique, we can develop strategies for emotional regulation, communication, executive functioning and wellbeing, with the view to help us to thrive, rather than survive.
JRLCoach can help companies benefit from retaining valuable neurodivergent employees through working towards company and individual goals, whilst ultimately flourishing in the workplace.



WHAT PEOPLE SAY
‘I came to Julia as a newly diagnosed neurodiverse woman. I was in an executive role, but was insecure about how being neurodiverse would impact my leadership opportunities.
Working through areas of my neurodiversity has helped me to embrace a leadership style that best suits me.
Julia helped me develop clarity in who I am and what I want to achieve as a leader.
I have subsequently been offered a promotion in the area I know I will make the biggest impact, thanks largely to the work that Julia and I did together. Our sessions have truly been transformative.’
Technology Executive, International Media Firm
'When I started with Julia, I honestly had lost all sense of who I was and what I had to offer. Contrast that with our 6th session, where I now feel so much more confident and have a clear plan to move forwards with. The difference is night and day. '
Senior Creative Director, Global Media Firm
‘Before the coaching sessions, I was finding it difficult to cope with the demands of everyday life as an adult with ADHD. I wanted support and to learn how to better manage these challenges.
Since starting the coaching sessions, I have been feeling a lot more supported knowing that I can bring up these challenges with Julia and that we can work through them together.
I have found Julia’s approach to be practical yet empathetic. I feel like I am able to discuss both big and small challenges with her and she invariably helps me through them with earnestness, and I leave each session with clear sense of how I could seek to manage a particular issue and tools that bring with me. This has really changed the way I view the things in my life and how I may want and could reprioritise them. Julia has also been able to provide pragmatic guidance, such as suggesting ways I could make it easier for myself to do a task that I had been putting off and incorporate a reward element to these tasks. These are all techniques that I have continued to implement in my life.’
Associate Lawyer, London Law Firm
'Before I started the coaching sessions I just felt like drowning in an ocean of my own emotions. I felt lost.
Julia has created a safe space for me where I could talk about anything and everything. Her style as intuitive, she knows when to listen and when to coach by suggesting alternative approaches. We have worked through menopausal issues together. I now see menopause as a superpower, rather than something to be ashamed of.
Where once I felt lost, now I’m more aware of my feelings and thoughts, and know what actions to take with greater clarity. As a result of Julia’s sessions, I continue to achieve my professional and personal goals, and now feel armed with strategies to help me in the future.'
Team Sales Lead, International Clothing Company
‘Before working with Julia, I had explored several therapies and done a great deal of groundwork, but I wanted practical, forward‑looking support to help me progress in my career and build sustainable strategies for everyday life. I was drawn to Julia because of their clear experience working with neurodivergent clients and an approach that strongly aligned with my goals.
Julia has had a consistently positive impact. Sessions are focused yet flexible, adapting as priorities shift, while still providing structure, challenge and accountability. Julia combines empathy with a strong professional instinct, helping me think differently, apply practical techniques, and take meaningful action. As a result, I feel more balanced, more in control, and clearer about my present and future direction.'
Specialist, Assessment, Educational Publishing Firm
'Julia has helped me to see the patterns in my behaviour and thoughts rather than focus on distractions around me. By the end of each session, I can see clearly what needs to be done. Julia's couching is very positive, energetic, and intuitive. She has helped me to move forward in many aspects of my life, where, once I felt stuck.'
Finance Director, Global Marketing Firm
‘Before working with Julia, I often felt stretched and found it difficult to set clear boundaries, particularly in a demanding role. I also had a limited understanding of my neurodivergence and what it meant in practice for how I work and manage my energy. Through coaching, that has completely shifted. I now feel more confident setting and holding boundaries in a way that feels both firm and empathetic, and I have a much clearer understanding of how to work with my neurodivergence rather than against it. This has had a real impact on how I show up day-to-day. Julia created a space where I felt understood and supported, while also gently challenging me to reflect more deeply. Her insight and intuition helped me connect the dots in a way I hadn’t before, and her approach made the learning feel both practical and personal. Her style is positive, thoughtful, empathetic, and quietly challenging in the best way.’
Legal Project Manager, International Law Firm
'I was feeling like I was ready to make a change in my career, but not sure of what that should be. Julia has been an excellent sounding board, helping me to see that I have control over my own career. She has allowed me to talk through all my thoughts, feelings and fears about my career, and come to my own conclusions about things. She has also offered an outsider's perspective that has given me greater confidence in myself and my abilities.
Julia’s warm, flexible, down to earth approach encourages me to celebrate my wins, and to not be too hard on myself.
I've since changed jobs, doing the same role for more money with a different company. I'm also learning heaps of new skills with this company, feel valued and I'm growing in confidence.'
Senior Accounts Manager, Global Advertising Agency