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How Is Coaching Different From Counseling Or Therapy? |
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Coaching is about the present and the future and taking action based on goals and objectives. Coaches work with healthy, alive people and help them to move forward. Coaching is not about trying to uncover or solve issues in the past, although insights about the past often occur as a result of coaching. Coaching is not intended for, or effective with, individuals who have severe mental or emotional problems or who have addictions.
The following is from an article that I published recently:
Life coaching is a NEW option for people who like to improve themselves & their lives. You may no longer need a diagnosis from a psychotherapist who delves into the painful past. Life coaches are action-oriented, solution-oriented, and concentrate on forward motion; not looking at the past or trying to “FIX” you. Counseling & therapy is primarily focused on helping with mental health issues, coaching on the other hand, focuses on personal and professional growth. Coaches do not, nor do they intend to, meet you in the dark places where you’re most desperate, lonely, enraged and fearful — home turf to most psychotherapists. Instead of healing and uncovering — coaches work in the realm of discovery, motivation and creation. Coaches have "clients" instead of "patients”
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