Is Coaching just another name for Counseling?

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Actually, no.  Counseling is performed by a mental health professional and is extremely important for dealing with unresolved trauma or clinical/medical issues. Coaching is not clinic therapy, and is most effective when underlying mental illness is being appropriate treated by a medical professional or licensed therapist.

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Coaching starts with where you are today and looks forward to where you want to be. Think of an sports coach introducing a new playbook to his team, making adjustments to reach the championship. While there is a helpful place for your past story, coaching is mainly looking ahead to the chapters yet to be written.

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Coaching is a collaborative journey that helps you identify and achieve goals, a relationship built on trust and mutual respect, an alliance that is designed by you and your coach for the purpose of helping you realize your full potential.

 

A coaching relationship involves:

• Active listening

• Asking powerful questions

• Expanding possibilities 

• Identifying obstacles 

• Focusing on forward progress

• Looking for different perspectives

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Why use a coach?

• Achieve more in less time with greater life satisfaction

• Grow forward in belief and function

• Accelerate learning​

• Move from frustration to fulfillment

• Support for life transitions

• Create accountability

• Discover and maximize strengths

• Catalyst for change

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