Have you ever wondered what the difference is between working with a life coach vs working with a counselor?
Life Coaching is to Counseling as Icing is to Cake. Perhaps more like cake is to a cake stand? 🤔 Silly metaphors aside, a solid base is imperative to a kickass cake.
Coaching Helps You Grow
Learn to Harness Your Full Potential and Live an Authentic Life with Coaching
Coaching is a powerful tool that can benefit anyone, and often, it can complement counseling. Life Coaching picks up where treatment ends. Anyone with a desire to pursue their dreams, actualize their goals, advance their career, or take a giant leap into entrepreneurship is ready for coaching!
And if your life is stable but lacking a bit of oomph coaching can also help you walk through unsavory situations, cultivate healthy relationships, overcome challenges, break through barriers, improve wellness, and fitness levels. Coaching is key to any transition in life!
Counseling Help You Heal
Assesses, Diagnoses & Treat Conditions & Disorders with Counseling
Therapy is designed to help you heal in addition to treat illness, disorders, and diseases of the mind. Counseling is a clinical relationship between a patient and a licensed therapist. A therapist assesses, diagnoses, and treats their patient. While treatment plans vary in frequency and duration, you should reach a point where you have healed, and are ready to move on.
Additionally, patient-therapist boundaries are more fixed and rigid. A life coach has the ability to be more open about themselves and communicate in a much different manner. In some instances your coach may communicate with you more like a peer—you meet on common ground.
What Kind of Coaching is Right for Me?
Career Coaching? Mindset Coaching? Wellness Coaching?
A certified life coach is qualified to coach in all aspects of life. And a good life coach will refer you to someone else if they believe there is someone better suited to meet your needs.
While I have extensive experience in business development, and additional certifications in recovery, wellness, nutrition, it all falls under the realm of life coaching. The primary focus is to assist my clients to identify their needs, address obstacles preventing them from growth attaining their goals, creating action steps to achieve those goals and holding them accountable to ensure success.
In my experience, clients often seek coaching for one area of their lives, and as things progress we discover there is an area that needs to be address that has been blocking them from acieving their full potential. That is where the pivot comes into play!
Is Life Coaching Right for You?
While life coaching is not a replacement for therapy, it is profoundly beneficial for anyone ready to fully commit to their own growth. True transformation begins when you step beyond the familiar. That’s why it’s essential to partner with a coach who is not only kind and understanding but who will also challenge you with supportive honesty to help you achieve your goals.
Unlock your potential and create lasting change with life coaching! Schedule a Discovery Session today to explore what’s possible.
You only get one life—make it extraordinary.
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