Therapy is a long-term process, (years and sometimes even decades) in which a licensed healthcare provider helps a client delve into past traumas and beliefs with the goal of restructuring habits and altering long-held perspectives to guide future behavior.
Coaching can be a short-term or long-term process, depending on a client’s goals. Clients work alongside coaches to help determine their goals, become aware of self-limiting beliefs and obstacles, and create plans to attain their goals. A coach starts where the client currently is in life and goes forward from there – most plans do not include analyzing and relating past traumas. Coaching puts the client in the driver’s seat of their life, co-creating their future with their coach, who offers encouragement, accountability, and unending support.
In therapy, a client will work to understand how they became who they are, by spending much time analyzing past relationships, childhood traumas, and consistent behavioral patterns, in hopes of understanding what made them who they became. Many times, a therapist will not initiate new behavior, but will only reflect back to the client any awareness that has been achieved by the client.
In coaching, a coach will create awareness around any current problematic behaviors or self-imposed obstacles, so the client can work to remedy these habits. Coaches create measurable milestones, timelines, and long and short-term goals that can be managed and attained. Goals can include enhanced communication, career advancement, weight-loss, meditation, financial stability, physical fitness, sobriety, work/life balance, independence, ending co-dependency, plus many, many more actions toward a better life!
The best time to hire a coach is when:
- You are ready to make meaningful changes in your life.
- You want to be supported and inspired to reach your goals.
- You need clarity about the next step of your life.
- Your communication skills can use polishing.
- You want to break out of a rut and challenge yourself to learn something new.
- You want to live more of your life purpose and understand what that means.
- You want to defeat unhealthy behaviors and replace them with healthy options.
- You know what you want to achieve, but you don’t know how to get there.
- You don’t feel fulfilled, and you don’t know why, but you want to change.
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