What a Life Coach Does

Sometimes a Life Coach is also a trained psychotherapist. However many are not. In either case, a Life Coach does not perform psychotherapy. Here are the differences between life coaching and psychotherapy or psychology:

COACHING

✔️ Deals with a healthy client desiring a better situation

✔️ Deals mostly with a person’s present (as opposed to the past)

✔️ Assists the client in developing actionable steps toward a desirable future

✔️ Helps clients learn new skills and tools to achieve goals

✔️ Co-creative equal partnership (The client discovers their own answers)

✔️ Assumes emotions are natural and normalizes them

✔️ The Coach stands with the client and helps him or her identify the challenges

✔️ Partners with the client in turning challenges into victories

✔️ Holds the client accountable to reach established goals

✔️ Growth and progress are rapid and usually enjoyable

PSYCHOTHERAPY

✔️ Deals with identifiable dysfunctions in a person

✔️ Deals mostly with a person’s past and trauma, and seeks healing

✔️ Helps patients resolve old pain

✔️ Doctor-patient relationship (The therapist has the answers)

✔️ Assumes emotions are a symptom of something wrong

✔️ Therapist diagnoses a client and provides a path to healing.

✔️ Progress is often slow and painful.

The coaching process is client-driven. You choose what you want to work on and the coach guides you through the process of getting to that goal. This is why true coaches do no make guarantees. The outcomes are up to the client. We provide the tools and the client does the work.

Accountability

The coach is an accountability partner in your goal achievement. It is our job to ensure that you recognize goal-busting mindsets and distractions. We help you develop a proactive plan to address challenges before they arise and we give you the tools to track your progress.