Services

 

COACHING VERSUS COUNSELING SERVICES

Therapy, also called counseling or psychotherapy, is a long-term process in which a client works with a healthcare professional to diagnose and resolve problematic beliefs, behaviors, relationship issues, feelings and sometimes physical responses. The idea behind therapy is to focus on past traumas and issues to change self-destructive habits, repair and improve relationships and work through past trauma and painful feelings. In this sense, therapy focuses on the past and on insight and analysis.

Life coaching is a process which may be long- or short-term as well. In life coaching, a client works with a coach who doesnt necessarily has to be a healthcare professional. The aim of life coaching is to clarify goals and identify obstacles to success and problematic behaviors in order to create action plans to achieve desired results. It takes the client’s current starting point as an acceptable neutral ground and is more action-based from that point onward.

Therapy and life coaching do share certain traits and ideals. Both therapists and life coaches work to enable clients to make positive changes in their lives and become more productive. While therapists do diagnose and treat from a healthcare perspective, not all therapy clients are ill; many healthy people seek the services of both therapists and life coaches. Therapists may at times work with specific results in mind, such as the cessation of a particular problematic behavior or thought perception. 

HOW DO I DECIDE WHAT I NEED?

Naturally, the decision to seek out a therapist or a life coach is a very personal one but not a easy one to make. 

Coaching services:
* Clarifying and achieving personal and professional goals
* Creating action plans (focused on external factors)
* Working to improve communication skills
* Achieving financial independence and security
* Achieving a work/life balance
* Starting a new life endeavor 

Therapy Services:
* Medical Model
* Recover/grieve from past traumas
* Explore why past relationships (business or personal) have been destructive
* Work through depression or anxiety that affect your ability to function
* Creating treatment plan (focused around internal and external factors)
* Survive a divorce or loss of a loved one (pet)
* Reducing or diminishing symptomatic behaviors, emotions or thoughts
* Building understanding about triggers that exacerbate mental health condition