Where coaching fits around therapies
Sometimes people aren’t sure where coaching fits around clinical therapies. One of the first things we as coaches are required to do when a client approaches us for information about coaching, is to explain the difference between coaching and other therapies. Coaching is future focused – identifying where a client is now, where they want to be in the future and filling the gaps between now and then with a sustainable plan, clear steps, ongoing support and accountability. Coaching is not the same as counselling, psychotherapy, mentoring or training. Counselling and psychotherapy deal with problems, often from the past. Mentoring and training are instructional interventions, where the client is taught how to do something. Sometimes there is an overlap, for example, we all have had bad things happen to us in the past and if these come up in coaching that’s perfectly fine because it helps the client and the […]