Body-centered coaching employs a learning paradigm, which assumes your wholeness and ability to learn how to make your life, relationships and work more easeful and fulfilling right now. The therapy paradigm requires that you first identify a wound or something wrong with you before you can succeed. It often focuses on past events, which can keep you from moving forward with your life.

Therapy generally focuses on family-of-origin issues, and can help individuals understand the origins of dysfunction in their life. Negative behaviors, relationships, addictions and/or belief systems are often identified and analyzed to enhance an individual's mental and emotional health. Integral coaching does not generally dwell on family-of-origin issues.

Life coaching deals with the present and future. It does not examine the past but instead creates your future. Many of my clients have found the coaching I provide to be therapeutic, but it is not therapy. Counseling and psychotherapy usually deal with problems and healing. It entails working with the past as well as the present. Also, life coaching is not considered a mental health service per se and is therefore not covered by health insurance.

Coaching is NOT psychotherapy. Psychotherapy focuses on treating diagnosable psychological disorders. Because of the vulnerability of individuals who come to psychotherapy, this is a special relationship in the eyes of the law, with specific rules and protections. Psychotherapy is about healing, while coaching is about facilitating your growth from a place of health. Coaching assumes that you are emotionally healthy and able to participate equally in creating the future you desire.

Psychotherapy focuses on helping clients overcome past problems that impede their ability to function in a normal day to day manner. A therapist directs her clients to revisit the past events to discover and resolve conflicting issues that have burdened them. Therapists are not equal partners. Therapist and their clients frequently form a strong confidential bond. The life coaching process focuses on you, the client, achieving your chosen future coaching goals.

While Psychotherapy offers tools for understanding your limitations and blocks, NLP offers the tools for change. Although Psychotherapy can assist with insight and understanding, psychotherapy alone is often unable to change the problem behaviour, as many long-term psychotherapy clients will attest. Whilst valuing the process of understanding and insight, the outcome of change is equally important.

Therapy for the most part delves into the psychology of the past and how a person got to be where they are today. Management consultants deliver "solutions" to problems that are predetermined based on their expertise. Coaching, in contrast, believes the client focuses on where the client is now and where the client wants to go. Solutions are created by the client.

Counseling and psychotherapy are focused on analyzing or finding the reason behind a problem. Some therapists believe that in order to make life changes, the client must understand why they are behaving in a certain way. Coaching is focused on creating a future based on where the client stands in the present. It concentrates on tracking patterns of language and behavior. Coaches then work with those patterns so that the client can make useful changes in their lives.

Often people ask what makes pastoral counseling different than other therapy. One answer is that we encourage the whole person in our work: body, mind, and spirit. We do not operate only on the medical model of illness and pathology. Sometimes our problems and challenges are physical and often mental, but many times they are spiritual. Pastoral counseling is a unique form of psychotherapy which uses spiritual resources as well as psychological understanding for healing and growth.

The simple answer is that no one approach fits everyone's needs or preferences. There are many different schools of psychotherapy. They all share the common goal of decreasing emotional distress and increasing a person's sense of well-being. The vast majority of clinical psychologists use a variety of techniques tailored to what will be most helpful for you. Generally, the psychologist will encourage and guide you in an in-depth understanding of the problem and how to resolve it.

Cognitive therapies have two major elements: (1) changing beliefs by challenging the validity of the evidence that the client gives to support them and (2) getting the client to agree to act consistently with an alternative belief to test its possible validity. Regarding point one, in The Lefkoe Method the current belief is not given up because one comes to see that it's wrong, because it's not true, because it's illogical, because it doesn't make sense, and/or because it's self defeating.

No. It cannot be said that one approach is more effective than the others for Social Anxiety Disorder. Even though some therapists say so, there is no scientific proof of it. The hard fact is that there is no time-honored tradition in the different schools of psychotherapy, except for some exceptions, of assessing treatment outcomes. This is also due to the difficulty of having reliable instruments to carry out such measurements.

My primary approach derives from a therapy called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT is a new form of cognitive-behavioral therapy which uses processes such as mindfulness, acceptance, and values to help people with a variety of life problems. I attempt to create a context in psychotherapy which helps people develop a greater sense of freedom and let go of the struggle and tension in their lives.