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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Life Coaching provides people and organizations with challenging questions to help focus and inspire them to strive toward their goals or develop new goals. Part of this is simply being a good listener and being able to provide clients with the support and accountability they require. There is great joy for both the coach and the client when the person or organization achieves a dream or heads in a new direction they had not thought possible.

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.

Coaching assumes that the entrepreneur or business leader is an expert when it comes to their business. The coach's role is to help the client clarify what they really want and then develop strategies and skills - based on each client's unique personality and style - to achieve their goals, quickly. A consultant provides expert advice and knowledge on specific issues or situations.

Coaching is for people who are functioning well in life and who want to experience greater levels of fulfillment and success. Therapy tends to focus on the past and has a “something’s broken, let’s fix it” orientation. Coaching focuses on using your strengths to support you in accomplishing your goals. Achieving results and forward movement are an integral part of this.

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.

Coaching works with clients who would like to improve their life, while focusing on the future. This is usually accomplished by designing a life plan, setting goals and redesigning the way you react to life's challenges. Therapy generally focuses on a specific issue in ones life, looking at the past to discover why the client feels the way they do. For in depth clarity, go to "Coach-Connect" where Dr. Jodi is currently a member of a professional team of Coaches!

A counselor diagnoses a problem and suggest solutions. Counseling deals with the past. Life coaching is focused on the present and the future. It is about looking ahead, moving forward, and growing. It is for people who are basically well-adjusted, emotionally healthy, and functioning effectively.

a personal life coach, I help you find your own answers. People are more likely to take action if it is something they themselves have come up with and not been told to do. A consultant is an expert who dispenses advice and has all the answers. I do not give advice per se but do problem-solve and brainstorm with you.

First, let me say that coaching deals with whole people, and whole people have emotions. Emotional aspects of a person are witnessed, just as an athletic coach would surely be with the athelete who has experienced a setback. But the focus does not remain on the emotional experience; it moves back to the vision and goals, and the actions that will yield the desired results.

The differences, which can be substantial, are covered in Dr. Sanford's article, "Relationship Coaching or Counseling?" Our program is change. If change is what you want, you will definitely get it here. Expect to be trying out new behavior from the first coaching session. The program teaches essential skills and provides a vehicle for practicing them.

Counseling or psychotherapy is the process where someone seeks help for problems of an emotional nature from a trained professional in a confidential setting. By establishing a positive, trusting relationship, the therapist will work with you to learn how to cope with the problem by learning new skills and/or different ways of looking at situations. In the beginning stage of therapy, your therapist will ask about your concerns and goals to gain a deeper understanding of you.

The Life Coaching Course covers a broad overview of holistic needs such as weight, relationships, money and parenting mastery. This modality appeals to students who want to work with the mainstream general public. The Spiritual Counselor's course is for students who want to learn spiritual healing techniques as a spiritual psychologist. Spiritual psychology is... the study of the Soul. Spiritual Counseling is equal parts spirituality, psychology and metaphysics.