How is coaching different from counseling or therapy?
Therapy or counseling typically deals with healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within you or within a relationship between you and another person or people. The focus of therapy or counseling is often on resolving difficulties arising from the past which hamper your emotional functioning in the present. Coaching is forward moving and future focused with an emphasis on taking action based on goals and objectives. Coaches work with emotionally healthy people and help them to move forward through action, accountability and follow through. Coaching is not about trying to uncover or solve issues in the past, although insights about the past often occur as a result of coaching. Coaching is not intended for, or effective with, individuals who have severe mental or emotional problems or who have untreated addictions.
