What are the differences between Coaching, Consulting, and Therapy?
Coaching is about maximizing potential. The client is assumed to be whole and unbroken, and the client wants even more from life. Coaching is about working with people in areas where they are functioning well in order to take it to the next level. Coaching is focused on the client’s present and future. Consulting is about solving problems. Clients see that they have a problem, often a business problem, and they pay the consultant to tell them how to solve the problem. The focus in consulting is the problem, not the person. In therapy, there may be an area of life where the client is dysfunctional. A therapist may work to diagnose and treat the problem to help restore the client to a functional level in that area. Many therapists also now use coaching techniques. A therapist may work with a client to help them understand the reasons why they are where they are, focusing on the past to better understand the present.
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