What is the difference between coaching and Therapy, Training, Consulting, Mentoring?
Therapy. Therapy focuses more on the ‘past to present’ whereas Coaching focuses more on the ‘present to future’. Therapy has a pathology orientation where Coaching is growth and development oriented. However there are areas of similarity and overlap between coaching and therapy, notably regarding ethics and the skills of questioning and active listening. Coaching has its roots in psychology with modern coaching based on humanistic and transpersonal psychological principles. Coaching, whilst being solution focused like some therapy and counselling, is primarily goal driven and therefore more suitable for people who feel generally healthy and satisfied and are presenting with an issue where they would like to do better. Therapy on the other hand is more suitable for people who do not feel generally healthy and satisfied, where they have deeper issues regarding, for example, low self-esteem, poor self-image, depression etc., and where they are presenting with issues that would not respond
