What makes coaching different from counseling?
While coaching and counseling are very different from each other, they are often compared to each other, or mistaken for the same service. In counseling, a therapist or other mental health professional is perceived as an expert who is working to diagnose or treat a particular problem or issue. In coaching, the “client” is perceived as a complete and whole individual with their own brilliant solutions. Coaching clients are not broken individuals that need fixing, but are forward moving people who are looking to accelerate their progress. The focus of coaching is to move a client forward in considering the future possibility of creating a life they deserve and living a life that is authentic to their true self! Coaching asks “what do you really want?” and “what are you willing to do to get it?” Coaching helps people answer the question, “what am I capable of?
