Whats the difference between coaching and Cognitive Behavioral Counseling?
Work in Christian cognitive behavioral counseling would transfer very nicely into a “coach approach” to working with people in non-counseling life issues. Most counselors who add life coaching to their repertoire of services do so in order to broaden the kinds of clientele they can serve. Whereas counseling is primarily about healing, coaching is primarily about growth. Counseling clients are experiencing some degree of personal brokenness, while coaching clients begin their work in a state of relative health & stability with a desire to grow into more of the fullness of who they feel God has called them to be. Coaching is a natural “fit” with counseling – they go hand-in-glove. As clients move from a state of brokenness to a more acceptable state of health, they can then transition through coaching to an exceptional state of health/life/functioning. Obviously, coaches don’t bill insurance for their work since it is not diagnostically based. There is no identified “problem” – rather, t
