Life coaching is a personal and collaborative connection where the team works to find answers from within the client. Life coaching is an exciting connection of egalitarian peers where the client is seen as the expert of themselves. The life coach helps the client discover their mission, purpose, goals, dreams, wants, and hopes. The focus is on maximizing emotional health today and achieving peak performance in the future while fostering encouragement, motivation, and success. There is structure in a treatment plan, homework, accountability, and focused growth. Life Coaching is not performed under any counseling licensure.
LIFE COACHING INTENSIVE:
Day long sessions can be scheduled for those who need to receive the same amount of work in a shorter period of time. The first Saturday of the month has been reserved for Life Coaching Intensive. The hours will be 8-5 with a one-hour lunch. The cost is $1,100.
To compare life coaching to other services
Traditional Therapy
(Old style)
Psychoanalytical
Paradigm of pathology
Orientation
Process
Feelings
Inner world
History
Why?
Therapist is expert
Client is patient
Medical Model
Transitional Models
(Grey areas)
solution-focused, brief
paradigm of solutions
Language is primary
Tool
Move away from pathology
Coaching
(a new option)
Whole Life coaching
Paradigm of possibility
Orientation
Outcome
Action
Inner to outer world
Vision of future
How?
Coach as cocreator
Freedom from
managed care
Counseling Vs Life Coaching
1. Past vs future
2. Fix vs create
3. Professional vs collegial
4. Limited vs open
Therapy vs. Coaching and Other Professions
Therapy
Deals most with
a person’s past and
trauma, and seeks
healing
Mentoring
Deals most with
succession training
and seeks to help
someone do what
you do
Consulting
Deals most with
problems and seeks
to provide information
(expertise, strategy,
structures, methods)
to solve them.
Coaching
Deals most with
a person’s present
and seeks to guide
him/her into a more
future
Doctor-patient
relationship
(therapist has the
answers)
Older/wiser
younger/less-exp.
relationship
(mentor has answers)
Expert-person
with problem
relationship
(consultant has
answers)
Cocreator-equal
partnership (Coach
helps client
discover her/his own
answers)
Assumes emotions
are a symptom of
something wrong
Older/wiser
younger/less-exp.
relationship
(mentor has answers)
Expert-person
with problem
relationship
(consultant has
answers)
Cocreator-equal
partnership (Coach
helps client
discover her/his own
answers)
Assumes emotions
are a symptom of
something wrong
Is limited to
emotional response
of the mentoring
parameters
(succession, etc.)
Does not normally
address or deal
with emotions
(informational only)
Assumes emotions
are natural and
normalized them
The therapist
diagnosis, then
provides profess-
sional expertise
and guidelines to
give you a path
to healing
The mentor allows
you to observe
his/her behavior
and expertise,
answers questions,
provides guidance
and wisdom for the
The consultant
tands back, eval-
uates a situation,
then tells you the
problem and how works with you to
to fix it.
The coach stands
with you, and helps
you identify the
challenges, then
works with you to
Turn challenges into
victories and hold
you accountable to
much your desired goals
Therapy vs Coaching
Therapy
Coaching
Relieve pain, symptoms
Restore functioning,
History, past
Why?
Patient wants to move away from pain
Focus
Attain specific goals, desires
Create personal fulfillment
Vision, future
How?
Client wants to move toward attractive goals
Medical/clinical model
Diagnosable illness
Paradigm of pathology
Context
Educational/developmental model
Desirable goal/life transitions/personal growth
Paradigm of possibility
Clinician is expert, client is patient
Relationship
Coach as co-creator; a partnership of equals
Orientation is a process; feelings
and inner world
Orientation
Orientation is outcome, action:
inner to outer world
Therapist is responsible for process;
direction; outcome
Responsibility
Coach is responsible for process;
Participant for results
Limited (if any) personal disclosure
Forwards the work through healing,
reparenting, emotions, catharsis
Style
Personal disclosure okay as an aid to learning
Forwards the work through action, talents,
strength, behaviors, insights into actions.
If you believe that life coaching is for you, please contact us.
References:
Williams, P, Davis, D, (2007). Therapist Life Coach: An introduction for counselors and other helping professionals, Revised & Expanded. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.