What is Coaching? What is therapy?

Relationship coaching is a professional client-focused service where an individual or couple is assumed to be healthy, powerful, and able to achieve relationship goals with effective support, information, and guidance. There are significant and sometimes contrasting differences between therapy and coaching, and these differences in and of themselves better highlight the strengths of coaching.

Coaching:

Assumes the client is whole

Roots in sports, business, personal growth venues

Works to move people to a higher level of functioning

Focuses on actions and the future

Focuses on solving problems

Works with the conscious mind

Works for external solutions to overcome barriers, learn new skills and implement effective choices

Therapy:

Assumes the client needs healing

Roots in medicine, psychiatry

Works with people to achieve self-understanding and emotional healing

Focuses on feelings and past events

Explores the root of problems

Works to bring the unconscious into consciousness