Ever wonder What’s the difference between coaching and counseling?
What’s the Difference Between Coaching and Counseling?
Counseling is about healing.
Coaching is about fulfilling.
When you work with a counselor, you are feeling sadness, anxiousness or other emotional/mental distress. You need healing. Counselors help you through the process of healing.
When you work with a coach, you are feeling that something has to change:
- you need a new job because you’ve been downsized, you’re graduating from college, or you just know there’s a better fit somewhere
- you are in a quarter-life crisis or mid-life crisis and know there has to be more for you
- you’ve been through relationship loss and you want to rediscover and recreate yourself
- you feel like you’d like to know yourself better, to fulfill all God created you to be
- you want to rebrand yourself
- you want a deeper walk with God
- you want to do the pre-marital work of SYMBIS
Your coach walks with you through the process of fulfilling your growth process.
Coaching is usually very non-directive. Your coach will ask you “powerful questions” that guide you through your own self-discovery process. Coaches are not consultants who tell you what to do (although they may suggest some resources for you to explore). Instead, coaches know that you already have your future inside you, it simply needs to be discovered.
Coaching loosely follows a 3-part process:
- Discover: Clarify your knowledge about yourself, uncover new knowledge about yourself
- Dream: Allow yourself to dream big dreams for your personal, relational and/or professional present and future
- Develop: Build the skills you need for next steps, create your brand, define your mission and vision, set SMART goals
When you have an initial meeting with a coach, she will generally:
- ask you about yourself
- ask you what your goals for coaching are
- help you get started on the adventure of fulfilling your goals
- suggest resources, if appropriate
- help you choose homework/out-of-session work and set SMART goals
The following sessions will include:
- celebrating your successes
- clarifying long-term goals
- setting goals for that session
- suggest resources, if appropriate
- help you choose homework/out-of-session work and set SMART goals
Coaching is SUCH a rewarding, life-changing experience. Don’t wait until you are desperate! Contact me to get YOUR coaching started!
But if you already are desperate for a change, for becoming who God truly created you to be, hurry and contact me. Let’s get the coaching process started. We will work in person if you are local or by phone or Skype if you are not.