Coaching Versus Therapy
Coaching focuses on helping people move from where they are to where they want to be. It is present focused to help obtain a desired future vision or goal. Coaching is not focused on resolving issues of the past, but rather focusing on present problems and obstacles. Coaching helps you to navigate challenges, maximize opportunities, reach your potential, and grow into an even better version of your present self. Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. Coaching focuses on where you presently are and where you are headed. Coaching helps a client walk through a specific challenge or obstacle that is present and discovering a path forward. The client is responsible for the results, taking ownership of doing the work, and committing to new actions at the end of each session to reach their potential, goals, and vision. The coach acts as a catalyst to help the client discover what they need to do. A coach is focused on the development of the client that is specific to their strengths, goals, and vision. In coaching, the coach posits that the client has the answers, and the coach's task is to help pull those answers out by creating a safe space to do so and asking specific questions to get them to where they want to be. The coach's work is done inside the session while it is the client's job to get the work done outside of the session. Click here for more information on what separates coaching from other modalities of help, guidance, and support.
On the other hand, therapy tends to focus more on past traumas and unresolved problems and issues using researched based interventions. Therapy is for when you are experiencing depression, anxiety, chronic stress, and mood dysregulation that is significantly adversely affecting your mood, relationships, behaviors, and work. Therapy focuses on addressing root issues that are causing problems in your life. If you meet the criteria for a diagnosis in the DSM-V such as major depressive disorder or generalized anxiety disorder or if the past is an issue, therapy is the best option, not coaching.
On the other hand, therapy tends to focus more on past traumas and unresolved problems and issues using researched based interventions. Therapy is for when you are experiencing depression, anxiety, chronic stress, and mood dysregulation that is significantly adversely affecting your mood, relationships, behaviors, and work. Therapy focuses on addressing root issues that are causing problems in your life. If you meet the criteria for a diagnosis in the DSM-V such as major depressive disorder or generalized anxiety disorder or if the past is an issue, therapy is the best option, not coaching.
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Serving the North Hills area, including Wexford, Butler, Beaver, Gibsonia, Ross, Warrendale, Cranberry, Pine-Richland, McCandless, Mars, Allison Park, Franklin Park, Hampton, and Pittsburgh
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