How is coaching different from or similar to therapy?
Counseling and therapy are about healing something and typically focus on past issues and/or current emotional problems. Coaching focuses on perfecting the present in order to create desired future outcomes and is very action-oriented. It may be that they have had unsatisfactory success in moving some of their goals forward and are now ready to take action. Like good therapists, good coaches bring skills, integrity and truthfulness to the process of supporting the client’s progress towards his/her own objectives. Coaching clients who surface therapy issues are referred to therapists/counselors.
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