What is Coaching?
Coaches help clients to close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. To determine what this gap is, a coach asks the client questions, with one answer often leading to another question until the real issues are isolated.
Talk therapy is the main tool that I use. Talk therapy works best in either one-on-one sessions, or in small groups with a common goal. Skills development is the second, major component of relationship coaching which I employ. From my experience, lack of skills in communication, conflict resolution, and honesty with the self often underlie relationship problems.
What is the Difference Between Coaching and Therapy?
While coaching explores your past to understand your habits and choices, the main goal of coaching is to start in your present and work with you toward a better future. Coaching is geared towards how a person can make behavioral changes now to reach a particular goal. Therapy, on the other hand, aims to understand why a person is behaving in particular ways in order to come to a place of mental wellness. Generally, therapy does so through going more into the past, in order to establish the roots of issues.
