How is coaching different from therapy?

coaching therapy Jul 07, 2020
 

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Ok another common questions about coaching is
How is coaching different from therapy?
Now I would say in my experience
and I'm trained in both
there's two broad kind of differences.
One is coaching is about moving forward
about achieving something in the future
heading towards it
putting things in place to help you do that.
That's a very broad definition of coaching.
Whereas therapy tends to be much more
about the past. Understanding something from
the past, making some sense of it until it
stops being a block or some kind of
limit in your life now.
So that's the broad difference
between coaching and therapy.
Coaching is about the future
Therapy is about the past.
Of course, what will often happen
is you will find something you want to
move towards but you find something
perhaps in the past
that's holding you back.
A good coach, and that's why I've had
therapy training as well, will be able
to handle those mental blocks,
those issues that are standing in your way
that come from the past.
So a good coach will also have some
therapeutic kind of training and abilities
but their emphasis is on moving you forward
to something that you want.
Whereas in therapy it's about the past and
dealing with something in the past and
you may need to bring that in to the coaching
environment to help out.
That's the difference as I see it. If you
think differently I'd love to see
some comments below and love to hear
what you think too.

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