What's the difference between therapy and life coaching?
I love this question and I’m grateful to have found another coach who articulates the difference so well! Here is a great comparison from Katherine Purser:
What's the difference between therapy and life coaching?
This is the way I like to think of it:
A life coach to a therapist is like a physical therapist to an orthopedic doc. Both are valuable and both serve important roles in health.
If you had a torn ACL you'd see the orthopedic doc. If you have knee pain from squatting or life in general, you'd see a physical therapist to assess your movement patterns.
Life coaching works primarily with emotionally well people and helps with creating results they want in life by identifying thought habits keeping them stuck. We improve confidence, self-worth, relationships. We focus more on the present and future goals and client-empowered solutions.
Therapy often focuses on using the past to understand the present and can help those with clinically diagnosed mental and emotional health illnesses.
You can see more of Katherine work and words here: https://www.instagram.com/katherinepurser/
I cannot speak highly enough about the value of the education I received from The Life Coach School. I have chosen to take my life coaching education and specifically apply it to athletes via performance mindset training. The same description above is relevant to those that I work with: emotionally well people who are seeking help creating the results they want in their lives. This work is so rewarding and powerful. If you’re interested in learning more about what I do, click the Learn More button below to schedule a free mini session .
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