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FAQ's
What is the main difference between coaching and therapy?
Therapy vs. Coaching:
- Therapy:
- Focus on Healing the Past: Therapists often explore a client’s past experiences to uncover emotional wounds or psychological issues that affect their present. They work within the medical model, focusing on diagnosing and treating dysfunctions, such as anxiety, depression, or trauma.
- Clinical Training and Regulation: Therapists are trained to understand and address mental health challenges and are closely regulated by professional bodies. They diagnose mental health conditions and help individuals recover by managing and reducing symptoms.
- Treatment of Dysfunction: Therapy aims to address emotional wounds, past traumas, mental health challenges, and other obstacles that impact a person’s well-being. For example, a therapist might work with a client who has depression, offering support to help them navigate and overcome their condition.
- Coaching:
- Focus on Future Growth: Coaches are future-focused, guiding clients to achieve specific personal or professional goals, enhance self-love, and unlock their potential. They empower clients by focusing on strengths and aspirations while also helping them understand the origin of certain behaviours, fears, or obstacles. Coaches gently address past wounds or traumas to create awareness, without diving too deep, and support clients in transforming their feelings and behaviours. This process helps clients embrace their evolved selves and align with their goals and dreams.
- Empowerment and Transformation: Life Coaches emphasize self-empowerment, personal growth, and holistic well-being. Their role is to support clients in moving forward and creating actionable strategies for improvement.
- Less Formal, More Flexible: Life Coaches often operate outside the rigorous guidelines that apply to therapists, which allows for more flexibility in their approach. This may appeal to clients who prefer a less formal, more empathetic experience that feels aligned with their current needs, such as boosting confidence or improving self-care.
- Psychologist = The Contractor, who fixes the foundation and repairs the cracks in the walls caused by past trauma, making sure everything is safe and stable.
- Coach = The Designer, who sees the imperfections in the walls as unique features and turns them into beautiful elements of the home. They use those flaws to create a one-of-a-kind space, highlighting the beauty that comes from overcoming challenges.
P.S. Therapy and coaching can complement each other beautifully. While therapy focuses on healing past wounds and ensuring emotional stability, coaching helps individuals build on that foundation, fostering growth, confidence, and a forward-focused mindset. Many people benefit from working with both a therapist and a coach to create a well-rounded path to self-improvement and fulfilment.
What are the most common challenges people seek coaching for?
Coaching can be transformative for anyone, no matter where they are in life. Whether someone is facing obstacles or simply wants to grow and improve, coaching offers a structured way to work through challenges and achieve goals. Here are some of the most common areas where people seek coaching support:
- Clarifying and Achieving Specific Goals: Many clients seek help in setting clear, actionable goals—whether it’s starting a business, improving their health, or finding meaningful relationships. However, often, clients don’t know exactly what they want or how to define it. Without a clear sense of what they’re aiming for, it becomes difficult to create actionable steps to achieve their goals. This is where coaching can make a difference—by helping clients gain clarity and define their goals, we can then create a structured path to move forward and make progress.
- Gaining Clarity and Direction: Many people seek coaching to gain a clearer sense of direction and purpose. Through deep exploration and practical strategies, we uncover a path forward that feels aligned with their values and aspirations.
- Managing Stress and Emotions: Clients often come to coaching to navigate stress, regulate emotions, and achieve a greater sense of calm and balance in their lives.
- Boosting Self Confidence: A key area where coaching is impactful is in helping people build their self-esteem, embrace their worth, and develop a positive self-image.
- Overcoming Limiting Beliefs: Coaching helps clients recognize and break through beliefs that are holding them back, unlocking their full potential and opening new possibilities.
- Seeing and Embracing their Value: Coaching helps clients recognize their worth, empowering them to adapt to new circumstances, look forward with optimism, and work towards their goals. Through this process, clients transform their behaviors and mindset, shifting the way they see themselves and the world around them. This shift is essential for aligning with their goals, dreams, and the version of themselves they want to become.
Is coaching only for people facing major challenges, or can it help people who are already doing well in life?
Coaching isn’t just for those facing major challenges—it’s also a powerful tool for people who are already doing well but want to grow even further. Even when life is going smoothly, there’s always room for improvement, whether it’s building confidence, enhancing performance, improving communication, or refining personal and professional goals.
It can also help with gaining clarity, managing stress, and overcoming limiting beliefs that might be holding someone back from reaching their full potential. Coaching isn’t just about fixing problems; it’s about unlocking new possibilities, making intentional progress, and creating a life that truly aligns with one’s dreams and aspirations.
What can I expect from the discovery call?
This free session isn’t just about getting to know each other—it’s also about understanding what coaching really is and how it can work for you. Coaching isn’t therapy, and it’s not about giving you a list of generic solutions. It’s about unlocking your own potential and helping you see possibilities you might not have considered before.
Maybe you already have a goal but feel stuck on how to achieve it, or perhaps you sense that something in your life needs to change, but you’re not quite sure what. This Discovery Call is the perfect first step toward gaining clarity and insight. It’s a no-pressure conversation where we’ll explore what’s holding you back, identify what you want to achieve, and begin envisioning a path forward. While this call won’t solve everything, it will provide a clearer direction for what comes next, and we’ll talk about how coaching can continue to support your growth and transformation.
You’ll also learn more about what coaching is, how it works, and whether it’s the right fit for you. By the end of the call, you’ll have a clearer sense of where you are right now and the possibilities ahead, as well as a better understanding of how coaching can support you on your journey.
This call is completely free, with no obligations—just an honest conversation to explore how coaching can support your journey and help you move toward the version of yourself you’re working to become.
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How does the coaching process work, and what can I expect from our sessions?
In our sessions, you’ll be guided through the process of self-discovery and growth. Together, we’ll explore what drives you, uncover limiting beliefs, and identify goals that resonate with your values. I’ll ask insightful questions and provide tools that help you gain clarity, but ultimately, it’s you who will create your own practical steps forward.
You’ll leave each session with a clearer sense of direction, empowered to take action and shift your mindset. As we progress, I’ll help you develop accountability skills, guiding you in finding the right accountability partners or systems that work best for you to stay on track.
The pace of your progress is entirely in your hands. I’m here to support you, but it’s your journey, and you’re the one creating the path forward. Together, we’ll ensure you’re always moving toward the version of yourself you want to become.
How long does it take to see results from coaching, and how do we measure progress?
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- Clarity and Action: One of the first signs of progress is gaining clarity on what you truly want and taking aligned action steps toward it.
- Mindset Shifts: Feeling more confident, resilient, or empowered in daily life is a key indicator of growth.
- Behavioural Changes: Making different choices, responding to challenges with more ease, and breaking unhelpful patterns show real progress.
- Feedback and Self-Reflection: Checking in regularly—whether through journaling, self-assessments, or discussions—helps recognize shifts that might not be immediately obvious.
Ultimately, coaching is a collaborative process. The more open and engaged the client is, the faster and deeper the transformation will be.
