What is Coaching?
Coaching is a partnership between a coach and client to facilitate the creation/development of personal, professional, or career goals and to develop and carry out a strategy/plan for achieving those goals.
Coaching is NOT therapy, counseling or advice giving and is not a substitute for psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, mental health care, substance abuse treatment, legal, medical or other professional services. Coaching does not prevent, cure, or treat any mental disorder or medical disease.
Coaching vs. Therapy
Coaching
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Focuses on personal development
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Future oriented & helps you achieve goals
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Does not diagnose conditions of any kind
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Seek to empower & self discovery
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Partner relationship
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Facilitate self-discovery
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Asks "What's possible?"
Therapy
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Focuses on mental health
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Past oriented & helps work through trauma
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Can diagnose health conditions & disorders
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Seek to remove pain
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Provider/Patient relationship
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Practice based on medical model
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Asks "What's the problem?"