Difference between Coaching and Therapy
Difference between Coaching and Therapy
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- Seeking focus, strategy and motivation
- Eager to move to a higher level of functioning
- Asking “how to”
- Designing their future, learning new skills and seeking more balance in their lives
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- Psychologically dysfunctional in a some way
- Seeking self-understanding
- Asking “why”
- Dealing with old issues, emotional pain or traumas, seeking resolution and healing
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- Begins with premise the client is whole
- Refers individuals with prolonged depression, severe anxiety, phobias, harmful addictions and destructive or abusive behaviour patterns to mental health professionals
- Primary focus on actions and the future
- Oriented toward solving problems through action
- Works mainly with the conscious mind
- Assists the clients in identifying, prioritizing and implementing choices
- Helps client learn new skills and tools for personal growth and mastery
- Helps client get clear on his or her own values and align actions to them
- Encourages and requests proactive behaviour
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- Begins with the premise that client needs healing
- Treats individuals with prolonged depression, severe anxiety, phobias, harmful and destructive or abusive behaviour patterns
- Primary focus on feelings and history
- Works to bring unconscious into conscious
- Assists the client in untangling unconscious conflicts which interfere with choices
- Helps client resolve old pain and terminate old coping mechanisms.
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- Focused on recognizing and developing potential
- Main tools include accountability, inquiry, goal-setting and strategy
- Deals mainly with external issues, looks for external solutions to internal blocks
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- Focused on healing and restoring functioning
- Main tools include listening, reflecting, confrontation and interpretation
- Deals mainly with internal issues; looks for internal resolution
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Source: Hayden and Whitworth’s Distinction between Coaching and Therapy |
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