Therapy or Coaching? What’s right for me?

If you’re here, you are feeling an inner motivation for change. That’s fantastic! That’s the first step towards so many wonderful changes that will improve your life. The next question you must answer is whether therapy or coaching is right for you. I believe that they are oftentimes complementary, so don’t think that this has to be one or the other. Sometimes, the right answer is BOTH!

Therapy is deep inner work for resolving mild to severe psychological problems. If you have active addictions, trauma or difficulty functioning day-to-day, therapy is the right option. Therapists take insurance; most coaches do not. 

Life coaching is for people who are already functioning ok and want more. Another way of explaining the difference between therapy and coaching is that therapy takes people from bad to better, or from struggling to functioning. Coaching comes in at this place: you are functioning but want more. You are ok, but you want to feel great. Coaching is about optimizing.

Life coaching can be divided into two main types:

1. Targeted Life Coaching is about goal setting and achieving specific outcomes, such as business coach who would help you build out your business, learn how to market, or solve business problems. A business coach is not going to do deep emotional and/or spiritual work with you, nor should they! Their trainings are specific to their area of expertise.

2. Transformational Life Coaching is for transforming who you are, how you show up, and typically involves deeper emotional and spiritual work. It may be profoundly healing! Unlike therapy, transformative coaching will not focus on immediate recovery and/or provide strategizes for dealing with active trauma and addiction. Instead, transformative coaching asks you to dig deeper, dream bigger, and get in touch with who you are and who you want to be. Who are you? How do you want to show up in the world? How has the past held you back from being that person? What do you need to transform? If you have these questions or others like it, you have come to the right place! This is my area of expertise and my zone of genius.

I invite you to consider what’s possible when you are willing to do the deep inner work that’s necessary for you to step into your greatness.

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