Tips | emi-lifecoaching

What is Coaching

Coaching is, in general terms, the process of coming along side someone and helping them identify where they are, where they want to be, and how to get there.

What is Coaching

What coaching is not versus what coaching is

Coaching is not

•Psychology

•Counseling

•Therapy

•Consulting

•Advising

•Mentoring

Coaching IS

•Connecting – Listening, understanding, empathizing

•Accountable – Results Driven, Follow-through, Achievement, Focused

•Motivation - Motivating client to move forward

•Ethics - A relationship built on honesty, trust and respect.

•Sustainable - Help client achieve lifetime long-term results.

Comparison between counseling and coaching

COUNSELING

•Counseling involves moving from a state of dysfunction to function.

•Counseling involves spending time examining the past of the clients, assisting them with dysfunction and emotional issues, and treating a specific diagnosis.

•Counseling is a medical professional/patient relationship. More serious and deeper issues require counseling (those issues creating significant impairment on daily functioning).

•In most cases, insurance will pay for counseling when it involves treating a diagnosable issue. Professional counseling can only be provided by a licensed mental health professional.

COACHING

•Coaching involves helping a client reach specific goals and forming a partnership with the client to reach those goals. It is less formal and structured than counseling.

•Coaching can take place in person, or over Skype/Facetime. Coaches work with healthy clients who want to improve their circumstances.

•Insurance will not pay for coaching because it does not involve the treatment of a diagnosable issue.

•Coaches form a plan that uses the client’s strengths, provide accountability and support, and give the client tools and resources to navigate through life.

•Coaching is more proactive and preventative, meaning that clients are already functioning well but want to function at an even higher level.