What is the Difference Between Life Coaching & Psychotherapy?
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Do You Offer Both Coaching & Psychotherapy?
Life coaching and psychotherapy often go hand-in-hand. The goal of psychotherapy is to help people feel like they're functioning. Serious problems such as major anxiety, depression or addiction may be getting in the way of life. Psychology will often explore the past through deep feelings, past traumas and childhood to help get to the root cause of the issue. Life coaching will focus more on the future through change and action. It is goal oriented and explores your values, achievements, what makes you happy and what practical actions you can take to reach your goals. Coaching clients are functional people who just aren't quite where they want to be in life. A coach will help them to get there!
Coaching helps you to find and reach satisfaction and happiness in your life. It’s focused on creating and going for your dream life.
Clients who come in for coaching always end up needing the psychotherapy/psychology part as well. When Krista first started out as a life coach she realized she didn’t have the skills to really help clients with the root causes of their issues and this prevented clients from moving forward, caused them to revert to old unhealthy habits and behaviours and prevented them from reaching their goals and keeping them sustainable. She found that getting a masters in psychology helped her to be able to help clients with such things as anxiety, relationships, addictions, changing habits, finding purpose, bearing procrastination, etc. When you look at the psychology behind it and understand why and where issues you have came from, you and your coach/therapist can create lasting change and growth.
That’s why all of our coaches also have psychology backgrounds. The coaching takes people not just to functioning but to happy and joyful. And the psychology helps to understand and work through everything that gets in the way.
Psychology/psychotherapy gets you to functioning but coaching takes functioning people to a happy, satisfied and fulfilled life.
Coaching helps you to find and reach satisfaction and happiness in your life. It’s focused on creating and going for your dream life.
Clients who come in for coaching always end up needing the psychotherapy/psychology part as well. When Krista first started out as a life coach she realized she didn’t have the skills to really help clients with the root causes of their issues and this prevented clients from moving forward, caused them to revert to old unhealthy habits and behaviours and prevented them from reaching their goals and keeping them sustainable. She found that getting a masters in psychology helped her to be able to help clients with such things as anxiety, relationships, addictions, changing habits, finding purpose, bearing procrastination, etc. When you look at the psychology behind it and understand why and where issues you have came from, you and your coach/therapist can create lasting change and growth.
That’s why all of our coaches also have psychology backgrounds. The coaching takes people not just to functioning but to happy and joyful. And the psychology helps to understand and work through everything that gets in the way.
Psychology/psychotherapy gets you to functioning but coaching takes functioning people to a happy, satisfied and fulfilled life.
