Coaching and counseling help clients move forward and establish a solid foundation of value and purpose.
Counseling delves into past experiences and emotions to heal wounds, while coaching focuses on future-oriented goal-setting and skill-building.
With coaching, clients harness strengths to overcome obstacles and achieve success, fostering empowerment and self-discovery. With counseling, clients seek to understand how past experiences contribute to unhelpful behaviors.
Coaching | Counseling |
|---|---|
| Future-focused: work toward goals. | Focus varies: Clients may need to first work to understand how past experiences impact the present before moving forward. |
| Action-oriented: client sets and works towards goals according to their values and beliefs. | Action oriented but also exploratory: client may need to first understand the source of emotional responses and behaviors before moving forward. |
| Does not diagnose conditions, but serves as a sounding board when exploring choices, and promotes mindset and emotional management. | Is able to treat common problems in living as well as significant mental health issues like clinical depression, active addiction, self-harm, trauma, complex relationship problems, etc.. |
| Strategy focused. Encourage action and work towards goals that are typically straight forward and understood. New insights emerge but few "hidden issues" trouble the process. | Work towards goals while allowing for flexibility and complexity as new insights occur. Often work with clients for longer periods. |
| Seek to empower and enable self-discovery through action, troubleshooting and bold experimentation. | Seeks to provide corrective emotional experiences and a safe place to process complex issues, enabling client growth and change. |
| Work alongside you as a partner. | Licensed healthcare professional helping you in a boundaried clinical relationship. |
| Typically not covered by insurance insurance | Covered by insurance if accepted by the provider. |