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When diving into personal development, it’s normal to feel unsure. Therapy offers support for emotional challenges, goal setting, and improvement of mental wellbeing while coaching focuses on less stringent life goals. Understanding these differences can help you choose the right option for your situation. This guide will provide insights into both, helping you clarify what you need to grow and succeed.
Therapy is great for people needing not only a place to process their experiences, but a place to go to heal from trauma, old wounds, and dig deeper into the why. Why and how did this impact me growing up and now still plays a factor into adulthood?
For example, Kayla (hypothetical client) can be seeking out couples therapy because her and her husband are having marital issues and need to figure out the root of the issue, learn some skills and techniques, and understand how to combat these repetitive instinctual drives that were ingrained in them from childhood. That is why therapy would be great for her and her husband.
Coaching is a perfect place to start if this is your first time in a healing space, but you also want someone with knowledge of techniques that are based off of research and multiple studies.
Coaching is helpful for someone who lives in another state outside of Illinois or even another country outside of the US.
What we focus on here is more present focused with less of a concern about your history and background. Lets just say it’s a little lighter than therapy, but still with a great impact.
Coaching may feel less rigid and more chill than your therapy experiences. You may also feel like your coach is like your peer.
However, coaching is NOT therapy.
