What is Life Coaching?
Educate yourself about the differences of Life Coaching and Therapy.
What is a Life Coach?
Life coaching is a career and ethical profession. A Life Coach is someone who draws upon their specialized education, life experiences, and training to help others identify and work toward key personal development goals. They typically provide services in one-on-one and group settings through private practices, individual meetings, site visits, and teleconferencing platforms.
Life coaches guide clients to these benefits through a variety of specialized approaches, including targeted questioning, visualization exercises, and reframing techniques. Life coaches address the individual with a “holistic approach”, considering every dimension of a client’s life. Often this includes a client’s quality and level of satisfaction in the following areas: Personal/Wellbeing, Career/Work, Finance, Health, Relationships, Contribution/Legacy, and Spirituality.
Benefits of a Life Coach.
Important Information
While these careers share some similarities, there are significant differences between life coaches and therapists. Some major similarities include a core focus on empowerment through self-awareness and self-improvement. Both life coaches and therapists offer customized and confidential sessions for discussing personal challenges, problems, or struggles. They also aim to improve their client's happiness and personal fulfillment.
"Therapy is about helping you to identify what particular life experiences you've had that limit the way that you show up and how you see yourself in this world," notes Jisun Sunny Fisher, Ph.D., a New Jersey-based licensed psychologist. This observation aligns with the core focus of therapy on confronting and resolving the past.
Meanwhile, life coaching looks toward the future. While life coaches consider their clients' personal histories, they constantly orient them toward empowered, decisive, future-facing action.
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