Counseling or Coaching

Counseling or Coaching?
Considerations:

Coaching is not reimbursed by insurance companies.
The coaching profession is less regulated than traditional behavioral health professions.

Psychotherapists may coach a client as needed.  A coach, however, may never extend their work into therapy.

Having said that, coaching, by a skilled professional,  can facilitate the changes you require to move forward in your life.  There are all kinds of coaching professionals: life, sports and business coaches, to name a few.  At its foundation, coaching supports a learner or client in achieving a specific or professional goal.  The professional coach uses a range of communication skills to help you shift perspectives and thereby discover different approaches to achieve your goal(s).

A counselor/therapist, on the other hand, is a trained professional who embraces all aspects of conscious and unconscious thought.   Utilizing  knowledge and understanding  of personal, social and existential/spiritual developmental tasks across the lifespan, your therapist will seek to utilize your therapeutic relationship with her to help change and overcome problems of living, to resolve or manage troublesome behaviors, beliefs, compulsions, thoughts or emotions and to improve relationships and social skills.  Please refer to THE PROCESS OF THERAPY/EVALUATION AND SCOPE OF PRACTICE within Office Policies & General Information for further information.

Given this information, you may feel ready to move toward one experience or the other.  If not, talking over your needs, goals and resources with me during our first sessions will also help you to clarify the nature of your problems and help you to refine your initial direction and expectations.

To set up your free 15 minute consultation, 860-215-6648 or email jillemillea@gmail.com.

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