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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

The Difference between Coaching and Therapy

As I'm now a student again - I've enrolled in classes back at my alma mater NYU - I'm going to be sharing some of my learnings...

The Difference between Coaching & Therapy

Coaching is collaborative, creative, empowering, self-directed, goal oriented, positve and specific. Therapy is clinical, requires expertise in diagnosis and assessment, is problem focused, healing, and deals often with the past.

Coaching is a learning developmental model that focuses on goals and possibilities. Therapy is a medical clinical model that deals with identifiable dysfunctions.

As a coach my role is as a catalyst for change. I offer perspectives and help clients discover their own answers. As a coach I'm responsible for the process, the client is responsible for results.