What is an anxiety coach?
Life/Anxiety Coaching vs. Therapy – What’s the difference?
A therapist is often a counselor or psychologist with either a Masters’s degree, Doctorate, or Ph.D. in their field. Their state licenses them to practice, and they focus on long-term patients. Interestingly enough, many former therapists have left their profession and gone on to become Life Coaches.
Life coaches are usually trained or experienced in their practice area, often focusing on a niche, such as anxiety. They are encouraged to obtain certification; however, what they do is not regulated and does not require them to be certified.
The largest coaching credentialing organization in the world, The International Coach Federation (ICF), states that coaching is “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.”
Coaching vs Therapy
Therapy is about uncovering and recovering. Coaching is about discovering.
Therapy and life coaching each take different approaches to help their clients. While therapists may spend more time examining a patient’s past or looking for a diagnosis to satisfy insurance companies, coaching is more focused on the present and the future.
Coaches seek to establish a more personal relationship with their clients to help them work through their current issues and resolve them. Their less structured environment allows them to work with their clients as a team rather than in a “doctor-patient” relationship.
A life coach’s goal is to offer emotional support and creative confidence in their clients and motivate them to change. An ongoing partnership with their clients helps to produce positive results in both their professional and personal lives.
With a good coach, clients can learn to use the tools and skills they already possess to navigate life.
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