Psychotherapy and Counseling     

Therapy and coaching are not exactly the same.  First, therapy is a highly regulated profession, with education, training and tests to gain licensure.   The practice of therapy is  different from coaching, although overlap exists in that therapists often use some coaching in their therapy work with their clients. Therapy tends to move “backwards” into our emotional pain and wounds, and usually ties our current experience to past events and traumas.

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 Coaching tends to work on problem solving and does not focus on past wounds, or the emotional self.  In coaching one explores moving into the future, defining and setting goals and making our lives expand and develop into what we would like them to be in a more mental way.
After I was well established as a licensed therapist, I added life coaching to my menu of services for several reasons, including:

Life coaching is best suited to people who are “high functioning” and successful, but want some collaboration with a trained professional to help them clarify and enact their goals.

My mission is to help people know that:

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