As a clinical therapist, specializing in complex trauma, for over 25 years, and now the leader of a coaching program I feel excited to share that both have value.
The training of a therapist greatly exceeds that of a coach (A minimum of 6 years of schooling followed by licensure, supervision, and ongoing training each year). Coaches have no official training, no licensure, and no requirement of ongoing education.
However, the traditional therapy model (one hour a week), often does not allow for the daily support or implementation that helps people make radical changes.
Therapy tends to take much longer to achieve results and relies on a therapist giving things to practice outside the session, as well as clients who consistently implement the changes on their own.
Coaching tends to empower people by helping them identify what they want in the future and make the necessary shifts to achieve those goals.
I believe that clinical experience and training allows me to create a very step by step model for coaching that helps people to create new pathways and new ways of “being,” while understanding the underlying complexities of nervous system health, previous life experiences and the need for trauma informed strategies.
My coaching clients are getting results in weeks that were taking many months or even years to achieve in therapy.