Counseling | Coaching |
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| Counseling is working with a patient | Coaching is working with a client |
| Counseling is asking the question Why | Coaching is asking the questions: How, What and What If? Focused on results not the reason Why |
| Counseling works with a person’s PAST and traumatic events therein, and seeks healing of those events | Coaching is interested in a person’s PRESENT and works to help them in creating a compelling FUTURE |
| Counseling diagnoses mental ILLNESSES and attempts to deal with identifiable conditions | Coaching assumes that the client is HEALTHY (not broken) Presupposes that people work perfectly to produce the results they are getting even if the results are not desirable. If a person doesn’t like the results they are getting, coaching provides tools to help them get the results they desire |
| Counseling is like a Doctor/Patient relationship where the DOCTOR has the solution | Coaching is a partnership of equals where the coach encourages the client to find his/her OWN solutions already on their map (but perhaps unnoticed) |
| Counseling is about conversing which encourages the patient to TALK about and thereby resolve old pain and symptoms to get rid of them Counseling is about fixing the patient by fixing the PAST | Coaching helps the client to discover the PROCESS which s/he prevents the achievement of goals and objects and learn new ways of thinking |
| Counseling relies on studies and manuals to DIAGNOSE pathology | Coaching is about understanding the past as a framework for the present and creating the FUTURE. Coaching is a model of LEARNING and potentiality which focuses on the future and its achievable goals and outcomes |
| In counseling a Therapist WON’T TALK about him/herself | In coaching when appropriate the coach SHARES her experience which is vital to learning |
| In counseling progress is often SLOW | In coaching changes are FAST and FUN |
| In counseling a Therapist diagnoses and then PRESCRIBES a path to healing | In coaching coach aligns mentally with the client and they CO CREATE the solution. The client is responsible for the outcomes and always has control over his/her results |
