Coaching vs Therapy

Therapy

• Assumes the client needs healing
• Roots in medicine and psychiatry
• Works with people to achieve self-understanding and healing
• Focuses on past feelings and events
• Explores the root of problems
• Works to bring the unconscious into conscious
• Works with internal resolution and pain to let go of patterns 

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Coaching

• Assumes the client is whole
• Roots in personal growth venues
• Works to move people to higher levels of functioning
• Focuses on present moment feelings and needs as well as action in the future
• Works with the conscious
• Works with internal and external solutions or strategies to overcome barriers, learn new skills and implement effective choices