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Confidence Coaching or Therapy?

by Vicki Garcia on October 4, 2011

 

“Everybody needs somebody sometime.” This song’s words are about love, but its sentiment is true, nonetheless. Whether you seek love or someone to coach you through a crisis of confidence, everybody does need somebody sometime. How should you determine which “somebody” is best for you? Use these tips to evaluate whether you need a therapist, or a confidence coach.

1. How severe is your need? Are you in anguish, phobic, having trouble sleeping, waking or functioning in life? Have others told you to see a doctor? Therapists are trained in clinical disorders including anxiety, depression, addiction and phobias. If this describes you, read no further, and call your nearest health professional for a therapist referral.

2. Are you functioning well, are basically happy, but have a sense that something’s “missing?” Do you have a goal you consistently are unable to achieve? Have you identified an area about yourself that you are ready, willing and able to take on? You are a candidate for life coaching!

The main difference between therapy and life- or confidence coaching is this fundamental difference: solving a real illness, or working in partnership to achieve a goal. With training in the medical profession, including psychiatry, therapists heal people with unresolved dysfunction. Working with patients, they uncover subconscious and deep-seated patterns and decisions, which compromise a happy, healthy future.

As a highly trained professional coach, I begin with knowing that My Kick Ass™ clients are already highly functioning. We may touch on those deep patterns and anxieties but the focus is always on moving forward. A life coach sees her clients as healthy and capable, but in a temporary setback or stuck place. She trusts her clients’ frame of mind to be sufficiently sound that they can look together to see what needs to happen.

In life coaching, the focus is on goals and actions, and uncovering what’s hindering you. Your vision crystallizes, and in determining what you need to do to create your ideal outcome, blocks that have stopped you become clear and manageable. What appeared as a “problem” becomes a “goal.”

As a coach, I’m a partner for clients to attain their goals, whether by providing simple structures or a bigger “kick.” My Kick Ass Coaching™ is all done with love, and designed for your best outcome.