What's the Difference Between Counselling and Coaching?

Professional coaching focuses on creating positive outcomes through identifying goals and managing personal change. Coaching is quite different from counselling. Therapy primarily deals with healing pain, dysfunction, and conflict either within an individual or in their relationships. In counselling, the focus is often on resolving difficulties arising from the past that hamper an individual's emotional functioning in the present; improving overall psychological functioning; and learning how to deal with the present in more emotionally healthy ways.

Coaching, on the other hand, supports personal and professional growth based on self-initiated change in pursuit of specific outcomes linked to personal or professional success. Although positive feelings and emotions are a natural outcome of coaching, the primary focus is on creating actionable strategies for achieving specific outcomes in one's personal or professional life. The emphasis in a coaching relationship are on action, accountability, and follow-through, with the coach supplying supportive, discovery-based approaches, and frameworks to facilitate solutions.
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If You're Looking for More than Just an Accountability Partner, You're in the Right Place.
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However, life is rarely that simple and clear cut. Often the things that are holding us back stem from the past. Through combining traditional psychological strategies with the latest findings from neuroscience, Deborah will not only help you identify specific goals for personal and professional achievement, she will help you identify and recalibrate the unhelpful thinking that is  currently sabotaging your progress. You will no longer have to  'talk yourself into things', or rely on willpower. You won't need to self-sabotage or procrastinate, because when you truly understand what drives you progress becomes natural.

“The benefits of coaching appear to win over even the most cynical clients within just a few weeks.” — INDUSTRY WEEK

Typical Reasons People Seek Coaching:

• Something urgent, compelling or exciting is at stake (a challenge, stretch goal, or opportunity) 
• A gap exists in knowledge, skills, confidence or resources.
• A desire to accelerate results.
• A lack of clarity with choices to be made.
• Success has started to become problematic.
• Work and life are out of balance, creating unwanted consequences.
• Core strengths need to be identified, along with how best to leverage them.

“Coaching helps people in three ways: First, no one gets listened to in life. A coach does listen and allows leaders to reflect about their decisions, and about themselves. Second, people usually avoid difficult truths. Coaching brings reality front and center. Third, people don’t know how to change. A coach can guide a client to find replacements for behavior that’s not working” – 2011 Sherpa Coaching Report

Is Coaching Right for You?

If you're looking for more than just an accountability partner, you're in the right place.

• Become clear about where you are right now, and identify the specific outcomes you wish to achieve.
• Discover the real reasons you're not getting the results that you want (so that you can).
• Replace unhelpful thinking and behaviours.
• Move forward effortlessly by aligning your thoughts and actions with your goals.
• Be given all the resources, strategies, and support you need along the way.
• Bi-monthly face-to-face meetings, together with email and fair use phone support between appointments.

Request a complimentary strategy session to determine the best way to achieve your goals, or get started today by clicking the link below.

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"...In many ways I felt my current business opportunities fell in my lap but I should give us both more credit than that. Clearly you helped me gain enough confidence to negotiate [private outcome]... Whilst I'm hardly a guru at confrontation now, I can honestly say I am less concerned about confrontation with others when it occurs...Upon reflection, it is very easy to draw a correlation between the things we discussed and many of the decisions I have made since. So thanks again on all fronts for the positive impact you've had on my life." ~ M.D., 47  ​