Apples & Oranges
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN COACHING AND THERAPY
Coaching is a professional client-focused service where an individual is assumed to be emotionally healthy and able to achieve goals with effective support, information, and guidance.
Therapy is also awesome and needed. See for yourself how the two differ…
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem – in my opinion – to characterize our age.”
Albert Einstein
 Coaching |  Therapy |
|---|---|
| Assumes the client is whole and complete and has all the resources necessary | Assumes the patient needs healing, is “broken” at some level |
| Roots in sports, business, personal growth | Roots in medical model, psychology |
| Works to move people to higher level of functioning as a result of self-exploration | Works with people to achieve self- understanding and emotional healing |
| Focuses on actions and the future | Focuses on feelings and past events |
| Focuses on possibilities | Focuses on the root of the problems |
| Works with the conscious mind to set up well formed plans | Works to bring the unconscious into consciousness |
| Works for external solutions to overcome barriers, take risks, learn new skills, and implement effective choices | Works for internal resolution of pain |
| Inspiration to perform and achieve | Treatment of clinical disorders |
| Excitement/Evolve matrix | Disease/Heal matrix |
| Explores questions WHAT and HOW | Answers the question WHY |
| Partners with clients to create a new future | Renders help to the patient |
