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Are you entangled in difficult
relationships or painful emotions?
We can coach you to untangle your life ... and reclaim your freedom.
We also mentor helping professionals to work with difficult people.
Get Ready to Change
Define and get what you want! To
help you do this, we can help you clarify relationship issues,
dissolve emotional blocks and end any self-sabotage. We can help you change
limiting beliefs and gain lasting relief from past trauma ... and especially
from relationship disappointments.
If you are a helping professional, please check -
have you specialized in your own issues? Would you be jealous of your clients if they
improve and you don't? Are you sabotaging yourself - and your clients? Do you
feel stressed, upset or hooked by your clients' unpleasant stories? Are you creating authoritarian,
parental, symbiotic or codependent client relationships? If we mentor you, we
will probably explore these and similar issues ... and we can help you solve
them!
Do you want coaching or therapy? The following table
is adapted from Therapist as Life Coach: Transforming Your Practice
by Dr. Patrick Williams, Ed.D, MCC.
| Coaching |
Psychotherapy |
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For healthy people who desire better situations |
For patients with
identifiable dysfunctions |
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Deals mostly with a person’s goals and blocks and seeks to
help people |
Deals mostly with patients' past trauma, and seeks to heal
patients |
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Helps people learn or improve skills to build mature, satisfying
relationships and to achieve goals |
Helps patients resolve old pain and suffering |
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Co-creative equal partnership (coaches help people explore their
blocks and solve their problems) |
Doctor-patient relationship (therapists provide patients with
diagnosis and interventions) |
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Emotions are perceived as natural and normal |
Emotions are perceived
as unnatural and abnormal |
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Growth and progress are often rapid and enjoyable |
Growth and progress are often slow and painful |
| A coach helps people identify their goals and
blocks, then walks with them to success, holding people accountable
for reaching their own goals. |
A therapist provides
patients with professional
expertise and guidelines to diagnose problems and provide patients
with a path to
healing. |
Our coaching is structured, usually aimed at
specific goals or resolving specific complaints, and is fairly brief
(typically 5-15 sessions). We will often offer you homework to do between sessions to
help you learn to coach or mentor yourself.
To accelerate your success, we suggest that you ...
- Consider what you really want. If you want to
work on one issue, it probably should be important - especially if it is something
that you need to fulfill other significant goals or to prevent something that sabotages you - e.g.
I want to replace chronic anger with a sense of peace.
- Describe what you want as clearly as you can.
E.g., if your goal is a happy family, do you want to change your habits,
find a new partner, change your relationship with a relative, or what?
- Take responsibility for your life. We can
help you dream great dreams, and then find ways to make them reality. We can walk
with you through your metaphoric mountains and jungles. We can encourage and
support you on almost every step to making your dreams come true.
- Reach for your own goals. We help people take action.
If you want someone else to change ... consider how you can motivate that other person
to act in the way you prefer.
- Ask us questions about what you want. We
may ask you unusual questions to expose important insights, and we may make
unreasonable requests to provoke or motivate you.
- Deal with what you can before your session.
We probably don't need to know so much of your history. Your future success is
probably more important than your past disappointments.
- Prepare - help us work together towards your
future and your goals ...
fill out a background form (below) before your first session
and e-mail to us it so that we have your background information.
- Review each session with us. Consider what you
learn from each session, and what we may be able to accomplish during our
next meeting.
- Feedback - let us know what is of most value to
you. Let us know what's working and what you find less useful.
- Breakthrough = Insight + Action! Insight without
action is like a kiss on the cheek; it's briefly interesting but rarely
inspirational. Use your insights to inspire action!
Prepare yourself before each session ...
relax and review what you hope to change.
Request for Coaching or Mentorship
Please copy and paste this into your email program, and fill
it out there.
This is a way to save time ... if any question seems too private,
please withhold the information until you
feel comfortable.
Name: ________________________________
Profession ________________ Age _____
Phone: ________________________________
Email : ______________________________
About yourself:
Family: _______________________________________________________________________
Education: ____________________________________________________________________
Interests: _____________________________________________________________________
2.
What are your top three important goals or things that you wish to change?
1. ____________________________________________________________________________
2.
____________________________________________________________________________
3.
____________________________________________________________________________
What would convince you that you have achieved
your three important goals?
1. _____________________________________________________________________________
2.
_____________________________________________________________________________
3.
_____________________________________________________________________________
What seems to stop you reaching your three
important goals?
1. _____________________________________________________________________________
2.
_____________________________________________________________________________
3.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Where are you now with your life?
Health: ________________________________________________________________________
Wealth: ________________________________________________________________________
Happiness: _____________________________________________________________________
Relationships: ___________________________________________________________________
If you have tried coaching / counseling /
therapy / etc before, what happened?
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
Your relationships ... what's working / not working between
you and your:
Father: _________________________________
Mother: _______________________________
Partner: ________________________________
Ex-Partners: ___________________________
Children: ________________________________
Friends: _______________________________
Boss : __________________________________
Colleagues: ____________________________
Other: __________________________________
Other: _________________________________
Your emotions ... when do you feel:
Anger: _________________________________
Peace: _________________________________
Sadness: ______________________________
Joy: ____________________________________
Fear: __________________________________
Courage: ________________________________
Guilt : _________________________________
Happiness: ______________________________
Other: _________________________________
Other: __________________________________
What else seems important:
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
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