Therapeutic Coaching

What is Coaching?

• Coaching in today's fast-paced world provides a way for individuals to speed-up the learning curve in acquiring skills or navigating through personal or professional developmental processes.
• Using a coach is like taking a "fast-track" to personal or professional development. can markedly reduce the learning curve in developing new skills.
• Coaching is a method of assisting individuals or groups to improve their performance in some areas that are identified by their employer or individuals are looking for self-development themselves.
• A goal is set to resolve the challenge or accomplish the desired outcome.
• The collaboration between client and coach creates a relationship that promotes taking action on what areas need improvement for the client to achieve his or her goals.
• Coaching creates an environment for clients to develop the necessary attitudes, skills, and knowledge to meet their goals.

In therapeutic coaching, clients are ENABLED to:

• Get clear about what they want to do by setting a goal.
• Look at patterns and behaviors that are not useful to them anymore.
• Realize their strengths and their potential, personally and professionally.

In therapeutic coaching, clients are EQUIPPED with:

• Activities to develop the action steps they need to take to attain what they want.
• Support to facilitate their goal attainment.
• New skills and psychoeducational tools to assist growth.

In therapeutic coaching, clients EVOLVE by:

• An understanding of themselves on a holistic level.
• An appreciation of their values and the beliefs that gives them more purpose.
• Life’s challenges are now seen as interpersonal in nature.

Adlerian psychotherapy and the field of coaching share many commonalities.

• Both approaches look at people from an optimistic, holistic perspective, attempting to understand people within their current social field and across all domains of life.
• Both Adlerian therapists and coaches share the perspective that they are most able to help a client when they are able to establish an egalitarian relationship.
• Both view the practitioner-client relationship as an active co-participation that initially involves aligning goals, and they see the process as one of education.
• In both processes the more precisely goals are defined, the more rapid and effective the process is thought to be.
• Adlerian therapists and coaches advocate hope and a supportive stance with the client.
• In both, the practitioner is active, interested, noncritical, and respectful, emphasising an egalitarian relationship.
• The relationship is seen in both as safe, emotionally supportive, and respectful of the client's current experience.
• Processes in both Adlerian psychotherapy and coaching ultimately focus on helping individuals live lives that honor their highest priorities.
• In both models, the challenges of daily living and their successful resolution are largely seen as being interpersonal in nature.