Therapists who learn the business of Personal Coaching will find that they really enjoy their clients and can even have a level of friendship and community that is not proper nor possible in traditional psychotherapy. Coaching by phone is not dependent on geography it s portable, convenient, and more confidential than traditional therapy AND you work with highly motivated people who want to overcome the gap between where they are and where they want to be in their profession and their personal life. Distinction Between Coaching and Therapy Psychotherapy generally deals with emotional or behavioral problems and often deals with the past or current disruptive situations.
Therapists generally work with a dysfunction to bring the client to normal function.
Therapy is usually done in-person, although at times, it may be done over the telephone. Coaching, whether done in person or through telecoaching, is for already successful, functional persons who want to move toward higher function and achieve excellence while creating an extraordinary life. Coaching is a process similar to solution focused techniques that therapists use for less serious psycho-emotional problems and life stresses. Since 1997, Dr. Patrick Williams has mentored dozens of therapists, counselors, mental health professionals, marriage and family therapists, and psychologists who were interested in adding coaching to their practice or becoming full-time coaches. He founded Therapist University in 1998 to train therapists in building a coaching business.