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How do you know if coaching is the right step for you, or if you should see a therapist instead? Choosing between a life coach and a therapist can be confusing since both offer support and guidance. Life coaches and therapists provide value in different ways.

People go into therapy because they’re experiencing significant symptoms and significant issues that are interfering with their lives in some way. It might be interfering with their social lives. It might be interfering with their work life, their home life. And they want to fix that. They might have anxiety, depression, which manifests in fears or cognitive distortions. That’s what they want to do in therapy, is fix those things. Therapy really is focused on helping people heal.

Whereas in coaching, most people are coming from a point of functioning everyday. And they want to transform and become even better and even more productive, even more successful. And they want to be transformed and inspired and focus on that. So they’re not necessarily looking to fix anything. A life coach will meet them where they are and take them even further which focuses on setting and achieving personal or professional goals as well as learning practical coping skills.

People will gain insight into themselves in both situations. In coaching, people are developing insight into what their strengths are, what their next course of action is to elevate themselves further. And so there’s this unique and common thread of self awareness and self insight.