What Is Coaching?

Coaching tends to focus more on trying to cultivate and learn to leverage your strengths and is uniquely strength based when compared to therapy.  Though coaching may help you to remove unwanted things in your experience, it usually does this in service to allowing something else more prosperous to grow in its place.  Each coach will have a unique style of helping you to do self actualize.  These styles are often based on spiritual traditions like Zen, therapeutic traditions like CBT, or business acumen collected over the course of ones career or study.

Types of Coaching

There are many themes for coaching to play a role in your experience and adjusting your expectations to pick the right theme can often lead to more succinct results.  

• Executive Coaching: often focuses on helping you to make, prioritize, delegate, schedule, and consolidate decisions with confidence.
  
  
• Career Coaching: focuses on helping you to create a professional development plan where a coach helps you to set your own goals and break down objectives to fit them.
  
  
• Life Coaching: can help to create a more authentic relationship with the aspirational self you’d like to self-actualize into, and will challenge you to become that person.
  
  
• Spiritual Coaching: Some people aren’t interested in participating in a direct religion but also feel like something is missing from their overall experience and would like to learn to meditate, take a spiritual inventory of themselves, or explore a higher power, even if that higher power is themselves, their art, a service, or something else important to them.

Payment:

Coaching differs from therapy in that it is not a medical service and thus isn’t reimbursable by your medical insurance.  It can, however, frequently be considered a business expense.  Each of our coaches typically charge $300 per hour-long appointment.