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counselling OR LIFE COACHING?

Counselling or Life Coaching?

Perhaps this question has crossed your mind.

If you are passionate about human motivation and working with people to improve their lives, it is likely that both Counselling and Life Coaching are careers that may appeal to you.

Perhaps surprisingly, though, despite similarities on the face of it, there are big differences.

COUNSELLING OR LIFE COACHING? A COMPARISON

Here is a brief summary of the major differences between counselling and life coaching:

COUNSELLING /
COUNSELLOR

Commonly refers to the people they help as 'patients'.
Helps patients deal with issues affecting their mental health or mental well-being.
Helps patients resolve issues, problems or traumas related to their past.
Offers advice, support and therapy or therapeutic processes to resolve or lessen the trauma
Encourages patients to vent, discuss, and hopefully release, deeply held emotions and feelings.
Ultimate goal is to help a patient bring closure to a past trauma, addiction, or issue that is affecting them and their ability to lead a 'normal' life.

LIFE COACHING /
LIFE COACH

	Commonly refers to the people they help as 'clients'.
	Helps mentally well clients to accomplish more of what they want from life.
	Helps clients to build brighter, better futures by grounding them in the present.
	Helps clients to access their own inner power using various empowering tools and techniques.
	Encourages clients to share their dreams and construct meaningful goals and action plans to achieve them.
	Ultimate goal is to help a client find his or her life purpose and live in a way that is fully aligned with that purpose. This leads to a happier, more meaningful life

IN SUMMARY ...

Whether you choose a career in counselling or life coaching you'll work closely with people, helping them to improve their lives.

But there are big differences in scope, approach and intended outcomes.

Hopefully you may be beginning to appreciate that:

Counselling is largely oriented towards dealing with issues from the past that are obstructing one from living a normal, constructive life.

Life coaching is oriented towards 'personal-transformation' and living life to the full in the present and future, by harnessing one's inner power, identifying one's purpose and removing self-imposed limitations.

Given the nature of the interactions, counselling can often be challenging, mentally fatiguing and even emotionally distressing for the practitioner.

On the other hand, life coaching is generally more inspiring, uplifting and fulfilling.

WHY NOT consider A CAREER IN life coaching?

We hope you have found this brief comparison, Counselling or Life Coaching useful and interesting.

If you are someone who is passionate about working with and helping other people to improve their lives, then you may well be ideally suited to a career in life coaching!

Here are a few of the pages on our website that we recommend you visit:

What life coaching is and what life coaches do .
Read more about this fascinating profession.

How to become a life coach
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Courses Overview
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