Life coaching is a specific safe, guided process of interaction and self-discovery over a period of time that encourages and expands your ability to make significant changes, move forward in new areas and create more of what you want in your life. Coaching services are not to be construed as, or a replacement for psychotherapy. legal counsel , or medical advice.
Life coaches help the clients they work with focus on identifying and moving towards personal and, at times, professional goals. Through focused coaching support, clients can learn healthy and helpful ways of navigating through challenges in creating a life they feel excited about.
It may be interesting to learn that life coaching is rooted in clinical theory, often drawing on the work of Dr. Carl Rogers, Dr. Alfred Adler, and Dr. Carl Jung.
Rogers, Adler and Jung saw individuals as fully capable artists of their lives, and frequently involved their clients in goal setting and life planning. These are all tenets and approaches in today’s life coaching methods.
Coaching takes the best of those approaches, along with a new type of assistance for clients, such as:
- Working with the client to help them define life dreams and goals
- Formulating a plan that will foster and grow the client’s skills and talents
- Helping the client navigate difficult challenges in reaching their goals
- Teaching tools and providing materials to assist the client
- Helping the client with focus and accountability
- Providing structure, encouragement and support
- Providing intentional and empathetic listening
