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== Difference between coaching, counseling and psychotherapy ==

== Difference between coaching, counseling and psychotherapy ==

[[Coaching]] tends to be future orientated, goal focused and asks the client to be accountable to themselves. Counseling tends to be oriented in equal measure to the past, present and future as well as problem and solution focused but less on [[psychopathology]] than psychotherapy.{{Fact|date=June 2007}} [[Psychotherapy]] tends to deal more with seriously disturbed individuals such as those with [[depression]], [[anxiety]] or [[personality disorder]]. This distinction is not hard and fast however, as in both common and professional usage counseling and psychotherapy are interchangeable, whilst coaching is perceived as different and limited to sports coaching, yet includes therapeutic coaching in its realm. This leads to confusion for both customers and practitioners in a complex service industry that now includes marriage [[mentoring]], for example. The differences are usually to do with the type of training, accreditation and special interests of each type of coach, counselor or psychotherapist.

[[Coaching]] tends to be future orientated, goal focused and asks the client to be accountable to themselves. Counseling tends to be oriented in equal measure to the past, present and future as well as problem and solution focused but less on [[psychopathology]] than psychotherapy. [[Psychotherapy]] tends to deal more with seriously disturbed individuals such as those with [[depression]], [[anxiety]] or [[personality disorder]]. This distinction is not hard and fast however, as in both common and professional usage counseling and psychotherapy are interchangeable, whilst coaching is perceived as different and limited to sports coaching, yet includes therapeutic coaching in its realm. This leads to confusion for both customers and practitioners in a complex service industry that now includes marriage [[mentoring]], for example. The differences are usually to do with the type of training, accreditation and special interests of each type of coach, counselor or psychotherapist.

Coaching arose from management consultancy and leadership training, and has grown into traditional counseling and psychotherapy fields such as [[conflict coaching]] and [[systemic coaching]]. Coaching and counseling tend to arise from a [[humanistic]] and [[Client centered therapy|client-centered]] approach. Counselors attend to both normal social, cultural and developmental issues as well as the problems associated with physical, emotional, and mental disorders. These are nonpathologizing views of the person in context.  A vital ingredient is their view that coaching and counseling are a meeting between practitioner and client, which invites the creative possibilities of [[dialogue]] in contrast to treatment of a disorder and in [[mentoring]], a partnership of colleagues of greater and lesser experience. Many personal coaches and counselors use movement, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral approaches in their work, usually integrating these aspects into the process when appropriate and beneficial to their client.

Coaching arose from management consultancy and leadership training, and has grown into traditional counseling and psychotherapy fields such as [[conflict coaching]] and [[systemic coaching]]. Coaching and counseling tend to arise from a [[humanistic]] and [[Client centered therapy|client-centered]] approach. Counselors attend to both normal social, cultural and developmental issues as well as the problems associated with physical, emotional, and mental disorders. These are nonpathologizing views of the person in context.  A vital ingredient is their view that coaching and counseling are a meeting between practitioner and client, which invites the creative possibilities of [[dialogue]] in contrast to treatment of a disorder and in [[mentoring]], a partnership of colleagues of greater and lesser experience. Many personal coaches and counselors use movement, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral approaches in their work, usually integrating these aspects into the process when appropriate and beneficial to their client.