Do I Need Therapy or Mental Health Coaching?
February 21, 2024
Since introducing Mental Health Coaching into our offerings, one frequently asked question is: How do I know if I need Therapy or Mental Health Coaching?
Let’s break it down into the WHY’s (therapy) and the HOW’s (coaching) – formulated out of our Forward Model of Change™, our proprietary Model.
When you ask yourself WHY questions, you are often seeking to develop awareness and cultivate the ability to recognize patterns, with the hope of shifting feelings, patterns, and behaviors. AKA Therapy.
When you ask yourself HOW questions, you are ready to take action by processing all the changes you have made and finding the way to engage with them in your life more fully. AKA Coaching.
In other words, Therapy helps you understand behavior, and Coaching helps you change it.
Here are some examples: Which of the following questions have you thought recently?
- Why am I the way I am?
- Why do I show up in my environments, relationships, and life this way?
- Why is there a constant feeling that just won’t go away?
- Why can’t I make this feeling or way of functioning stop?
- Why do I want to fix myself?
- How do I find more ease in life transitions?
- How do I build more authentic connections?
- How do I connect to the vision I have for my life?
- How do I create vision for my life?
- How do I desire to show up in areas of my life?
