Frequently Asked Questions
What is coaching?
Coaching is a professional relationship that supports the achievement of your individually determined goals. You choose the focus of each session's conversation. The coach listens and contributes powerful questions and observations. Through the coaching process the clarity that is needed to support the most effective actions is obtained. Coaching concentrates on where you are now and what you need to do to get where you want to be in the future. The coaching process is a way to accelerate your progress.
What are the benefits of coaching?
Some of the benefits you can expect to experience include new perspectives, greater resourcefulness, increased self confidence, more effective actions, better life balance, and an enhanced sense of personal gratification.
Who is a life coach?
A coach is a person who has specific knowledge, skills, experience and training to help you to achieve the results you desire.
Who hires a coach?
Someone who is high functioning, yet wants to achieve goals that to date have not been obtained. Usually you are successful in many areas of life, but wish to focus on some area or areas that feel out of balance, lacking or generates some frustration. You hire a coach when you want to be in a supportive and encouraging relationship on the journey to desired outcomes. Getting to goals is also more fun when it's done in a collaborative environment.
How does coaching work?
Coaching usually takes place over the phone at regularly scheduled times and are 30 minutes in length. Sessions may be scheduled one or more times monthly and in between sessions you have the opportunity to email the coach, especially when important issues emerge, or just to touch base. All sessions are strictly confidential.
How long is the coaching commitment?
As long or as short as you find workable for you.
How much does coaching cost?
Fees depend on whether sessions are individual or group. There are wide variations in what is charged in the coaching community.
What is the difference between coaching and psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy addresses problems, dysfunction, and emotional pain. The focus is on rehabilitation and healing with the goal of returning the person to the previous normal level of functioning.
Coaching clients are already functioning at normal or above normal levels. The focus is on designing and achieving heart-felt goals to create even more meaning and happiness than you, the client, already experience.
