Is a holistic health coach like a therapist?
No. The focus in therapy is on inner change, while the focus in coaching is on movement toward making and achieving realistic goals that become regular sustainable behaviors. In coaching, we explore your overall vision, whether this concerns professional advancement, changing habits, working towards optimal health, decreasing stress, improving relationships (remember, this all affects your health). Coaching focuses on achieving dreams, taking action, creating momentum, deepening self knowledge yet always in service of increasing forward movement and stretching further than before. In working with a coach, you may refer to the past or have tearful emotional moments, but they are brief points in the process of moving forward and taking action rather than the focus of the session. You will put events in a healthy perspective, and not have past define present or future. Personal exploration happens in coaching too, but typically the emphasis is less on gaining extensive insight and more on action and taking the learning into one’s life soon.
