“The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you’re looking for.”
What You Need To Know About Life Coaching
WHAT IS LIFE COACHING?
Life coaching is a thought-provoking conversation with a focus on solutions over problems.
It is a collaborative, confidential space between a client and a coach, enabling profound change through powerful, non-directive questions.
At its core, life coaching is a pragmatic journey of self-exploration.
Cognitive reframing is one of the many I use in a non-clinical setting. Read more about Cognitive Reframing here.
HOW CAN LIFE COACHING HELP YOU?
Life coaching helps you identify the limiting beliefs that hold you back.
It helps you identify your strengths, develop them, and identify personal and professional goals.
A life coach serves as your thought partner, attentively listening and asking insightful questions to reveal the solutions within you.
Collaboratively, we devise tailored strategies to overcome obstacles, harness your strengths, and pave the way to personal and professional success.
Experience the transformative impact of life coaching: unlock your potential and achieve your aspirations.
How Life Coaching Can Help You
Life coaching helps you identify the limiting beliefs that hold you back.
It helps you identify your strengths, develop them, and identify personal and professional goals.
A life coach serves as your thought partner, attentively listening and asking insightful questions to reveal the solutions within you.
Collaboratively, we devise tailored strategies to overcome obstacles, harness your strengths, and pave the way to personal and professional success.
Experience the transformative impact of life coaching: unlock your potential and achieve your aspirations.
Emotions Reframed: Cognitive Reframing
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”.
Reframing is powerful because it challenges you to rethink something to which you attach negative thoughts.
WHAT IS COGNITIVE REFRAMING?
Reframing is a cognitive behavioural approach used in coaching in a non-clinical setting.
Cognitive Reframing helps you change your perception when it is unhelpful and change your point of view.
It is built on the idea that the frame with which we view a situation determines our point of view. When that frame is shifted, the meaning changes and thinking and behaviour often change along with it.
You may face overwhelming emotions you’ve repressed or kept suppressed for years – looking at them can feel intimidating.
These emotions get in the way, and it seems impossible to find a way to understand what’s happening or find a way around it.
The reframing technique can help you change that.
HOW DOES REFRAMING HELP
Reframing your perspective is an empowering skill. It helps you view things differently so that you can discover, challenge, and modify or replace negative thoughts.
How you think affects how you feel: negative thoughts lead to negative behaviours; positive and productive thoughts lead to positive and productive behaviour.
By reframing your thoughts and emotions, you can restructure your mindset so that you can choose how you respond to your challenges with self-acceptance, acumen, and an open mind.
While, for example, you cannot change negative experiences of your past, you may need to change your thinking about the past if it limits your present self-efficacy.
As you shift your thoughts, you draw more empowering conclusions or experience new feelings about your situation. By countering negative thoughts with positive thoughts, you balance your thinking: what seemed impossible gradually seems inevitable.
As the saying goes: “change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
Life Coaching
VS
Psychotherapy or Counselling
The information below is far from comprehensive and is intended to help you make an informed decision if you are looking for life change support.
The terms “counsellor” and “psychotherapist” are often used interchangeably. Although they have similarities, there are important differences as well.
Overall, counselling is recommended for specific issues and situations, such as addiction or grief, and takes place over weeks to several months.
Psychotherapy, in contrast, tends to explore past issues that might be contributing to present day physical and emotional problems. It often takes place continually or over a period of years.
There often is an overlap between the two types of psychotherapy and counselling.
Just as any form of personal intervention, life coaching is unique. Life coaching is a pragmatic journey of self-exploration.
As your thinking partner, a coach will help you realise your potential and support you to achieve self-initiated transformation in your life, work, relationships and more.
Understanding the differences between, psychotherapy, counselling and life coaching may be helpful in choosing the type of approach that will be most effective for you as an individual.
PSYCHOTHERAPY
- Conducted by professional psychotherapists such as a psychiatrist or psychologist, and trained counsellors, or social workers
- Chronic or recurrent physical and emotional problems
- Focused on the past
- Usually, longer term treatment
COUNSELLING
- Conducted by a (clinical) mental health counsellor on a specific issue
- Focused on present problems or situations
- Up to 6-months treatment
LIFE COACHING
- Conducted by a life coach
- Focused on the future
- Explores past in order to learn
- Provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has
- Usually fixed duration
