Category: Integrative Medicine

Counseling vs. Coaching: Which one to choose?

10/29/2019

It is understandable that counseling and health coaching can seem to be the same thing:

Both help clients who want to make a behavioral change for the better.
Both provide the client with full awareness of their current circumstance.
Both serve as a resource and support to the client while working on the goal.
Both provide one-on-one confidential interactions.

Here's where they differ though:

A counselor or therapist...	A health coach...
diagnoses mental and emotional issues (e.g. depression, OCD, etc.) that cause the current undesirable behavior.	does not diagnose the client.
explores and analyzes the client's past traumas and experiences to understand the current behavior (problem-oriented).	focuses on what the client wants to change and their current potential for a lasting change (goal-oriented).
is the expert and authority when interacting with the client.	serves as a guide, acknowledging the client as the expert on their own life.
may ask the client to share very personal information.	allows the client to share only as much as is comfortable.

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What is Integrative Health Coaching?

6/4/2019

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You go to the doctor and are told the familiar, "you need to lose weight", "you have to lower your blood pressure", or "your diet needs to improve". Easier said than done!

Being told what you need to do to improve your health is all good and well; but, how to do it is a different story. "I am busy with work." "I have a family to take care of." "I don't have the finances." "I don't know where to start!" When you need to take what your doctor says and put it into action, that's where your integrative health coach comes in!

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What is Integrative Health?
Integrative health focuses on the well-being of the whole person, including the mind, body, and spirit. The core principle of integrative health is that each of the three aspects of the whole person affects the other two. Therefore, disease can be cured, prevented, or reduced by giving the right amount of care and attention to all three aspects. For example, high blood pressure can be caused by a combination of obesity (body), work stress (mind), and emotional stress (spirit).

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Counseling vs. Coaching: Which one to choose?

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