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Psychotherapy
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Life
Coaching
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Can
work from an illness model and it treats diagnosis.
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Does not treat diagnosis
and it works directly with the clients' goals.
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Work on Issues.
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Work on goals.
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Focuses on past, present
and future.
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Focuses on present and the
future.
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Deals with emotional or behavioral
problems, with past or current disruptive situations, and
with dysfunction to bring the client to normal function.
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Works with already successful,
functional person who wants to move toward higher function
and achieve excellence, while creating an extraordinary life.
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Remaining safe in own comfort
zone.
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Moving beyond one’s own comfort
zone.
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Most orientations are Process
Oriented.
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Result Oriented.
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Provides a space for client
to gain insight, work on suppressed emotions, and reevaluate
their defenses. Recognize irrational beliefs, and learn skills
to minimize symptoms and live healthier lives.
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Through a process of inquiry
and personal discovery, coach and client work together to
build client’s awareness and responsibility while providing
feedback, tools, support and structure to accomplish more.
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The Therapeutic relationship
is essential. The relationship can be used as a model for
the client to utilize in other relationships.
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Coach & Client relationship
is not a determining factor, however it is a partnership that
helps clients achieve fulfillment in their personal and professional
lives.
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Can only be practiced in
the state that the therapist and client reside.
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It holds no geographic boundaries.
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