Coaching: From Counseling to Coaching: Professional Transitions and Possibilities
You will receive 2 credits (CE) upon completion of this course.
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Course Description
Upon completion of this course, the participant will:
Have an understanding of the unique skills that therapists bring to coaching;
Be able to compare and contrast coaching, consulting, and therapy;
Be aware of why coaching has emerged as a new paradigm for personal and professional growth; and
Be familiar with Life Coaching as a viable professional alternative or addition to the participant''s current practice.
This is an exploratory course about life coaching. For those considering a transition into the new and dynamic field of life coaching, this program offers an opportunity to examine some of the differences and similarities between therapy and coaching and explore issues unique to coaching.
Course topics include Why People Need Coaches; Unique Skills That Therapists Bring to Coaching; Characteristics of Successful Coaches; Distinctions and Similarities between Therapy and Coaching. This course is designed to help you find out if you should expand your practice to include coaching!
Course Outline
Desire for a New Paradigm
What Is Life Coaching?
General Definitions
Specific Features
Powerful Human Relationships
Why Therapists As Life Coaches?
Evolution of Coaching
Societal Changes
Change As the Norm
Why People Need Life Coaches
Living Life "On Purpose"
Coaching Specialists
Why Therapists Can Make Great Life Coaches
Unique Skills That Therapists Bring to Coaching Relationships
How Therapists Become Life Coaches
Adding Coaching to Your Practice
Characteristics of Successful Coaches
Twenty Important Characteristics
Paradigm of Possibility vs. Paradigm of Pathology
Therapy and Coaching: Distinctions
Change As A Prerequisite
Distinctions between Therapy and Coaching
Past vs. Future: Perspectives on the Process
Fix vs. Create: Why Clients Come to See You
Professional vs. Collegial: Characteristics of the Helper-Client Relation
Limited vs. Open: How You Generate New Clients
Therapy and Coaching: Similarities
Transferable Skills
Shared Characteristics of Therapy and Coaching
Examining Assumptions You Hold about Clients
How to Make the Distinctions Work
Focusing on the Life Coaching Model vs. the Therapeutic Model
Summary
Therapy vs. Coaching
CE Post Test
Course Evaluation
More Information
| Language | English |
| Course Length | 2.00 hours |
| Duration of Access | 12 months |
| Continuing Education Credits | 2 |
| Instructor | Self Study. Course author is Patrick Williams, EdD, MCC |
| Vendor | AtHealth (Read more about AtHealth accreditation.) |
| Course Certification | CE certificate/letter of completion |
| Prerequisites/Audience | Psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, CEAPs, alcohol and drug abuse counselors, pastoral counselors |
| Requirements/Materials Included | None |