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What is lIFE coaching?
Coaching is a method that has proven useful in enhancing personal insight and in shaping and reinforcing desired behaviour within many different contexts .
In recent years, coaching has received special attention as a method to improve healthy lifestyle behaviors.
Health coaching has been described as “a practice of health education and health promotion within a coaching context, to enhance the well-being of individuals, and to facilitate the achievement of their health-related goals.”
Coaching vs Counseling
COUNSELING
- Counseling is primarily therapeutic.
- Generally long-term in approach.
- Focuses on both past experiences and future goals.
- Diagnostic in nature.
- Requires a state license for practice.
- Bound by state licensing regulations.
- Often explores "Why did I...?"
COACHING
- Solution-oriented approach.
- Emphasizes achievement and goal setting.
- Typically short-term in duration.
- Not diagnostic.
- Primarily focuses on future outcomes.
- Not restricted by state license requirements.
- Often addresses "How can I...?"