Life Coaching and Personal Coaching
Until recently, coaching was
reserved for senior level executives who wanted assistance in developing and
polishing their management and leadership skills. But in recent years, coaching has become
available to help anyone who desires assistance in getting what they want, or
getting to where they want to go.
Life Coaching helps you save
time and energy in reaching your desired destination and in achieving your true
potential. It will help you figure out what is blocking your progress and how to
get over, under, around or through these obstacles and challenges. These obstacles may be external factors such
as lack of funding, training, education, skills, or internal factors such as
hesitation, indecision, guilt, fear, procrastination, lack of confidence, and
ambivalence. Life coaching can help you
successfully overcome these and other obstacles that stop you from obtaining
your most important and cherished goals.
Coaching helps you clarify your
goals and directions, defining what you really want from your life and what you
are willing to do and give in order to get what you want. Coaching can help you create your life, as you
really want it to be.
Life Coaching and Executive Coaching Versus
Psychotherapy
The differences between coaching
and therapy are numerous and significant.
Psychotherapy tends to be based on a medical model, which is recognized
by the insurance industry, and usually focuses on treating diagnosable medical
and/or mental conditions as described in the DSM-IV (the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual, 4th edition, published by the American
Psychiatric Association).
Psychotherapy generally focuses
significant time and attention on one’s past history and emotional injuries,
with the goal being to bring the patient to a better and hopefully a normal,
level of functioning. Therefore,
counseling and psychotherapy focus on medical, emotional and behavioral
problems, such as anxiety, depression, phobias, trauma, addictions, etc. If you are using your insurance benefits to
receive psychotherapy, your therapist is reporting health care information to
them that might be dangerous to your current and future welfare, since the long
term security and confidentiality of this information cannot be absolutely
guaranteed. To learn more about the
potential dangers of using your insurance and managed care reimbursement for
mental health services click here.
On the other hand, coaching is
based on a model of adult growth, development and success. It is focused on helping already successful
and healthy individuals become even more productive, healthy, successful and
fulfilled. It is about helping you
reach your full potential, by achieving your dreams, goals, and desires.
Coaching can help you leverage
your strengths, skills, interests and innate potential to achieve the results
you desire in your professional and personal life. Coaching is about achieving the success,
excellence and prosperity you desire in any or every area of your life!
For information on
Executive Coaching, click here.
How Does Life Coaching Work?
It works by providing the
following features:
- It provides a skilled, caring and experienced coach who seeks to align with you in defining, pursuing and achieving your goals.We first
listen carefully to obtain a preliminary understanding of your desired
results and then establish a developmental partnership toward these
important outcomes.
- We then use
appropriate assessment instruments and questionnaires to clarify and more accurately define where you are and
where you might want to be. This helps
describe your strengths and weaknesses, so that we can appropriately leverage
your internal and external assets and work on necessary improvements.
- This leads to the
development of an effective action plan for targeted areas of progress and
success with specific and measurable benchmarks
- This results in winning
teamwork as you and your coach, Dr. Lee Stoltzfus, align and work together, far surpassing what
you might achieve on your own.
- We help you choose
others who might be valuable allies in achieving your dreams and goals,
such as selected friends, family members, co-workers, mentors, etc.
- Ultimately, you
achieve your most important personal goals through action and structure:
which includes support, challenge, accountability, and coaching, measuring
progress at frequent intervals along the way.
Life
Coaching Will Make A Difference!
Click here for
information on Executive Coaching.
L.I.F.E. MANAGEMENT COACHING
3429 Ocean View Blvd, Suite K Glendale, California 91208
(818) 240-8295 phone (818) 249-0775 fax
