Maybe you do both, but I would just love to hear what's worked for you. And there's many different kinds of therapy. There's art therapy, there's analysis and coaching, the same thing. But I would just love to understand from your experience or someone you love experience what you think about. Thanks
So we study their cases, what happens, what has happened in their childhood growing up, and what they have done based on those traumatic events. And by that we have a way that we're supposed to deal with our clients as such as far as life coaching, life coach basically just lead and guide a person of what type of choices they should make when it comes to doing things
Jack .
@zejacques · 2:07
So it definitely helped me to talk on a deeper level around my feelings and emotions. I'm an open book, but like I said, Where's that trauma coming from, those stuck behavior patterns. So really enjoyed therapy and want more of that and then the coaching. I always respond really well to. I've been told I'm a very coachable person. However, I know how to coach myself now
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 4:59
So I think I can contribute here because I have a therapist and I've worked with a lot of coaches as part of my ghost writing career. So what I do is I write other people's books for them. And a lot of coaches have approached me over the years with what I could politely call affirmations because they have no clue what they want in the book
Finau Tutone
@Nau15 · 2:54
But I think with a skilled practitioner, whether it's a therapist or coach, if they're able to combine the two, then it's a really needed skill set in people. But yeah, that's my two cent on the matter
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:38
There's such a disparity between those people that have the luxury of time and money versus people who don't. And that's something I'm really thinking about as I'm listening to this conversation. Thanks, all of you, for participating. I look forward to it expanding. And I also think there's such a meta thing here because we are looking always to find language for feelings like this. And even though this is not intuitive for each of us, we're not in any kind of session
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:33
And I think there's something really important about that one on one relationship that happens in therapy that can be really helpful in healing those past traumas that have already been mentioned. As far as coaching, I find it a really helpful addition or supplement to therapeutic work because one, it's a lot more accessible and sometimes more affordable depending on what you do
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 4:47
And a lot of it was about planning for the future and a lot of writing and journaling. And then what was unique about this experience is that we share back in the group, and then you get to relate to other people's stories and learn more about yourself through that as well. So I'm really big on group therapy and group coaching, but then on top of that, I also do talk therapy one on one with a therapist
Kyle Crossman
@kylecrossman · 1:08
I think it's interesting that a life coach, as some other people have said, is more of like an authoritative figure in that sense, where they're guiding you and really sort of giving you a lot of direction. But therapy, I feel like it's more like who you're working with. It side by side right next to you, and they're sort of trying to go through it together with you
Ophelia Johnson
@LadyO · 4:51
Like I had one client say to me once, I feel invisible, what does that mean to you? Like, what does invisible mean? I know what the word means, but when you say that, what does it mean? And so it helps to bring that person into their own awareness about whatever is happening for them. Now there are some things that are so deeply rooted, whether it's childhood traumas, whether it's adulthood traumas, whether it's the emotional baggage that we carry with us
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:14
But I think we're so lucky that we have people in the world that have the skill to guide others with openness and generosity and a sense, of course, capacity to know when they are not supposed to be doing what they're doing and calling others in. I think that's really important for both therapists and for coaches. Thank you
I was looking for a real support, mental health support, some hand holding and someone tell me to even just breathe or someone to actually give me some real help. With respect to leading a daily lifestyle, coaching is something that is not unnecessary, but it's something that you can afford to do when you need guidance with respect to your work and major life decisions where you have options to choose from. It is not a do or die situation
I think, to sum it up, to keep it really simple for people, the way I explain it is, coaching is for pretty high functioning people. They're doing the daily getting up, they're going to work, they're attending to their families. They're doing stuff that's pretty functional. And then people like that need help with next step, how to get unstuck with the situation. Nothing that really that's deep, deep
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:06
I know people have a lot of attention, attachment to their time and their money, and when they make a choice, they're hopeful that there's a lot of depth behind the choices that their coach or therapist makes. And I think that's really what goes on for a lot of people is like, how did I make the right choice here? And is this person making the right choices for me and calling upon their own experience and expertise to bring me my solutions with expediency and with care?
Esha Prakash
@Paradox_Knight · 2:37
Hey Deborah, I just came across this post of yours and I know I'm quite late, but as a psychologist I couldn't stop myself from responding to this wonderful swell because it really made me think. So like I mentioned, I am a psychologist and because of that reason, I'm biased towards therapy. I agree because it doesn't just push you to achieve things in life feel, it helps you address all the things that may be stopping you from truly living it
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:37
If you're a coach and you realize the person needs a therapist, if you're a therapist and think it's better for the person to have a coach as well, these are all the flows that we only hope happen when people are sitting across from each other and trying to chart a course. So thank you so much for helping us understand this even more. I really appreciate it
And I think people need to be careful. And as I would tell anybody, investigate the practitioners that you would like to help you, because otherwise there's a tremendous ability for people to do harm if they don't have adequate training, whether that's life coaching or whether that's therapy. But, yeah, I think this is a phenomenal question and grateful for you bringing it up
Alejandra Holguin
@Motoquera · 3:23
I think this is a very interesting conversation and I have done a little bit of both as well. Right now, I am doing a therapy, like with a psychologist. And I think that maybe the psychologist or at least the therapy that I'm doing right now doesn't give me the responsibility of things that I do or the things that I go through. But with the coaching it does, like in the coaching, you are responsible for everything that happens to you