Frequently Asked Questions
What is coaching?
Coaching is a new approach to personal growth. A coach helps you find the clarity and direction in your life and supports you in a non-judgmental way to take actions needed to reach your desires.
Coaching is unlike counseling or psychotherapy in that your coach assumes that you are a whole, healthy, resourceful individual. A Coach does not analyze you or diagnose you. The focus is the present and future, not the past. At first, your coach may hold you bigger than you may hold yourself, until you are comfortable with the knowledge that all answers are within you.
It is unlike consulting, in that your Coach does not supply you with answers and solutions. Coaches do not give you advice on how to live your life. A Coach believes that the answers lie within you and the coach assists you in discovering what they are.
In a coaching relationship, the Coach is a partner and the entire focus is on you, on your choices, and on finding the joy and passion in your life. The coach helps you remain focused on your individual path. Coaching deals with you as a whole person, with all aspects of your life. Whatever the changes you choose to make, your coach is by your side with support as you create these changes.
There is no other relationship quite like the coach/client relationship.
Who becomes a coaching client?
The short answer is that the choice is limitless. Many successful CEOs and entrepreneurs have coaches. Some people have a short-term specific goal, such as to lose weight, write a business plan, or to start a new business.
I specialize in helping people through difficult transitions. This may be a divorce, a separation, reentering the work force after years of being home with children, entering a new career path, starting a business, the death of a loved one, finding a new partner, or dealing with a second marriage or incorporating a new spouse and parent for your children into your life.
What is the difference between coaching and counseling?
Divorce Coaching is a time specific and goal oriented approach to help clients break down the hurdles that may be in the way of achieving their goals.
Therapy is about exploring the past and more focus on insight oriented work. Therapy is also about diagnosing and treating mental illness.
How Can I Recreate My Life After Divorce?
Divorce Coaching is a powerful partnership which focuses on the client taking action toward the recovery and moving on after a divorce. Divorce Coaches are in demand by anyone who has had a divorce whether they are just thinking about divorce or have been divorced for months, years or decades. Divorced people are using coaches to help them through the mourning and recovery process, to bring out their best, help them create the rest of their lives for themselves and their families.
Coaching is a well structured series of conversations involving a method of inquiring and questioning that assists another person to think more clearly, gain better perspective and focus more effectively on their current situations and the things ahead of them. It is not about dwelling in the past, but moving ahead to the future. It provides the tools to enhance the process of divorce recovery and offers the client a new perspective and accountability for their actions in creating their new lives after divorce.
Coaching happens either with over-the-phone sessions or in person. Professional coaches are trained to listen and observe, to customize their approach to the individual client's needs, and to elicit solutions and strategies from the client. The coach is an experienced guide that has been through the same process in the past. The Divorce Coach provides feedback and an objective perspective while the client is responsible for taking the steps to produce the results he or she wants.
What are the Benefits of Using a Divorce Coach?
- You will better understand the divorce recovery process
- You will have a clear picture of where you are now, where you want to go and why, and what you need to make it happen
- You will develop self-confidence and self-trust
- You will have more control over the speed and direction of your growth
- You will be stronger
- You will become more successful in creating the plan for your life after divorce
What is Divorce Group Coaching?
Divorce Group Coaching consists of four ninety minute group in-person or telephone sessions a month. These groups of four to eight people are men or women who want to rebuild their lives after a divorce or a relationship ends. These groups will allow for group teaching and support, coaching from a coach within that group and a support network of others who are going through some of the same rebuilding processes.