MAXIMIZE YOUR POTENTIAL WITH LIFE COACHING at Gateways Couns

Life & Relationship Coaching

Life coaching is a present and future-focused service, designed to help clients identify barriers, develop goals and strategies, use their strengths and take action. Life coaching also encourages clients to explore new ways of thinking, behaving, and relating. Recognizing change as a difficult process, the life coach acts as a partner to challenge clients and hold them accountable to a plan of action, in order to improve functioning and achieve positive outcomes as efficiently and effectively as possible.

Life coaching services can help with a variety of issues including:

Goal setting - define goals, overcome obstacles, and create plans to achieve goals
Life transitions - adapt to major life, career, and relationship changes
Increase confidence - build self-confidence by overcoming negative thoughts and feelings and adopting positive beliefs
Relationships - improve communication, understand different perspectives, and learn effective conflict resolution strategies.
Stress management - learn skills to effectively reduce and cope with stress
Work-life balance - prioritize and manage time effectively between work and personal activities
Emotional or social disorders - learn strategies to overcome emotional or social difficulties that negatively impact day-to-day life
Challenge assumptions - explore new ways of thinking, behaving, and relating
Overcoming fear- overcome fears without pressure
Career goals - identify goals, develop action plans, connect with resources, develop career skills, explore career development opportunities
Financial literacy - learn money management skills and develop wise financial habits

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Counseling vs. Coaching: What's the difference?

While coaching can be therapeutic, it is not therapy. Here are some key differences between counseling and coaching you should know, to determine which service is right for you...

Focus - Coaching focuses on the present and future, while counseling focuses on the past, present, and future.
Goals - Coaching helps people identify goals, use their strengths, and take action. Counseling helps people resolve and heal from past hurts, solve present problems, prevent future problems, and develop themselves.
Approach - Coaching is action-oriented, while counseling is coping-oriented. Coaches challenge clients, while counselors support them with empathy.
Service - Counseling relies on a diagnosis and treatment plan to guide services. Coaching works with the client to identify goals to achieve, then provides accountability and support to overcome challenges in a healthy way and achieve goals efficiently.
Cost - Counseling may be reimbursed by insurance. Coaching is self-pay, though may be paid for by FSA/HSA funds. Payment is due at time of service. Note: Gateways offers a sliding fee scale for coaching services, available based on client income.

Counseling or Coaching??? - If you need to process and resolve past pain and how it affects your life, relationships and mental state, then a counselor is the right option. If you want to work on your goals and focus on improving your future, working with a coach could benefit you best.

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