What is Life Coaching
Life Coaching is a practice to support our clients in envisioning, articulating and creating their lives as they want or wish them to be.
Clients often come to us to resolve an issue or grow in a particular area of their lives. Our life coaches help our clients to distinguish what they want to accomplish or create in any area of their life and to support them to create a plan and take the actions to make their vision become reality. Along the way, we work through obstacles that come up including self-doubt and negative self-talk to enable our clients to be in action in a powerful way.
Each client experience is unique and each life coaching journey is custom to that particular client.
Areas of Impact for Life Coaching
- Career
- Income
- Romantic relationship, love
- Confidence/ self-trust/ keeping promises to yourself
- Time Management/ organization
- Boundaries/ being fully expressed and clear
- Fitness/health
- Home/ physical environment
- How you spend your time
- Creativity
- Risk-taking/ adventure
- Knowing, experiencing and communicating your feelings with grace
- Spirituality
- Service/ making a difference in a way that is meaningful to you
- Sex
- Family of origin (your parents and siblings)
- Learning new things (spanish, guitar, philosophy, whatever interests you)
- Community involvement
- Friendships/real connectendness
- Parenting
- Bad habits (including anything ‘borederline’)
- Relationship with yourself/ allowing any parts of yourself you currently suppress or ignore
- Further developing your personal values / ethics/ integrity/ personal character
- Financial management
- Business relationships
How is Life Coaching different than Therapy?
We say that Life Coaching is all about your life and what you are going to do with it. Life Coaching is very future looking; whereas therapy often looks to the past to resolve old hurts. In addition, therapy is usually focused on resolving a problem or diagnosis whereas in Life Coaching, we come from a perspective that you are healthy and well…and that you just want to improve, grow and increase your experience and satisfaction of life.
If you want to discuss the past and heal old hurts or traumas, we recommend therapy. If you want to move forward and create your future largely independent from your past, then Life Coaching is for you.
If you are not sure or just want to learn more about Life Coaching, contact us and we’d love to chat with you to see if it is a good fit for you.
We can be reached through this contact form, or by calling us at 866-599-6535.
Our Life Coaches are often quoted in major press and on TV including Fortune, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Women’s Day, Reuters, NBC, Daily Candy, Glamour, CNBC and many more. Our Life Coaches work with clients in New York, NYC, Los Angeles, and all around the world. What is Life Coaching?, published April 15, 2009, reproduced from article What is Life Coaching written by Meredith Haberfeld.
