Join us today for a very special guest, Aileen Uy, LCSW who is also a certified life coach specializing in women’s coaching and mentorship. She is going to unwrap the stigma around coaching and the common misconceptions with therapy as well as the practice of being a coach.
Aileen gives a lot of insight into the guidelines, frameworks, and their perspective expectations and ethics that coaches are expected to adhere to. Although coaching is very unregulated with no formal process, training, or licensing, there are some accreditations for different kinds of coaching beyond the basics that can be found on the International Coaching Federations website referenced below. Both coaching and therapy promote wellness on a spectrum, but Aileen highlights that therapy and coaching do have some differences.
3 key points to help distinguish coaching from therapy:
There is a lot of coaching that goes on in therapy but no therapy that goes on in coaching.
Coaching often focuses on solutions through encouragement where therapy has a focus on recovery with more severe distress and requires intense healing through treatment.
Clinical psychotherapy can be related to physical therapy where distress and discomfort or limited awareness with a heavy focus on treatment for that disorder. A personal trainer who focuses on physical upkeep, a coach would similarly help with maintaining optimal mental wellness.
Want to learn more about today’s topic? Here are the references from today’s episode:
- https://coachingfederation.org
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