Coaching and therapy share some common ways of working, including even some specific techniques and methodologies. At Creating Lasting Connections Therapy Center, both therapists and coaches strive to create a client centered, collaborative partnership to help you reach your goals and your fullest potential. Regardless of the services you choose, we ascribe to high ethical and professional standards and strive to practice only within the scope of our training and effectiveness.

While there are many similarities, there are some differences as well. Psychotherapy typically focuses on how past events in a client’s life may have created or impacted their current challenges. Coaching on the other hand, focuses on the present situation, finding solutions and actions the client can use to create powerful and lasting changes. This is done by utilizing each client’s unique strengths and gifts to help them deal effectively with change and to create and attain reachable goals. Coaching focuses on present-day action, and NOT on the individual’s emotional or family history, unresolved issues, on repairing of emotional wounds, or on resolving the past issues. Coaching focuses on the problem solving in the now and on creating the future.