What is the difference between Therapy and Coaching?

Emphasis on present and future.
Solution oriented.
Does not diagnose or treat.
Focuses on setting and achieving personal or professional goals, enhancing performance, and navigating transitions.
Coach and client ask: "What’s next/what now?"
Explore actions and behaviors that manifest high self-esteem.
Treatment planning designed by coach and client together.
Works with clients in establishing goals.
Accountability and "homework" between sessions held as important.

Emphasis on past and present.
Educated and trained to utilize a medical model.
Diagnoses and treats mental health, emotional challenges, and psychological disorders.
Works mainly with internal issues.
Therapist and client ask: "Why and from where?"
Analyze and treat origins and historical roots of negative self-beliefs.
Treatment plan largely designed by therapist.
Focus on healing and understanding.
Uses various therapeutic modalities and interventions.

Where Trauma Recovers, And Transformation Begins