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Personal Growth & Prosperity Coaching /
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PERSONAL GROWTH and
PROSPERITY COACHING/
HOLISTIC COUNSELING
(as offered by Dianne Ruth, PhD) vs PSYCHOTHERAPY
By Dianne Ruth, PhD
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CREATING A FABULOUS PRESENT AND AN AMAZING FUTURE
The
focus of my personal growth and prosperity coaching/holistic counseling business is to coach and
holistically counsel the client on how to
create a fabulous and satisfying present and an amazing future with
everything the client wants in it. Coaching and holistic counseling are dynamic movements to
the next level of personal excellence.
In addition, I offer simple and
easy to learn self-use techniques and mini-exercises for releasing blocks, self-improvement
and personal growth. (See
my Personal Growth and Prosperity
Coaching/Holistic Counseling Toolbox.) Time management work sheets and other
self-discovery forms are also available for homework
fun.
PSYCHOTHERAPY DEALS WITH THE PAST
PSYCHOTHERAPY, on the other hand, spends more
time talking about the past. It can involve doing remedial work, and
correcting past problematic behavior through helping the client
process their emotions through a variety of traditional psychotherapeutic
methods.
PERSONAL GROWTH and PROSPERITY
COACHING IS FUTURE ORIENTED
PERSONAL GROWTH and PROSPERITY COACHING is
positive and motivational. It is largely present and future
goal oriented. It helps the client to maximize and get the most quality out of living
their life with fun, satisfaction, and fulfillment.
HOLISTIC COUNSELING
HOLISTIC COUNSELING teaches self-use techniques for identifying
and releasing old emotional blocks and limiting beliefs/decisions. The
life coaching process then becomes more powerful, successful, and effective.
OLD ISSUES
Sometimes a client has
non-clinical "unfinished" business with the past. Some
examples might be some old and inappropriate limiting beliefs about their
abilities for success. There may be one or more emotionally charged negative experiences that
are keeping them stuck in some area of their life.
For example, experiencing
a debilitating fear of
public speaking can play havoc with one's career. I once had a client by
the name of Barbara who had been promoted to a position in her company that
required her to make presentations to various business groups. She was
terrified!
As a child, Barbara froze up in front of the classroom
while trying to give a book report. She was subsequently laughed at,
criticized and ridiculed. This created an emotionally limiting decision
about never wanting to get up in front of an audience ever again.
This event had even been "lost" to conscious memory. I
simply coached Barbara through a simple timeline process which helped her
identify the memory.
Through the timeline process, she was then able to
quickly and easily release the
block permanently. (See
my Personal Growth and Prosperity
Coaching/Holistic Counseling Toolbox
as there are several other methods for accomplishing the
same outcome.)
Within just a few sessions, she was the "darling" of the Toastmaster's
Club.
PERSONAL GROWTH and
PROSPERITY COACHING/HOLISTIC COUNSELING CREATE BALANCE
One difference between
psychotherapy and personal growth and prosperity coaching/holistic counseling is that there is none of the imbalance in the
coaching/holistic counseling relationship as usually found in psychotherapy, e.g.,
"doctor-patient" or "expert-client."
In personal growth and prosperity coaching/holistic counseling, it
is a co-partnership dedicated to the client's performance of
excellence and rediscovery of their values, inclinations and
desires.
In a personal growth and
prosperity coaching/holistic counseling relationship, a
life coach/holistic counselor does not present
himself or herself to the client as an authority, expert, or psychological healer;
the client is the expert
and the life coach/holistic counselor is their supporter and guide, keeping him or her focused and
on-track.
PSYCHOTHERAPY PROVIDES
RELIEF
Another difference
between psychotherapy and personal growth and prosperity coaching/holistic counseling is
that in psychotherapy, the client is generally going through severe pain
and suffering. They are seeking relief; they are looking to the
therapist to fix them or help them eliminate their problem.
The client will seek therapy to deal with their acute distress so they can
then leave, terminate the relationship, and resume their previous
emotional, semi-functional status. They usually never quite achieve their potential
for amazing accomplishment and euphoric inner peace, however.
PERSONAL GROWTH and
PROSPERITY COACHING/HOLISTIC COUNSELING AS AN ELECTIVE
In
personal growth and prosperity coaching/holistic counseling, the
relationship may typically be long-term. It could last months and
years.
Sometimes there are
situations where a client wishes time-limited life coaching/holistic counseling such as being
life coached/holistic counseled through a special project or personal transition. An
example might be resolving a romantic conflict or quickly learning
highly effective rapport skills for a job promotion. That can
also be an option.
This is different from psychotherapy that could be a brief encounter with a therapist for a specific issue or concern
such as overwhelming grief over the loss of a loved one.
Sometimes the client may be severely emotionally
damaged and need to stay in psychotherapy for many years simply to
maintain an emotional holding pattern. This could serve to help the client
avoid potential institutionalization.
Personal growth and prosperity coaching/holistic counseling clients
often stay for the duration because they want to, not
because they need to.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, the
average length of time a client is in psychotherapy is two to seven years of
weekly treatments.
Because of the
powerful methods I use to teach the client successful self-use techniques
for taking control of his or her own life (for life), the average length of
time a client works with me is between 9 and 19 sessions.
Of course, no one is able to accurately predict the exact
length of time a person may require help through the personal growth and
prosperity coaching/holistic counseling
process. Goals, of course, may be set.
Sometimes all a person really needs are as few as a
couple of sessions to take care of their immediate concern. For example,
perhaps the individual has a paralyzing fear of flying, and an urgent
situation suddenly and unexpectedly arises which requires them to travel by
plane.
A young woman once came to me because of claustrophobia
(a fear of enclosed places); in her case the fear was especially
overwhelming in elevators. Several years earlier, she had been trapped all
alone in an old elevator for several hours while traveling in Europe.
Up until recently, she had been working for a company
located on the first floor of a building. The company decided to relocate to
the 14th floor.
Because she loved her job and did not want to leave, she
was attempting to hike up and down the 14 floors daily in order to avoid
taking the elevator. Unfortunately, this activity was just too strenuous for
her to continue indefinitely.
In just a few life coaching/holistic counseling sessions which involved
releasing that old associated trauma, she was able to transform her fear of
getting into an elevator into "riding the elevator of success" to new
dazzling career heights.
Sometimes, a person may elect to stay in the relationship
much longer in order to accomplish ongoing personal growth and development.
Alternately, their issues may be complex, complicated and many, calling for
more emotional tools and extended processing.
Personal growth
and prosperity coaching/holistic counseling and
psychotherapy
can be mutually supportive. Some people work with a life coach/holistic counselor and a
therapist at the same time.
DIFFERENCES IN
BOUNDARIES BETWEEN PERSONAL GROWTH and PROSPERITY COACHING/HOLISTIC COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
The
boundaries that exist in the psychotherapy relationship are quite rigid. This is mostly because the patient/client is
usually suffering a clinically
diagnosable condition, and sometimes they can be very fragile emotionally. Breeching these boundaries can often be devastating for the
patient/client.
Some boundaries can include no contact outside of the therapeutic setting,
e.g., office, clinic, hospital, etc. except in very rare and extenuating
circumstances. Self-disclosure on the part of the psychotherapist is
generally minimal. Also, allowing a genuine two-way friendship to evolve is not
supported.
Personal growth and prosperity coaching/holistic counseling have much more flexible boundaries. The assumption is
that the life coach/holistic counselor is dealing with an emotionally healthy, relatively
well-adjusted and effectively functioning individual. Therefore,
appropriate self-disclosure by the coach, more authenticity, lightness,
fun and friendliness in the relationship is often the rule.
In the
personal growth and prosperity coaching/holistic counseling relationship, transference and counter-transference is not a
concern as it is in psychotherapy.
Friendships often blossom, and certainly, the
potential for deeply felt affection exists. The
"love" I often refer to for my clients is defined in the
dictionary as: deeply held affection, respect, and regard.
