Have you ever wondered what a life coach does exactly? There are so many terms that describe ways to address your mental health: Mental health coaching, counseling, therapy, and life coaching are just a few. How do you know what to choose or what will best meet your needs? Let’s explore just what emotional health life coaching is really all about, as well as what it is not.
What an Emotional Health life Coach Is
Mental and emotional health coaches are specifically trained to help clients develop the skill set to manage their emotions and belief systems. They are trained in modalities that help clients change the way they think, feel and behave.
Many people seek the services of both therapists and emotional health coaches. There are places where they overlap and many clients find that they benefit greatly from different aspects of both approaches used in conjunction with each other.
The following are specific ways coaches help client develop skills set for moving forward:
- Identify past belief systems that are keep clients stuck. See our posts on Mindset.
- Help clients to let go of limiting beliefs
- Reduce negative behavior patterns
- Challenge negative thinking
- Help clients to identify new belief systems and patterns to improve daily life
- Build confidence
- Set goals
- Let go of generational patterns and belief systems
- Facilitate inner child work
- Bring individuals into balance through chakra work, NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and Integrative Processing Technique modalities
- Improve their emotional well being by increasing Emotional Intelligence
What an Emotional Health Coach Is Not
A mental and emotional health coach is not traditional therapy. Both a therapist and a coach work to enable clients to make positive changes in their lives and to become more productive. Therapists do some specific things however, that coaches do not.
- Therapists diagnose and treat from a healthcare perspective. They will give a client a specific diagnosis and work on common problems that particular diagnosis has.
- They will suggest or prescribe medication, depending on their qualifications
- They use modalities such as CBT, EMDR or other psychotherapies.
- They specialize in treating complex clinical problems
When individuals’ belief systems change, their relationship skills improve, they are able to be more successful and come to a place of confidence and emotional well being.
Why Coaching?
This type of coaching is meant to help you create a more rewarding and fulfilling life. It’s primary focus is to help you move into a place of peace, resilience, hope and success in your life. They do that by focusing on what thoughts and beliefs you are holding onto.
Each of our thoughts originates in the brain. We are often unaware of our unconscious mind, but a trained coach can help us tap into those thoughts and belief systems. A coach helps you to get different results. They help you to:
- Unlock thoughts and feelings held in your heart and mind
- Look at areas where you have emotional blocks and resistance
- Help you to be more aware of those thoughts so you can think and act in new ways that bring you closer to what you really want
- Provide support as you step into a new way of thinking
See Transform Your Mindset With a Coach Near You.
The Benefits of Coaching
Coaches help you strengthen your mind, your performance and unlock your greatest potential. There are several important benefits of coaching. Primary benefits of this type of coaching are:
- Stress reduction
- Improved relationships
- Increase self esteem and confidence
- Career success
- Decrease of negative emotions and behaviors
- Generalized state of flow
- Financial success
- Greater degrees of happiness
- Generational healing
- Greater capacity to set and achieve goals
- Explore and understand their subconscious and unconscious mind
- Change behaviors
Conclusion
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look in your own heart.”Carl Yung
Whether you choose to work with a therapist, coach or both, the objective is to free your mind from limiting beliefs, strengthen your ability to achieve the things you want in life and to live a more purpose-driven and satisfying life.
Sources:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/
Tony Robbins – The Official Website of Tony Robbins