Coaching Techniques for Your Therapy Sessions
I offer psychotherapy with a coaching style. I wrote an entire book about it titled, “Therapy with a Coaching Edge”. To find out if this approach is right for you, please refer to the questions below:
- Are you looking for shorter-term therapy?
- Would you prefer a fast-paced therapy that results in taking action and making decisions?
- Do you want therapy sessions that focus on the present and future, more than on the past?
- Are you interested in using therapy to set and achieve goals in order to make concrete change in your life?
- Do you want a therapist who listens and lets you talk, but also voices thoughts and opinions?
- Do you like to have homework, reading, or action steps to take between sessions?
If you answered yes to these questions, the style of therapy that I offer, Therapy with a Coaching Edge, may be right for you. Click here for more information about my book.
About “Therapy with a Coaching Edge”
I have presented a set of powerful coaching strategies that I learned from many coaching experiences. I adapted and designed these techniques specifically for therapy.
Using this model, therapists can promote behavioral change without insisting on homework or rigid protocols. Clients can spot results in each session. The book gives new and experienced clinicians the skills to:
- Improve client outcomes
- Call a client into action
- Learn to ask compelling questions that generate “ah-ha” moments
- Help clients go beyond a discussion of symptoms to explore topics of core values
- Show clients how to make decisions based on both necessity and a vision of a better future
The model helps identify a skill when it is needed and then immediately apply the steps in a session. It helps therapists energize themselves as practitioners and make therapy faster, easier, and often more successful.