Therapy-informed coaching is a mix of both psychotherapy and life coaching.
Most people have experienced working with a therapist or a counsellor, but here in the UK, many haven’t experienced what it’s like to work with a life coach.
Therapy-informed coaching is a blend of both traditional therapy and coaching. Coaching comes from the field of sport, as many athletes have a coach to help them get the best out of themselves.
Many businesses also now work with coaches in order to help them with their performance. But now many individuals are turning to life coaching to help them overcome struggles and utilise the support they can get from a coaching partnership.
Therapy-informed coaching combines the healing powers of therapy, along with the energy of coaching. This often means that you see results in your wellbeing and performance quicker than just therapy or coaching alone.
Therapy-informed coaching helps with your level of functioning or performance, helping you to reach higher levels of action and results that you would without the support from an experienced therapist and coach.
Therapy-informed coaching works on your wellbeing, along with a solution-focused approach to get you out of worry and rumination, and into action. Therapy-informed coaching is great for overthinkers who might benefit from the confidence that comes after taking action towards their chosen goals.
Who is Therapy-informed coaching for?
Therapy-informed coaching can very much help you connect deeply with your authentic self, which in turn helps empower you to find your own intuition and inner knowing to help you make better decisions in life from a place of trust and confidence.
Therapy-informed coaches understand that many of your struggles and difficulties come from past hurts and conditioning. Working with a Therapy-informed coach means that you will understand the root cause of your problems, but without diving into a potential painful past.
Therapy-informed coaching doesn’t bring up traumas like traditional therapy, but does take them into account in a healing way.
Therapy-informed coaching may also incorporate a somatic approach, which means that your coach will help you address and deal with anything going on in your body when dealing with past hurts and traumas.
Therapy-informed coaching is flexible to the needs of each individual, recognising that some coaching can miss the fact that people have trauma and individual difficulties.
Therapy-informed coaching works with all of you, your difficulties, and your goals to bring about deep and lasting psychological growth, and can offer you:
- Personal and professional growth
- Overcoming emotional problems like anxiety
- Getting to the root cause of stressors and triggers
- Spiritual development
- Clarity which feels like having a clean and clear mind
Therapy-informed coaching works to both help you move forwards towards your goals, whilst taking into account your own personal psychology, traumas, emotions, and beliefs.
Some of the keys differences between Therapy-informed coaching and standalone therapy or coaching is that it:
- Works deeper than traditional life coaching to get to the root cause of struggles and challenges
- Takes into account traumas and emotional difficulties being a trauma-informed approach
Do I need therapy or coaching?
If you’re wondering if you need therapy or coaching, Therapy-informed coaching might be for you. With it’s blend of both a compassionate therapeutic style, and power transformative coaching processes, you’ll likely find it fits all of your needs for both emotional support, and personal growth towards your goals.
Therapy-informed coaching can quickly support you to get to the source of your struggles and problems, and overcome them with deep and lasting change.
Therapy-informed coaching is usually delivered via one to one sessions with a Therapy-informed coach who has trained in both psychotherapy, and coaching.
Sessions are confidential, in a safe non-judgemental space, and with a Therapy-informed coach who will see your unique true potential.
Chris Finn is a Therapy-informed coach in Bournemouth, Dorset who blends various modalities together including CBT, mindfulness, and transformative coaching. Chris was a Senior Lecturer in CBT so he draws on the practical approach of addressing your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, whilst combining this with the teachings of mindfulness, with his learnings from being a certified transformative coach.
If you want to find out more about what it’s like to work with a Therapy-informed coaching, you can book a free no obligation discovery call with Chris Finn, Therapy-informed coach in Bournemouth.
