How Does Coaching Work? Coaching is distinctly different than counseling or therapy. Coaching focuses on bringing you from the present (where you are) to the possible future (where you want to be) while counseling or therapy focus on the past and the healing of your hurts.  Consulting centers on offering expert advice and answers to a particular problem, while coaches ask questions that help clients see their problem in a new light and develop their own solutions.  Mentoring and coaching have many similarities: both are one-on-one, growth-oriented relationships that focus on change and forward movement. While there are many definitions floating around, mentoring can be seen as much like coaching but more weighted toward imparting skills, information and perspective to a learner. Coaching has less to do with being an authority in a particular skill, job or ministry area than it does with expertise in basic principles of how people grow and change—principles that can be applied to almost any area of life. The difference between coaching, counseling and consulting.  Coaching  VS  Counseling  Healthy People  Used For  Hurting People  Growth Focuses On  Healing  Future   Looks To The Past    Collaborative  Approach Prescriptive   Fulfillment Works Toward  Functionality  Apprentice's Direction  Directed By Counselor's Diagnosis  What makes coaching easy, convenient and comfortable is the use of technology. Through a weekly phone call, email/fax and 'spot calls' we are able to build a strong coaching relationship that will help you move from where you are now to a more balanced, focused and fulfilled future. The great part is this can be done even if you live in another time zone or outside the U.S.! I am also available to coach in person within Santa Cruz County.  So, if you are more comfortable meeting face to face we can arrange our sessions accordingly.  MORE>>>