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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

230. Therapy v. Coaching - How to Know What Help Works When: A Conversation with Mollie Birney

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Education, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What is the difference between therapy and life coaching? Are the two modalities at odds with each other? When might you want to seek a therapist vs a coach to support you?

In this week’s podcast episode, therapist and life coach Mollie Birney joins me for an exploration of these questions and more. Tune in to learn more about both therapy AND coaching, and how both modalities can support your own mental health journey.

 

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The Future Coach: How to Succeed as a Life Coach Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond is finally here. Every other week, you'll hear practical advice about becoming a coach, improving your coaching skills, and antidotes to the most common concerns, questions, and brain drama that come up with this work, whether you're just starting out or you're years into your career. If you want to find out more, you can find it anywhere you listen to podcasts and hit that follow button.

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0:00.0

Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain

0:16.3

and get what you want in life.

0:18.6

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach,

0:24.7

Kara Loyenthyle.

0:28.1

Hello, my chicken.

0:29.1

So, this is one of the only times I've ever

0:32.2

had to have a second round for a podcast because Molly and I tried to do this podcast originally and we just like had it we had a great conversation but we just very quickly devolved and not devolved, but evolved maybe into us being like,

0:45.7

like everything's made up and nothing is real and like what are thoughts even and what is a brain and I was like,

0:51.0

we gotta call this back. This this is not that helpful for people so we are reconvening today first for our conversation so but we are going to talk about something that I'm so excited to have my on and she's going to tell you a little bit about her background.

1:04.0

She was a therapist and is now a coach and I think that there's so much conversation about

1:08.8

like therapy versus coaching and like we're going to talk about all of that today but we're also going to invite you to like stop thinking about it like it's a dual where they meet in Wehochen at 5 a.m. like in hats like one doesn't have to win, is not adversarial, like the routine coaching are two helpful modalities,

1:27.1

and we're going to talk about when one is more appropriate than the other, but I just want to kind of invite you to like,

1:31.7

if in your mind there's like a little V symbol

1:34.3

in between them and it's like therapy versus coaching,

1:37.5

like it can be banned, it could be an and symbol.

1:40.6

Like it's not, one of them doesn't have to be the answer to everything. So we're going to talk

1:45.2

through all that today. What is coaching versus what is therapy? What's appropriate for what?

1:49.8

Differences, similarities, all that. So with that hilarious introduction,

1:55.1

Molly, tell us about yourself.

1:57.2

Thank you so much.

1:58.2

I appreciate that.

1:59.1

It's quite a rabbit hole of a topic, isn't it?

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