Ep #339: Therapy and Coaching
The Life Coach School Podcast
Brooke Castillo
4.8 • 9.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In today’s show, five life coaches/therapists share how these two disciplines overlap and the ways in which they never should. They are each talking about their experiences working with clients who were better suited to therapy and how they prioritize their clients’ safety. If you’re a coach unsure of your niche or a listener unsure of what kind of support you need, this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Kistio episode number 339. |
| 0:07.9 | Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, |
| 0:14.8 | and real coaching. And now your host, Master Coach Instructor Brook Kistio. |
| 0:22.6 | Well, hello my friends. Welcome to the episode today. Today is going to be very exciting. |
| 0:28.8 | We have a panel of therapists who are also coaches. They are both. And I wanted to have them on |
| 0:36.6 | today so we could talk about the differences between the two. We get lots of questions about the |
| 0:41.5 | difference between therapy and coaching. And we're going to cover how to know when to hire a |
| 0:46.7 | coach and how to know when to hire a therapist, what when you look at yourself and what you're going |
| 0:51.6 | through, what might be the most appropriate choice for you. And also we're going to talk to you |
| 0:56.7 | coaches out there. And we're going to let you know when is the time to recommend therapy. |
| 1:03.3 | When you may have a client that isn't suitable for coaching and when to recommend that they go to |
| 1:07.7 | therapy and some of your options around how to handle that. So this is completely unscripted. I'm |
| 1:15.0 | putting them on the spot for all of these questions. But first I'm going to let them introduce |
| 1:19.9 | themselves and tell you a little bit about how they got into therapy and how they got into coaching. |
| 1:25.2 | So let's start with you, Veroneak. Well, I was the teenager who was always addicted to the |
| 1:31.2 | self-help aisle at the bookstore. Yes. So back after I graduated college, then I went and got a |
| 1:37.7 | master's degree in social work and started out doing counseling. This is back in 1995, 1996. |
| 1:43.6 | I started on I was five years old just so you know, no, I'm kidding. I'm like, what, what did you |
| 1:48.3 | read when you were five? How did I miss that? And I love being a therapist and I loved helping people, |
| 1:54.4 | but I always wanted to improve the tools in my toolkit. And so then in 2012, I went and got |
| 2:00.0 | certified with Martha Beck. And then a few years later, met you through master weight loss course |
| 2:07.2 | before scholars started. And after that, I was like, I need to go back. I want to go back and |
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