🧠 Therapy vs. Coaching: What’s the Difference?

Therapy versus coaching. Understanding the differences. Therapy is solving a clinical problem and coaching is solving a non clinical problem. That's the easiest definition I can give you. Okay, so let's go over some examples. Somebody has agoraphobia, they can't leave the house. They have severe panic attacks. Therapy, they need to be treated for this medical necessity. They have a clinical problem. I had this before, back in my therapy, private practice. A new mom who was having anxiety going to the grocery store and going to the park. Okay, no anxiety. Prior to that it was the situational, non clinical, less severe problem. So here's an anxiety difference here. Okay? So ask yourself, am I treating medical necessity? Is this textbook DSM or is this a more situational, non clinical, less severe problem? There you have therapy versus coaching. So again, what I just said, like the cbt, dvt, emdr. You can use any of your clinical knowledge, your clinical skills, any certifications that you have in the coaching space as long as you are still working in that non clinical, more situational, less severe problem. Okay?