A short spoken excerpt (likely from a video) emphasizing that coaching and therapy are not interchangeable and should not be presented as substitutes. The speaker stresses protecting the therapist–client relationship, ensuring clients needing therapeutic services are not diverted to coaching products or online courses, and advocating for clear, intentional public presentation by therapists.
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We don't want people to think that coaching and therapy are interchangeable. We don't want them to think that coaching is a substitute for therapy. That someone could come, you know to the private practice website in need of treatment, right? In need of therapeutic services and think that coaching is oh I'll just do this instead, right? Or oh she has an online course, I'm going to do that instead. Now there may be an opportunity where that does make sense but by and large we want to protect that therapist client relationship, right? If someone is coming to you in need of therapy we want to protect that. We don't want someone to end up in your online course. We don't want someone to not get the help they need from you the therapist because they're, they're confused about seeing all this coaching stuff, right? So we want to present ourselves to the, to the space, to the world very clearly and very intentionally, right?