I have had several people ask what the difference in coaching and counseling is…
Let me try to break it down a little.
Most seek a life coach when you:
•Feel stuck in life and/or business
•Need tools, guidance, and direction
•Have low self-esteem
•Lack confidence
•Need motivation
•Need tools to be a better version of yourself
•Need that push to take that next step
•Need Accountability
•Are unhappy and unsatisfied in your life/career
•Are seeking to find your true purpose
•Are feeling low self worth
•Have relationship issues
•Want a better work-life balance
•Want to improve your health
•Need help planning and organizing your life
•Want to strengthen your Faith
•Are ready to take action
•Want to Move Forward
Coaches focus on introspection and are action-oriented when it comes to resolving the issue.
They believe in giving you problem-solving skills rather than specific solutions to a problem.
We give you the tools and strategies to handle and successfully adapt to challenges you may face in the future.
We work with you to identify the problem, set goals to resolve the problem, and create a path to achieve your goals.
We focus more on the future, rather than staying in the past, though many times we do uncover past issues that have kept you from moving forward and help you to break those chains 
so you are ABLE to move forward.
We offer one-on-one, as well as, group coaching options for those going through similar situations and struggles, and to make it more affordable.
Counselors are more for when there are things like addiction issues: smoking, alcohol, substance abuse; eating disorders; physical or verbal abusive behavior; phobias, like fear of water or crowded places; anger issues; suffering from a traumatic experience; etc.
Counselors encourage their clients to talk about their problems and help them cope with the problems that they are facing by helping find solutions to those problems.
They take you into your past, delve in the emotional turmoil, looking for links and solutions to your issues.
They also work with other coping mechanisms like communication skills, group support, and therapy.
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While there is a place for both, for sure….
I’d like to share a testimonial from an actual coaching client with you 
“Coaching changed my life.
I had a counselor—and she was great. I loved meeting with her.
It was relieving to process pain. And she felt safe.
But I felt like I was just coping. Not healing.
That’s when I decided that I knew I needed more.
With counseling, there was no end goal…and I was hungry for healing and freedom.
In the past, I never would have considered coaching. I thought it was strive-y and annoying.
But I had come to realize that it didn’t have to be that way if I found the right coach.
Honestly, looking back, had I not hired a coach—I would NOT be where I am now.
I would most likely still be in shame, pain, striving and performance…I doubt I’d be healed from GAD and maybe even postpartum anxiety.
But because I took the risk, I am now healed of:
shame, fear, unresolved pain, performance
I’m no longer a victim to pain or disappointment. I know how to walk through it.
I’m no longer a victim to wondering if God wants to heal me.
I’m a powerful person who loves Jesus and is intimately connected to Him. I show up powerfully and healthily for my family.
I am emotionally and relationally healthy.
I have given myself permission to feel and as a result been able to forgive and experience closure to unresolved pain.
I am confident in God’s work in me and take ownership for my failures without spiraling into guilt and shame. And love myself despite my failures.
I am an entrepreneur and business owner who loves what I do. I dream bigger than I ever have.
Let’s book a Free Discovery Call to look at your options!!
Lori Jorgensen is a Certified Kingdom Mindset Transformational Lifestyle Coach, Certified Radiant Leader, VIP Ambassador for Girl Power Alliance, Podcast Host, and Entrepreneur.
She is on a mission to empower women with the Biblical TRUTH and Kingdom principles, laid out for us in the Living Word of God.
To show them who they are in God’s eyes and stop believing the lies the enemy has tried to convince them of, that has held them in bondage for so long….
She gives them tools and strategies to help them heal trauma and implement forgiveness, not only for their past wounds, but for themselves.
In turn, finding their purpose and how to step BOLDLY and COURAGEOUSLY into it, by using their story, and their unique gifts and talents…
To take action!!
It’s time to reclaim the life the enemy has stolen from you!!!
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