Lindsay Wittenberg

Coaching, counselling or therapy? Supervision can yield new and valuable learning about where the coaching contract goes next

From time to time I find myself working near the boundary between coaching and counselling or therapy. The reasons are various: sometimes the client brings patterns, attitudes, beliefs or history, which mean that something is in the way of the coaching succeeding, sometimes they just don’t seem to be emotionally or psychologically fit enough for coaching and sometimes the story they have created is a kind of drama that might look like extreme...