Frequently Asked Questions



What is the difference between psychotherapy and life coaching?

Psychotherapy is a process that works by helping clients overcome problems that impede their ability to function in their lives. Psychotherapy helps people gain self-understanding and emotional healing by exploring the root of problems with a focus on feelings and past events. Clients are then able to let go of internal pain and change self defeating patterns. Psychotherapy can heal issues of depression, anxiety, childhood traumas, abuse issues, and eating disorders.

Coaching assumes the client is whole and works with the client to move toward higher levels of functioning and satisfaction in life. Coaching is action oriented and focuses on setting goals, problem solving and moving towards the future. Coaching works well with job and career change, divorce recovery an developing a healthy lifestyle such as stress reduction and weight loss support.
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What are your specialty areas?

My coaching specialties are:
  • Job and career change
  • Divorce recovery
  • Stress reduction and wellness
  • Weight loss support
  • Weight loss surgery support.

My psychotherapy specialties are:
  • Relationship and couple issues
  • Depression and Anxiety
  • Codependency and adult children of alcoholics issues
  • Women's issues
  • Childhood trauma and abuse issues
  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
What is EMDR?

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing or EMDR is a physiologically based therapy that helps people see disturbing material in a new and less distressing way. It is used for reduce the impact and pain of traumas and childhood and sexual abuse issues.

Are there other web sites to get more information?

Here are some web sites here you can get more information:
Information on EMDR - www.emdria.org
Information on Social Work - www.clinicalsw.com or www.socialworkers.org
Information on Coaching: www.coachfederation.org
Information on Weight Loss: Obesityhelp.com




 

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