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Life Coaching Courses?

  • 18-04-2013 3:10pm
    #1
    Freiheit
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    Hi I'm just wondering whether this is a discipline with a future? and if so if anyone can recommend good courses?. Can a life coach give advice on topics such as depression or anxiety as well? Is there much of an overlap with Counselling?. Thanks

    Just a thought

    K


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  • #2
    Odysseus
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    Well it is a personal opinion but I don't see a life coach as a clinician and therefore believe they lack the clinical skills to be working with such conditions.

    AFAIK their is no clinical training in an such courses, how can you deal with such conditions if you have not got the training to address them?


  • #3
    dar100
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    Freiheit wrote: »
    Hi I'm just wondering whether this is a discipline with a future? and if so if anyone can recommend good courses?. Can a life coach give advice on topics such as depression or anxiety as well? Is there much of an overlap with Counselling?. Thanks

    Just a thought

    K

    There may be a future in it, but that would depend on how you market yourself. Although you may learn some counselling skills on one of these courses, it is not clinical training and generally only consists of 100 hours or so of academic study. You may be able to assist a client in some aspects of personal development, but again this would be very limited in scope. So to answer your question, no there is not much overlap with counselling, and you certainly would not be dealing with mood disorders. In saying that I have herd that some of these training institutes do teach a introductory to NLP and Reality Therapy. You may find this link useful.

    http://www.ili.ie/course_details.php?id=1&sectionid=1


  • #4
    JuliusCaesar
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    And the evidence base for NLP is poor to none...
    Linky
    Linky 2


  • #5
    dar100
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    JuliusCaesar wrote: »
    And the evidence base for NLP is poor to none...
    Linky
    Linky 2

    Totally agree JC, havn't read your links, but will do. There seems to be a lot of training been offered in this approach lately. I think they are referring to themselves as "Master Practitioners"


  • #6
    Fundrous
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    Hi OP, I am a trained Career and Life Coach. Any professional life coach worth their salt should refer a potential client presenting with depression or anxiety like you mentioned to a counsellor. Coaching is not meant for recovery, healing or dealing with mental health issues, but for devising plans and taking actions for the present and future. We know our place :)


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