What Is A Life Coach?

The question what is a life coach is often asked and confused with counselling or therapy. This is because people have different interpretations of what they believe a life coach is and what they do.

Essentially, a life coach is professional who works with people to improve various aspects of their lives and to help them achieve their desired goals or outcomes.

This could include finding a healthy and loving relationship, changing careers, improving aspects of your health and fitness or to deepen your self understanding.

Equally, they help you overcome your fears, increase your self-confidence and raise self esteem.

Feeling unorganised? A life coach can also help you manage your time more effectively, set effective goals and help you lead a more balanced and productive lifestyle that meet your personal values and needs.

It differs from its older cousins, counselling and therapy. A life coach is focused more on the present and future, whereas counsellors and therapists focus more on the past.

They are more goal orientated and work on behaviour patterns oppose to emotions and emotional patterns. That's not to say they don't consider them.

Lastly, the balance of relationship between the coach and client is more equal than it would be between the typical therapist and client.

Other Types of Coaches.

Life coaches (aka personal coaches) work on various personal aspects of your life as mentioned above and are considered to be more generalised than specialised.

Here are a list of the different types of coaches:

• Career Coach.
• Fitness Coach
• Relationship/Dating Coach
• Spiritual Coach
• Work/Life Balance Coach

There are others however these would be the more common ones. However, a life coach works on all the areas above.

There are no right or wrong approaches to this. It all depends on your personal preferences. Your best bet would be to contact the coach (most offer a free consultation) and get a personal feel for yourself to see whether or not you could work together.