Coaching differs from psychotherapy according to the following criteria.
No diagnosis
While psychotherapy requires a medical diagnosis and an indication (justification for treatment), coaching can simply take place at the client’s request.
Shorter duration
Psychotherapy usually lasts between 12 and 60 sessions. These usually take place once a week. Coaching, on the other hand, is a short-term measure and usually lasts around 6 – 15 sessions, which take place once a week or at longer intervals, depending on the client’s wishes. Double sessions may be useful for both measures.
Depth of conversation
In classic coaching, attention is normally paid to working on the relevant issues without going too deeply into emotional, biographical or intellectual depth. Depending on the method, however, this distinction applies to a greater or lesser extent. The strategic coaching method, for example, works explicitly with emotions and the body (embodiment). This deliberately enables deeper processing and promotes rapid and sustainable change. In any case, you decide together with me which method best suits your needs before the start of a coaching session.
As an externally psychotherapeutically trained coach, I am an expert in psychological contexts and behavior modification. In your own personal professional context, you bring the necessary know-how about your company and your specialist area to the coaching, so that we can use our multi-professional knowledge to work optimally on your personal development.
A holistic view of your personality
In traditional business coaching, it is emphasized that the measure is limited exclusively to your “business identity”, i.e. your role in professional life. With a psychotherapeutically trained coach, you have the opportunity to view your business identity as part of your entire personality and to incorporate your individual biographical and learning history into the coaching process. Why should this be a good thing?
One plausible reason for this holistic approach is the fact that we very often act according to unconscious and automated behavioral patterns in life. This is why it is often so difficult for us to actually behave the way we would actually like to. Because these behavioral patterns are automated, we usually find them not just in one situation, but in several, both professionally and privately. By taking a strategic approach to coaching that takes these automated cognitive-affective patterns into account, you can bring about profound changes in the long term and transfer the successes from coaching more easily to other areas of your life.
State-certified quality
As a licensed psychological psychotherapist, I use special techniques and methods for conducting conversations that I have learned in many years of training and that are state-certified and recognized. However, the profession of coach and the term coaching are not yet legally protected in Germany. This designation alone therefore does not automatically guarantee you tested methods and therefore also not automatically tested and reliable quality. When choosing a coach, you should therefore always pay attention to their training.
In addition to face-to-face coaching appointments in my practice for psychotherapy and coaching in Munich Maxvorstadt, I also offer online coaching. You can find out more here. Interested in coaching?
Appointments at the Psychotherapy practice in Munich Maxvorstadt.
Please note: my offer is only aimed at those insured by private health insurance companies, those receiving assistance and those paying themselves. Billing through statutory health insurance companies is unfortunately not possible.
In addition to face-to-face appointments in my psychotherapy practice in Munich Maxvorstadt, I also offer online appointments (online psychotherapy, online coaching), which you can attend from the comfort of your own home using your smartphone, laptop and tablet. To arrange an initial consultation, please contact me via email and I will get back to you directly.
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Please note : My practice works on an appointment basis. Therefore, if you cancel later than 72 hours or do not show up, you will be charged part of the service. The cancellation fee is generally not covered by health insurance companies.