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What's the difference between coaching and counselling?

Coaching                                     Counselling

  • Future-focused

  • Solution-focused 

  • Works towards outcomes 

  • Does not give advice      

  • Asks the question “How can we change?” 

  • The client has the answers – assisted to find their own solutions     

  • ​Backtracking – using client language and tone to recap important words or phrases          

versus

  • Past-focused

  • Problem-focused

  • Works towards emotions

  • Gives advice and recommendations

  • Asks the question “Why should we change?”

  • The counsellor has the answers – gives diagnosis and treatment 

  • Paraphrasing – restatement of a statement or text using other words    

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