COACHING

VS. THERAPY

Therapists have the skills necessary to help the client’s mental health when it is unstable and requires processing, a diagnosis, an assessment, and a treatment plan.

Trauma Recovery Coaching is a client-led modality. Trauma Recovery Coaches make suggestions, education, and offer guidance, but we are never in charge of leading our clients to their healing process. The client is the CEO of their healing and recovery process.

What Trauma Recovery Coaches Do?

  • Coaches guides, teaches, and mentors.
  • Coaches build a healthy relationship with clients so that they can learn how to have a healthy relationship with themselves and others.
  • Coaches set recovery goals with their clients, helping them map out a path that brings them closer to leading the life they want to live.
  • Coaches provide education about trauma and recovery.
  • Coaches provide and share their own narrative to let their clients know that they are not alone in what they are facing. Coaches validate the client’s thoughts and feelings.
  • Coaches help their clients identify the primary lies/core family beliefs that were taught to them by their abuser or enabler. Once identified they help their clients define new and healthy truths.
  • Coaches help their clients celebrate their progress through the healing process.
  • Coaches help their clients build a healthy view of themselves, others, and the world.
  • Help their clients understand fully how their trauma-impacted them biologically, psychologically, emotionally, and rationally.
  • Coaches help clients develop a toolbox full of coping techniques to facilitate healthy personal change and make their recovery.
  • Coaches help their clients maximize their strengths.
  • Coaches help their clients connect with the survivor’s community of peers to assist in their recovery.
  • Coaches help their clients identify any maladaptive coping mechanisms they are employing, and focusing on developing adaptive coping mechanisms,
  • Help our clients to have a full understanding of how intergenerational trauma, family mythology, and family systems and mottos have affected their lives.
  • We advocate for our clients at all times.

What Trauma Recovery Coaches Not Do

  • Coaches do not treat, diagnose, or assess their client’s mental health.
  • Coaches do not prescribe medication or advise about any medication.
  • Coaches focus is upon helping client’s function in their present-day lives.
  • Coaches do not work with clients who are at risk of harming themselves or others.
  • Coaches do not work outside of their scope competence.

I don’t treat a diagnosis! I provide services for survivors of trauma!