Teen Therapy Vs. Coaching

Choosing the right professional for your Teen's need and goal...

Therapist, Counselor, and Coach are terms often used interchangeably, but they represent distinct roles in the realm of mental health and personal development. Each profession has unique approaches, qualifications, and focuses.

Teen therapists are mental health professionals focused on addressing psychological and emotional issues in teenagers through therapeutic interventions.

On the other hand, Teen Life Coaches empower teenagers to set and achieve goals, enhance life skills, and facilitate personal growth.

Each profession brings unique skills and approaches to support teenagers in various aspects of their lives, catering to their diverse needs and aspirations.

Teen Therapy

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Teen Coaching

Mental health professionals, address psychological and emotional issues in teenagers through therapeutic interventions. They are in charge and sets the agenda.

Role/Power

Help teenagers set and achieve personal or academic goals.

The client is in charge. Coach works for the client and client determines the agenda.

Focus is on diagnosing and treating mental illness, to cope with anxiety, depression, trauma, family issues, and other emotional and psychological conditions. Focus on past events to facilitate healing and to fix what is broken.

Focus

Focus on empowering teens with life tools, building life skills, and facilitating personal development and self-improvement by working proactively. Focus on action and Future.

Long term therapy to explore emotions, behavior's, and works for internal resolution of pain and to let go of old patterns.

Methods

Works for external solutions to overcome barriers, learn new skills and implement them.

Explores the root of problems.

Process

Focuses on solving problems.

The client needs healing, and need to fix what is broken.

Assumption

The client is whole.

Therapist deals primarily with answering the questions. "Why do I ...?" Understand their concerns, provide insight, and facilitate their healing and growth.

Questions

Coach ask open ended questions that are empowering, thought-provoking, and geared towards helping teenagers find their own solution, discover their potential, set meaningful goals, build their confidence and motivation along the way.