Coaching
Sometimes you don’t need therapy. You need clarity, direction, and a plan.
You may know what you want to change but feel unsure about how to get there. Maybe you’re navigating a transition, trying to make an important decision, working toward a personal or professional goal, or noticing that you keep getting in your own way.
Coaching provides a collaborative, forward-focused space to get clear about what you want, identify what’s standing between you and that goal, and turn insight into action.
At New Range Counseling, coaching is practical, curious, and individualized. We’ll look at where you are now, where you’d like to go, and what needs to happen in between.
What can we work on?
Coaching may be a good fit if you’re looking for support with life transitions, relationships and communication, boundaries, confidence, personal growth, career decisions, goal setting, accountability, changing habits, work-life balance, or figuring out what you want next.
Our work may include identifying goals, examining obstacles, developing strategies, practicing difficult conversations, creating accountability, or challenging assumptions that are keeping you from moving forward.
You don't need to have a perfectly defined goal before you begin. Sometimes figuring out what you actually want is the first goal.
Coaching vs. Therapy
They may look similar, but they serve different purposes.
Both therapy and coaching can involve meaningful conversations, goal setting, self-reflection, and making changes in your life. The important difference is what we're working on and the role I'm serving in while we do it.
Therapy is mental health care. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I can assess and treat mental health concerns, work with symptoms of psychological distress, address trauma and difficult past experiences, and provide psychotherapy within the states where I am legally authorized to practice.
Coaching is a non-clinical service focused on growth, goals, decisions, accountability, and forward movement. When I work with you as a coach, I am not acting as your psychotherapist, even though my professional background as a therapist may inform the questions I ask and the way I understand relationships and behavior.
What coaching does not include
Coaching has important limitations. It is not psychotherapy and is not a substitute for mental health treatment. Coaching does not include diagnosing or treating mental health disorders, providing trauma treatment such as EMDR, assessing or treating significant psychological symptoms, providing crisis intervention, or managing psychiatric or medical conditions.
Coaching is also not the appropriate service when someone's primary need involves significant depression or anxiety, PTSD or unresolved trauma requiring clinical treatment, suicidal thoughts or other safety concerns, severe emotional distress, substance-use concerns requiring treatment, eating disorders, or another condition that would be more appropriately addressed through licensed mental health or medical care.
This doesn't mean that a coaching client can never feel anxious, sad, stressed, frustrated, or uncertain. Those are normal parts of being human and may naturally come up in coaching. The distinction is whether we're helping you move toward a goal or attempting to treat a mental health condition or clinically significant distress.
What happens if therapy becomes more appropriate?
Sometimes the line isn't obvious at the beginning.
You might come to coaching wanting help setting boundaries, navigating a career change, improving communication, or figuring out what you want next. If our work begins to uncover concerns that would be more appropriately addressed through psychotherapy, I'll talk with you about it.
Depending on your needs and where you're located, that may mean transitioning to psychotherapy when I am legally able to provide it, pausing coaching while you receive treatment, or helping you identify an appropriate licensed mental health professional in your state.
The goal is to make sure you're receiving the type of support that actually fits what you're experiencing.