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Therapist as Life Coach: An Introduction for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals (Revised and Expanded) (Norton Professional Books)

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I had been working as a psychotherapist for years and really loved my work. Yet, I wanted to be able to work with patients beyond just helping them move from dysfunctional to functional. I picked up "Therapist as Life Coach" and couldn't put it down! As I thumb through it to write this review I realize I highlighted nearly the entire book! This book opened up a whole new world to me. From discussing the roots of coaching with terms familiar to therapists and counselors to exploring the similarities and differences between therapy and coaching, this book helped clearly define coaching for me. The author covers life coaching and the myriad of applications of the skills so you can customize your practice. He also provides great ideas for building and marketing your business. "Therapist as Life Coach" gave me a tremendous start in my transition from therapist to coach. I think it's great for anyone wanting to add coaching skills to their current practice to enhance their skills or who want to move into coaching as their primary career.

I found this book to be very insightful but more importantly, very usable. At first, I was skeptical because I was not a therapist going into coaching. I wasn't sure that it would be relevant to me. I was happy to be proven wrong. There are very practical things you can use immediately. As a corporate coach, this is a book that I refer to often.

I am a marriage and family therapist who is adding life coaching to my work so this book would seem like a natural transition. What I found is that it spends much to much time on differentiating coaching from therapy. I was hoping for more focus on becoming a good coach.

One good thing that came out of learning more about Pat Williams and his coaching school is I found out they use the book "Co-Active Coaching" in their classes and I read that as well. That is a brilliant book and I will be training at the Coach Training Institute that put that book out.

THERAPIST AS LIFE COACH, Revised and Expanded

If you are starting a coaching business or are a therapist wanting to expand your practice to include coaching, this book is a helpful tool. It provides information on what coaching is and how it differs from therapy. It gives a framework of how the coaching works for both the client and coach. Included are sample questions coaches ask, forms that can be included in a Welcome Packet, and an expanded list of marketing strategies.

This book was everything I needed to begin the process of transitioning my practice. It was highly informative and useful, as well as a really great read! I refer to it regularly and strongly recommend this book to all professionals even if you aren't considering transitioning your practice to life coaching. There are so many useful tools throughout the book! FANTASTIC!

As one who has trained to become a therapist, this book helped to solidify my calling to become a professional life coach instead. Prior to reading the book, I knew very little about coaching; however, Williams and Davis do a great job over viewing the history of coaching and its promising future. The book provides very good distinctions and similarities between counseling and coaching along with powerful transition tools to make the switch from counselor to coach somewhat seamless. The book is packed with practical "Try It" exercises that are very useful in sessions and/or fieldwork assignments with clients.

This material is especially formulated for those who are therapists or other helping professionals who are interested in the transition from a therapeutic, pathology-based, managed care world to the positive, strengths-based, empowering world of life coaching. The perspective on what to keep and what to let go of all the therapeutic training is insightful.