The Difference between Therapy and Spiritual Life Coaching

In having been to a couple of therapists on my own and in talking with many of my clients about their therapy, I thought it would be a good idea to clarify some of the primary difference between traditional psychological / psychiatric therapy and Spiritual Life Coaching.

So for one thing, traditional therapies like to diagnose a person and give them a label. Common psychological disorders include: ADHD, Anxiety, Addictions, Bipolar, Borderline Personality, Dissociative Identity, Depression, Eating Disorders, etc.

In Spiritual Life Coaching, we start out with the premise that every person is a Divine Spiritual Being. We know this to be true and our role is to help the client realize this for themselves.

Traditional therapy prescribes drugs to treat the various disorders.

In Spiritual Life Coaching, we know that the disorder itself is an illusion created by the mind. While we do not interfere with anyone under a doctor's care and cannot/will not tell anyone to stop taking drugs if they are on them, the client themselves will eventually stop because they realize they feel much better without the drugs than with them. We will have to peel away the layers of emotional pain to get to that point though.

Traditional therapy gives clients ways to cope with their "disorder."

We give our clients a way to permanently heal their pain and this creates permanent behavioral change in their lives.

Traditional therapy quite often goes on for years, sometimes decades.

With Spiritual Life Coaching, the average client experiences a 35% improvement in how they feel in 15 sessions. The average client completes their coaching in 30 sessions. Some clients opt to go beyond that to have help to work on some isolated issues, but the average client will heal 80% of their repressed emotional pain in 30 sessions...if they do the work.

Now that's the kicker.

In traditional therapy, the onus is on the therapist to do all of the work. While there can be homework sometimes, typically the client just comes in every week and the therapist tells them what to do next, sometimes even guiding them to make life choices in their relationships. This isn't supposed to happen, but the client can become so enmeshed with the therapist that it does happen sometimes.

As a Spiritual Life Coach, I never guide my clients to make life choices. But all of my clients must do the work if they are going to heal. I teach them how to master each step of the process and how to use all of the tools they are given so that they understand why things are happening and how to heal it long after our work together is completed.

In traditional therapy, the therapist themselves may have completed a degree, studied the disorders, therapeutic treatments and learned how to be a great counselor. But they also likely never healed their own emotional issues. Many therapists are attracted by the field unconsciously because they want to heal their own stuff.

But one cannot heal simply by studying healing. You have to do it. You cannot give away that which you don't have.

As a Spiritual Life Coach, I had to go through my own course before I could learn to teach it to others. I healed the first 80% in my own coursework. Then I started teaching it to others and have been doing so for the past 4 years. I have healed so much of my remaining pain that I am able to live most of my time in the present moment now because I have very few negative emotional anchors to my past. I have given them up...healed them.

I teach this to others because I know what it like to carry so much pain, anger, disappointment, frustration, fear, embarrassment and shame around. I know how all of that energy attacks the body and creates dis-ease within it. I know how the repression of emotional energies impacts relationships, careers and one's sense of self-worth / well-being.

Having healed most of my own pain, I am able to help others peel away their layers of emotional pain. I help them to realize themselves as the Spiritual Beings that they truly are and live their lives from that perspective.

I don't just offer hope...I provide a way to heal permanently for anyone who has reached the point where they know they have to find a way to change and are willing to do whatever it takes to do that.

I am there as your guide every step of the way, leading you to healing, leading you home to your Self.

All you have to do is reach out your hand for help.

Namaste

Jeff

Jeff Scholl

Certified Spiritual Life Coach

Learning to Flow

http://www.learningtoflow.com/