Life Coach vs Counselor - Intro

Holly is an intuitive life coach who wants to explain the difference between a life coach and a counselor. She believes that life coaches, who have personal experience with overcoming struggles, can better understand and help their clients. She plans to address various topics in her podcast episodes and offer guidance. Insurance doesn't cover life coaching, but rates are typically low. She has a website where she offers a free consultation. In her next episode, she will discuss anxiety, grounding, and mindfulness techniques. Hi everyone. Thanks for listening to my podcast. Welcome. This is my first one that I'm doing and just as an introduction, my name is Holly. I am an intuitive life coach. What that basically means is I'm also gifted with abilities. You could say like a psychic would have, but I have great intuition from people, which allows me to see more into, you know, the frame of things. So that helps fit with me there. So what I also wanted to discuss was there's always this big thing about do I go life coach versus counselor. I wanted to discuss a little bit of a difference between the both because sometimes people aren't really sure what is out there. So a counselor is someone that basically has gone through college, okay? It is book knowledge. They learn the skills, techniques, and they all learn the basic same thing over and over again to implement in a practice when they're working with the patient. However, this doesn't unfortunately cover, you know, everything. You could have a person that came from a wealthy household that's never experienced a day of trauma in their life, that's never, you know, had to deal with loss or grief or mental health issues and they decide they want to become a counselor. Well, how do they really understand their clients if they don't understand what they've ever been through? So what a nice thing about a life coach is, a life coach typically, if you find the right one, has experienced things in the past. This has made them who they are and makes them want to reach out to those people struggling with the same things that they went through, that they've overcome, and they have found ways to work through the anxiety, work through the depression, work through not being able to hold a job, work through, you know, bad home situations, abuse, PTSD, domestic violence. A lot of them have went through all of that. And with this, what I'd like to do, because I have experienced pretty much all of it, is I will be doing different episodes addressing different topics and addressing how I can help as a life coach. And what are some of the benefits? Because typically with a life coach, yes, unfortunately insurance does not cover us. We are not recognized providers by the insurance, but the rates are typically low if you find a good life coach that's doing it for the right reasons. Second, like, we have more of an open schedule, right? We don't have to call a place and leave messages and wait for a call back and wait for the insurance to be checked. We don't have to get on a waiting list for life coaches, typically, unless, you know, they're really developed and have their clients ahead of time. But follow me through. I will have additional episodes coming up on, you know, tackling anxiety, depression, things to do to help you, you know, work through struggles of a job. Dealing with children when you're feeling overwhelmed. I am a mom. I'm a wife. I'm a daughter. I'm a sister. I'm a pet mom. Life is crazy. And I'm just here to kind of help you, guide you through it. I have some additional information if you'd like to look me up on my website, which is www.lovelightandguidance.com. Don't be swayed by seeing also that I read tarot cards. Like I said, I am an intuitive as well. So this is allowing me to further my life coaching skills because I can really kind of feel what people are feeling when they're talking to me. Even if you're not open fully about it, I know inside what you're going through. Well, I call you out on it sometimes. And sometimes, you know, it's just a matter of let me work around this and see if I can kind of throw cues in to see if that helps them. But I hope I look forward to, you know, helping some of you. I hope you all visit my website. I do offer a free consultation just to get to know you. I would never charge anybody a service when I don't know that we're a good fit. And then with that, you could request that on my website. Also, stay tuned for my next episode. It is going to be based on anxiety, grounding, and mindfulness. These are really great tools to help you when you are having an anxiety or a panic attack. I hope to see you in my next episode. Thanks, guys.