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How to figure out if you need a career coach, a life coach or a therapist
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Posted on 01/28/2021 8:54:32 PM PST by nickcarraway

For many, the stresses of the pandemic have resulted in burnout. While everyone has their own personal ways of coping with work-related stress, like exercise or meditation, an expert can help.

There are several routes that you can take toward self-improvement, from therapy apps to coaches who specialize in helping executives and entrepreneurs. The question is, how can you tell which type of expert is right for your needs?

There's some overlap between the jobs of a career or life coach and a therapist, but they're not the same thing, Esther Boykin, a licensed marriage and family therapist and CEO of Group Therapy Associates, tells CNBC Make It. For starters, therapists are required to meet education and license requirements to provide treatment. Coaches aren't held to the same rigorous standards. Anyone can say they're a "coach," and expertise can vary drastically. (The International Coaching Federation is a self-regulating organization that provides training and credentialing for coaches, and is trying to change this.)

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1 posted on 01/28/2021 8:54:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
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They all need God...


2 posted on 01/28/2021 9:03:09 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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Reminds me of an old joke where if you were “eccentric” or “off” or “round the twist” was dependent on how big your bank account was.


3 posted on 01/28/2021 9:04:24 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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So we really need to take this advice from a leftist press? Pure unadulterated nonsense, crap too. You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. John 8:32. And the truth is not from the rabid leftist press, no matter what you think.


4 posted on 01/28/2021 9:05:56 PM PST by Fungi
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How about all of the Help truly needed, after the Death of: conservatism, capitalism, Republicanism, free and fair elections, executions of all non-Leftists, and executions of all religious individuals except Islam and pro-Leftistism?


5 posted on 01/28/2021 9:10:54 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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You don’t need any namby-panzy BS. If you’ve got a problem you can’t solve or let go of - tell your dog. Tell it to a campfire, contemplate it over a whiskey or six. In the end, learn to go with your gut, problem solved.


6 posted on 01/28/2021 9:26:56 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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All I need is more ammo


7 posted on 01/28/2021 9:39:31 PM PST by lump in the melting pot
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Life coach, no creds, $240-$300 an hour, selling aromatic snake oil.

Therapist, $60-250, licensed snake oil.

Bible and friends, free, no strings.


8 posted on 01/28/2021 9:40:50 PM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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“Just give me Jesus!”


9 posted on 01/28/2021 9:41:33 PM PST by Maudeen (A question to answer, "Will my name be written in the Lamb's Book of Life?" Revelation 20:15)
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$240-$300 an hour?? That much?


10 posted on 01/28/2021 9:41:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
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A six pack and a day on the lake works wonders.

But I suppose that will be illegal soon enough,


11 posted on 01/28/2021 10:04:22 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes. )
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The dog is my life coach.
I wish I could be the man he thinks I am...


12 posted on 01/28/2021 10:11:34 PM PST by glasseye (It's okay to hate democrats...)
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I don’t believe in any of this psychobabble crap. Just learn to figure your problems out on your own. It’s called life.


13 posted on 01/28/2021 10:13:08 PM PST by HotHunt
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They just need Jesus.

Man cannot give them what they need nor fix what’s broken inside them.


14 posted on 01/28/2021 10:23:41 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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Fortunately I have all three.

Me, me and me.


15 posted on 01/28/2021 11:02:49 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the MAGA Party.)
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I know three women who bill themselves as “life coaches”. Each of them have multiple divorces and are batshit crazy.


16 posted on 01/28/2021 11:05:11 PM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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Oh for cryin’ out loud! Get a grip! Grow up and toughen up! A “”life coach’’.


17 posted on 01/28/2021 11:05:30 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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How to figure out if you need a career coach, a life coach or a therapist

How to figure out if you need a priest, a pastor, or a rabbi

How to figure out if you need more life insurance, more fire insurance, or more personal liability insurance [by a high-pressure insurance salesman]

Regards,

18 posted on 01/29/2021 12:48:36 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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bookmark


19 posted on 01/29/2021 12:53:51 AM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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The company I work for has had one on a couple times. She babbles on with a random stream of non-sense.


20 posted on 01/29/2021 4:48:15 AM PST by pas
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