Frequently Asked Questions

Focus:

• Therapy: Focuses on healing past wounds, addressing emotional distress, and resolving psychological issues.
• Coaching: Focuses on present and future goals, enhancing performance, and developing skills.

Time Orientation:

• Therapy: Often explores past experiences to understand current challenges.
• Coaching: Primarily concentrates on current actions and future outcomes.

Professional Scope:

• Therapy: Conducted by licensed mental health professionals (psychologists, counselors, etc.) who can diagnose and treat mental health disorders.
• Coaching: Conducted by trained professionals who guide individuals toward personal or professional goals, but do not diagnose or treat mental illness.

Problem vs. Goal:

• ‍Therapy: Often problem focused, working to resolve or alleviate psychological pain.‍
• Coaching: Generally goal focused, working to achieve a desired outcome.

Medical Model vs. Developmental Model:

• ‍Therapy: Often uses a medical model, where the therapist is the expert, and the client is the patient.‍
• Coaching: Uses a developmental model, where the client is the expert of their own life, and the coach is a facilitator.

When Coaching is appropriate:

• You want to enhance your performance in a specific area (career, business, etc.).
• You are looking to develop new skills or improve existing ones.
• You want to set and achieve clear, actionable goals.
• You are seeking support in making a life transition.
• You are generally healthy and want to maximize your potential.

When Therapy is appropriate:

• You are experiencing emotional distress, such as anxiety, depression, or grief.
• You are struggling with past trauma or unresolved issues.
• You are having difficulties in your relationships.
• You are experiencing symptoms of a mental health disorder.
• You need a safe space to process difficult emotions and experiences.

Rapid Results Coaching is one of the fastest ways to change behaviour. Typically we work with a program lasting 8 sessions. This could be done in a single day, but is typically spread over 4 to 8 weeks.

However, most people say that they experience a significant improvement or change during their first session.

Different coaches have different pricing structures, ranging from $120 an hour to $400 an hour. Some coaches will charge for a program.

The Happy Dad Project is program based and you can see the costs on the Coaching page.

When conducted by a trained coach, coaching is considered a very safe process for most people, unless they have a severe mental illness.

Throughout your Big Dadventure coaching you are always in control, always conscious and always able to stop the session if you are not comfortable with how things are progressing.

This dynamic approach works well for clients of all ages, from all kinds of backgrounds at home, at work, at school and anywhere else in between. As family is a critical component of fatherhood, I often work with teens and young adults.

When working with anyone under the age of 18, I will need parental consent and will ask for a parent or guardian to be present at one or more of the sessions, depending on how things are progressing.