Certified Coaches and Therapists, Are they same?

ACHNET Achievers Network
3 min readMay 28, 2019

One of the most common types of stereotyping is that certified coaches and therapists are same kind of professionals. In reality, certified coaches are distinguished service providers who are more inclined towards helping aspiring achievers meet their goals in the most rewarding and fulfilling ways which invariably results in their success.

Here is a quick walk through of why certified coaches and therapists are different entities from each other

By definition, Therapy is commonly known as psychotherapy or counseling wherein the service taker has to closely work alongside a healthcare professional in order to medically diagnose issues or sometimes even the behavior, the crux is to help a person deal with traumas caused by the past or to bring changes to the self-destructive habits, a fairly long term affair with lots of emotional investment.

On the other hand certified coaches are resources that are availed for either short or long term periods; a service taker in this case interacts with certified coaches in order to gain insights with regards to professional or personal goals by spotting obstacles that hinders and the right kind of attitude that helps overcome which helps in creation of an action plan, achieving the desired results.

When we take a look at Practices that a certified coach and a therapist follow, the latter helps the service takers in exploring and making sense of both their conscious and subconscious mind, their journey is more profound and includes understanding of behaviors and patterns. A certified coach primarily focuses on an individual’s actions and the results achievable with these actions; success of results is measured in terms of identifying key performance indicators and specific behavioral outcomes as well as goals.

To sum up the understanding, therapists are more focused on an all round development of an individual in order to help them lead a healthy, normal life. Certified coaches, on the other hand, are more focused towards making quantifiable progress that an individual needs to achieve a goal; might be personal, professional or both in nature and eventually hustle towards a pre driven success.

Employing the services of a certified coach is not only helpful to make the journey towards success a little more endearing but also it gives individuals a chance to “TO BE WHERE THEY ARE UNDERSTOOD AND APPRECIATED”

At Achiever Network, a social platform that allows achievers and dreamers to connect with certified coaches who are industry experts with focused specialties, help you

  1. Clarify and achieve personal and professional goals

2. Ease your process of transition from one role to another

3. Identify and improve on your strengths

4. Guide young career enthusiasts about the right field of choice

5. Give you counseling and the needed follow up encouragement in the areas of life in general , finances and much more

Certified coaching isn’t simply a watered-down version of therapy. It is a dynamic discipline designed to help motivate and inspire people to achieve more than what they believe is possible, register today and start uprooting those possibilities with ACHNET .

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