141: An exploration of coaching & therapy with Catherine Hormats
The Uncommon Couch
141: An exploration of coaching & therapy with Catherine Hormats
Have you ever wondered what the difference between coaching and therapy is? There can be some overlap in terms of the issues our clients are facing, and how we approach those issues. In this episode of Uncommon Couch, I chat with Catherine Hormats to talk about how to define coaching vs. therapy, the four key distinctions between the two, and how to maintain ethical boundaries when working with clients. Catherine is an executive coach, organizational psychologist, and psychotherapist who guides her clients to a place of wholeness, creativity, and self-expression.
What you’ll find in this episode:
[04:17] Catherine shares the similarities between coaching and therapy, plus four key areas of distinction
[10:24] Despite the differences, you absolutely can do both therapy and coaching
[13:09] How we can define the rich, broad field of therapy
[18:42] How we can use therapeutic approaches in a different context and apply them to business coaching, while still maintaining ethical boundaries
[33:54] Catherine shares when is the right time for people to seek out therapy and/or coaching
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Quotes:
[00:07:41] Catherine Hormats: What is the purpose of why we're exploring childhood? Is it to serve the present and the future, or is it to heal a past trauma or some deeper subconscious issue that requires deeper processing and awareness? [00:07:54][13.4]
[00:08:43] Alyssa Adams: I like to describe coaching as we're not trying to heal or treat the symptom set. We're taking people from their baseline of kind of okay and pretty resourced and alright to building on those skills and taking them from baseline up to greater scale, greater future direction, clarity on skills, and something that's moving in a forward direction versus trying to remedy or improve a collection of symptoms that's more in the diagnosis based place. [00:09:16][33.6]
[00:12:16] Catherine Hormats: I think for people who are listening, who are looking for a coach or therapist, it's really important to interview a number of people and ask these deep questions: How do I know that you're being the coach now or the therapist now? And how do I distinguish when we're doing one versus the other? [00:12:33][17.2]
[00:18:02] Catherine Hormats: The reason why I became a therapist after having been certified as an executive coach was I felt like coaching was snorkeling and therapy was scuba diving, and I wanted to have the skills of both to look at people as whole, dimensional beings.