Coaching vs Counselling: What’s the Difference?
It’s natural to feel unsure about which kind of support you need. While coaching and counselling can both be powerful, they serve different purposes.
Counselling (or therapy) helps you explore past experiences, emotional wounds, or mental health challenges. It’s often about making sense of what’s happened, healing from it, and feeling more emotionally stable in the present.
Coaching, on the other hand, is future-focused. It supports you to move forward – especially when you feel stuck, restless, or like something needs to change. Rather than analysing the past, we work together to clarify what matters to you, explore what’s getting in the way, and help you take meaningful steps forward – at your pace, in your own way.
If you’re in emotional crisis or dealing with trauma or clinical mental health conditions, therapy may be the more appropriate route. If you’re functioning day-to-day but feeling disconnected, lost, or ready for change – coaching can offer powerful, practical support.
Still unsure? Some people benefit from both.
What Does A Coach Actually Do?
A coach isn’t there to tell you what to do—just like a personal trainer won’t lift your weights for you.
Instead, your coach supports you to:
Clarify your future direction and vision
Understand yourself more deeply
Build confidence in uncertainty
Evolve how you lead, learn, and grow
Coaching Is About Helping You Thrive
The key to thriving in today’s world? Awareness.
When you slow down and look inward, you start to create the stability you need to move forward. From that place, purposeful change becomes possible.
How to Get the Most From Your Coaching
Use this as a mini-guide to prepare for your sessions and get the best out of them:
➤ 1. Prepare Ahead
Give yourself 10–15 minutes before each session. Ask: What’s on my mind? What needs attention?
➤ 2. Set an Intention
Even a rough idea of what you’d like to explore helps. Try this prompt:
“For this to be the most valuable hour of my week, it would need to be like what?”
➤ 3. Protect the Space
Silence notifications. Close tabs. Find a quiet spot where you won’t be interrupted.
➤ 4. Note Key Insights
Write or voice-note anything that lands strongly. It’ll help with reflection, journaling, and taking it forward.
➤ 5. Take Action
Insight is powerful—but action is where change happens. Leave with something small to test, try, or tweak.