ready to go beyond therapy?

There is a lot of talk nowadays about people hiring a certified life coach instead of a therapist or vice versa. So how do you know which one is best for you? In the following sections, I’ll break down some of the key differences between each discipline so you can better discern what you need. But let me just say first that the cool thing about working with Stillpoint Therapy in Las Vegas is that you don’t have to choose one or the other. Since I have extensive training as both a clinical therapist AND a certified life coach, I can effectively use both with all of my clients.

I do not compartmentalize my training, knowledge, and skills when I work with someone. Therapy isn’t strictly about the past or “problems”. While life coaching isn’t limited to just the future, creation, or accountability support, etc. Sometimes I will work with coaching clients to help them develop an understanding of difficult emotions. While other times I may work with them to resolve past pain that’s getting in the way of who they want to be in their lives or what they want to accomplish. And sometimes a therapy client will benefit greatly from shifting their focus from how the past got created to learning how to create what they want now and in the future.

Generally speaking, life coaching is more focused on creation and forward movement. While therapy is more focused on self-understanding and resolving past pain. Along with developing an awareness of and changing maladaptive emotional and behavioral patterns. My knowledge and experience in both realms is a very good thing because it protects you, the client, from getting incomplete help. I’ve seen a lot of people hire “coaches” that really needed some mental and emotional help that their coach was not trained to be able to help them with. And I’ve seen people going to therapists who would actually get more out of coaching work.

But whether you are a “therapy” client or a “coaching” client our focus will be on helping you get what you need out of our time together. All while creating the results you are there to create. In a way, it’s like getting a two-for-one deal. I have the training to do anything a good Las Vegas therapist can do. But I also have the skill and knowledge to go beyond just getting to a neutral “okay” or “healing” place. I can help you really thrive and create your life to be beyond anything you might imagine is possible right now.

It’s more useful to address this question from a position of “Where are you Starting”. Rather than with an “Either/Or” mentality. Generally speaking, life coaching is a better starting place for those who are wanting to create something in their life. But they are either feeling stuck or want help getting there faster with fewer pit stops. Therapy, on the other hand, is a better starting point if you’re up against a big problem. In which you are seeing some emotional or behavioral patterns that you want to work through, understand, and transform.

At this point in my career at Stillpoint Therapy, I have worked with thousands of people from every walk of life with just about any problem (therapy) or ambitious desire they want to fulfill (coaching). I’m able to skillfully pull from lots of knowledge and experience to meet you where you are and get you moving in the right direction. In my experience, healing work and life creation and goals work are much more powerfully addressed TOGETHER. Rather than addressed SEPARATELY. If you want to do or create anything cool, inspiring, or meaningful in your life, you’re absolutely going to come up against difficult emotions that you’ll need to grow through. And on the other side of things, if you’re up against a big problem that you want to overcome, it’s way more effective to do so if you’re able to not just zoom in (get into the nitty gritty therapy work) but also zoom out and see the bigger picture. This helps you not get swallowed up by the emotional drama and story that your brain is creating. It gives you perspective and a lifeline to help pull you through to the other side of the pain and struggle.