Does Relationship Coaching Encompass Sex Coaching?

I recently joined a third-party website to promote my relationship coaching services. It is a good platform to earn money on coaching services and I have found two new clients in the past month. Not bad for starting out.

However, I believe some of these people are confused as to what relationship coaching actually is. I received several phone calls from people wanting to tell me their deep, dark secrets about fantasies and how their innate need to please themselves may be interfering in their relationships. Of course, a couple of individuals were not even in a relationship, nor were they interested in receiving help with dating.

Relationship Coaching

A relationship coach helps men and women discover what they may be doing wrong in their current relationship, or lack thereof, and devise a plan to make their relationship dreams come true. A dating and relationship coach helps people with getting over a break up, understand dating mistakes that are keeping them from meeting people, and discovering new or old ways to enrich their current relationships. Through relationship coaching, a person may even realize that he is unhappy in his current relationship and realize it is time to move on from a toxic partnership.

Sex Coaching or Counseling?

After receiving calls from some rather confused people (made me a tad uncomfortable), I decided to do a quick Google search. As I imagined, there are tons of websites currently offering sex coaching services. As a matter of fact, the site where I have my listing offers many licensed therapists and counselors who specialize in the “sex therapy” field.

All this leads me to question, “Does relationship coaching encompass sex coaching and should it?”

NO.

I am not quite sure what a “sex coach” is. However, I assumed and confirmed in my search, many sex coaches are in fact licensed professionals. During my coach certification training I remember being told that I must know when it is time to refer a client to seek the help of a licensed professional. I also believe we can or should be able to recognize when this needs to happen.

If a client says that he has been turned on in the past by simply speaking to his therapist, I would bet my coaching career that a relationship coach (or a sex coach for that matter) is not what the client seeks or needs. Once such a clue has emerged, is this not the time to refer him to a licensed professional who is trained and educated to deal with this type of situation?

In the end, there is obviously a demand for sex coaching. However, it is surely apparent that this is a distinct and separate niche from that of dating or relationship coaching.

 

Eda M. Handly
Certified Dating & Relationship Coach
Guest Writer, Coaches Training Blog community

 

About Eda M. Handly 

Eda M. Handly is a freelance writer and Certified Life Coach specializing in dating and relationships. She began counseling victims of domestic violence in 2004 as an advocate through the Erie County Prosecutor’s Office and has been helping people ever since. Handly is also an advice columnist and owner and creator of the dating and relationship advice website www.love-sources.com.

Technorati Tags: ,

How to Become A Certified Relationship Coach and Fill a Real Need

Have you ever wondered how to become a certified relationship coach? Maybe you’ve had great luck in relationships. Or maybe you just know the keys to making relationships work. Are you thinking about becoming a coach? Maybe you’re already coaching others and want to expand your practice to address relationship issues.

I don’t know about you, but relationships are at the top of my list when it comes to affecting my life. Many of my friends and family want to know how to make their relationships work for them. People always need support in this issue, so there’s always going to be clients. Would you like to know how to become a certifiable relationship coach?

Facts You Can Use: How to Become a Certified Relationship Coach

Helping people create joyful, balanced, and fulfilling interactions with others is the goal of a relationship coach. Healthy relationship skills can be learned when the client and coach work together to create a vision and plan for their relationships. In that way, relationship coaching is not much different than other coaching practices.

As a relationship coach, you may want to target a certain niche, and most often this is one that you relate to personally, one that is unique to you. Some examples include coaching gay and lesbian relationships, internet dating, couples’ relationships, marriage or divorce, dating relationships. Relationship coaching is  not limited to ‘love’ relationships; you can focus on relationships within families, professionally, or the office. You probably have known someone who’s been challenged by a professional relationship in a work situation – it happens all the time.

If you’ve wondered about how to become a certified relationship coach, training is available through several training institutes. Primarily, it takes a person who is passionate about helping people live a balanced approach to getting along with others. Some programs add a blend of teaching and mentoring to the certified practice.

Services Offered by Relationship Coaches

There are some dating coaches that actually go out with their clients, coaching them on the spot; or you can take a more traditional approach. It’s a decision you can make based upon the niche you’ve chosen.

Supporting your clients in developing healthy relationship skills is the primary and proven approach. Issues such as communication, boundaries, acceptance, and assertiveness are addressed. Help them create ways to let go of old negative habits and become better at interacting with others.

Modeling your understanding, insight and experience in the sessions with your clients will provide them with a clear demonstration of healthy and conscious relationships.  When you have a passion for and understanding of the subject matter, your clients will respond accordingly. Bring your honesty and vulnerability to the sessions and you’ll have a greater impact on how and what they learn from you.

Additional questions you might have around how to become a certified relationship coach can be answered by researching the variety of training programs on the Internet. Once you discover how to become a certified relationship coach, focus on marketing your services, and you’re likely to have a lot of requests for your brilliant coaching.

Would you like an endless stream of new coaching clients? Simply fill out the form to the right with your first name and email and I’ll send you free videos with step-by-step blueprints for generating a massive income from high paying coaching clients.

Marti Hess
Life Coach
Writing team, Coaches Training Blog Community

Technorati Tags: ,

Personal Dating Coach Builds Relationships

Whether you’re married or just starting out on the dating scene, a personal dating coach has some keen insight into dating and relationships. For starters, this is all subjective; however, it’s a great place to start. Dating can be tricky, especially when you’re just starting out, yet, once you have your dream relationship, it’s just as important to make a personal commitment to keeping the dating alive.

We’re Just Hard Wired That Way, Personal Dating Coach

Here’s a little insight from a coach, instant conflict. As a personal dating coach I’ve noticed that women want men to listen to them not fix their problems. They want men to communicate better, talk about their feelings. Women are more in tune with their emotions. Men on the other hand are single focused and often times don’t even realize there is a problem. Pay attention guys! But once they are aware of it, they want to fix the problem and make it all better.

Another area men and women clash in are with values. Men focus on prosperity and their profession. Securing their family financially and filling a sense of pride of a job well done. While women tend to be more family orientated and focuses on the home and children.

Plan Out Your Strategy To Enhance Your Dating

Working with a personal dating coach you become clear about what you want. It doesn’t matter if your single looking for a date or in a relationship desiring to keep it healthy by dating each other on occasion. Make it fun and exciting, but first you need to relax. This is where life is lived. Personal dating coaches teach that it’s important to be aware of your attitude and behaviors.

We have tremendous power of influence and it’s important to be positive, while praising good things. We tend to get that which we focus on. When it comes to praising vs complaining…praise will win every time. Make yourself happy, no one can do it for you. Enjoy your dating and create great memories together.

Special Bonus – Learn 32 ‘Guru’ Transformation Techniques when you fill in the form at the top right and click the “Watch The Videos Now” button. You’ll learn how to become a life coach in 30 days.

Mark Rabbitt
JTS Advisors Accountability Coach

Technorati Tags: ,

Dear Relationship Coach: My Partner Never Gets Frisky!

A well balanced mix of bad guy and good guy in you, makes you interesting to your mate. | Image by glamour.comYour relationship coach knows the tips and tricks to get your partner to get down and be more freaky deaky because if you or your partner don’t exude both bad boy and good boy or bad girl and good girl energies in your relationship, you aint going to be real excited about being in a long-term relationship with a person who can’t play both roles at least sometimes because the mystery, intrigue, and face it, balance of naughtiness and responsibility won’t be present to create the stability you want in sex and reliability, and even in your normal day-to-day challenges and interactions.

If you aint got it, you need to get it. The it is a well balanced mix of bad guy and good guy in you, and that’s what makes you interesting to your mate.

How can my relationship coach help me figure out the proper mix of light and dark energies?

You may never have heard of this concept of light and dark energies before, but it’s true a mix in the right proportions can add the flavor of life and spice to your relationship.

We usually talk about people in terms of good and bad, but in a relationship, coaches know good and bad can blur because we are playing roles to please each other or to please ourselves. The light and dark energy edge and balance is very important to maintain fulfillment on both sides of your relationship.

Light energy is about:

- Giving and serving
- Being a ’good boy’ or a ’good girl’. Think of it like a child that wants to please his/her parent.
- Innocence as well as happy, loving, nurturing attitudes
- Mature version of light energy would be responsibility and integrity

Dark energy is about:

- Mystery and seduction
- Think of ’playfulness’ in more of a naughty way
- Being the ’bad boy’ or ’bad girl’, who gets in ’trouble’
- Think of mischief, secrets, seduction, and trickery
- Selfishness and hedonism are part of the dark energy.

Relationship coaches know that male dark energy is more possessive, ravaging, predatory, and confrontive, while female dark energy is more seductive, duplicitous, and manipulative.

If you have some reason to want every one in your world to think you’re a really good, upstanding, and law abiding person, including God, then do yourself a favor. When your alone and being intimate with your partner, layoff the holier than thou image you project to everyone else and show your babe you can get frisky and risky.

On the other hand, if you’re always the bad guy, no one is going to be attracted to that for long. You’ve got to show some responsibility and let your light energy shine when it’s appropriate.

Example of light and dark energy in Hollywood.

Sandra Bullock and Jesse James are the quintessential couple who we can take a brief look at to see what’s going on with these 2 types of energy in your relationship.

Sandra Bullock:

Sandra is the light energy source. America feels and believes that this woman can do no wrong. She’s such a great mother and the roles she plays cast her in this light as well. What I’d like to know as a relationship coach from Sandra, do you ever let go of your good girl image for a moment and be the bad girl and express your dark side ever?

Jesse James:

Jesse is Hollywood’s true bad boy. Some might say he’s reckless in his behavior, but he seems to attract women like a magnet, even the good girls.

Sandra was attracted to Jesse because he had something she didn’t, and that was dark energy. It could be that Jesse actually brought dark energy out in Sandra, but we may never know because Sandra and her media team works hard to protect her good girl image.

The same can be said for why Jesse married Sandra, and that’s because he knows he needs someone in his life that leans towards being more responsible. Unfortunately, this couple didn’t have the right mix of dark and light energies to make their relationship last until death did them part.

If you are in a relationship that you’re now wondering how to capture the right mix of light and dark energy, you can hire a relationship coach to run an assessment on you and your partner and coach you through a relationship assessment to get your intimate partnership back on track with the right proportion of ebb and flow of light and dark energies.

By the way… you’re invited to claim your FREE step-by-step “30-Days to Become a Coach” video toolkit. Just go HERE now to get your 30-day coaching blueprint videos.

Donald Hunter
Certified JTS Accountability And Strategy Coach

Technorati Tags:

Dear Relationship Coach: Do Opposites Attract?

If there is no difference in sexual energy in the relationship, then there is no passion or attraction. | Image by iamsassychic.comA relationship coach knows the truth that if you’re in a steaming, hot relationship and you’re unsure about how your relationship will turn out for you, but the only thing is you know that you’re so deeply in love and attracted to your bad boy or bad girl and it’s crazy because you don’t quite know what you should believe about your deep feelings and your partners real true intentions. It’s understandable that you feel unsure, stressed, and fearful because opposites don’t really attract in the way you think. At least not in the long-run, so let’s get a better handle on what’s real and burst the opposites attract myths bubble.

Where opposites do attract is the basis for beginning your lasting relationship, but it’s not the thing that’ll keep your relationship together when storms come and the rain beats down on your sex bond, and the wind is so strong it blows you little love making home off it’s foundation.

As your relationship coach, here’s the truth on how opposites attract.

You may call this an aura , but opposites attract only in their sexual energies. It’s called polarity – like a magnet. You have polarity when there’s masculine and feminine energies going on in your relationship. Masculine energy attracts Feminine energy, and vice-versa.

Masculine energy is about:

  • Force
  • Wants Freedom / Peace
  • Significance / Certainty driven
  • Hunter
  • Centered/Solid

Feminine energy is about:

  • Power
  • Wants to be possessed
  • Love / Variety driven
  • Hunted/Pursued
  • Stormy/Flowing

Just because you’re a man doesn’t mean you shouldn’t or won’t have feminine energies at times. The same is true for a woman in that they may come from a place of masculine energies, depending on their natural behavioral styles and motivational values.

The coaching question is what is your center of gravity when it comes to sexual energies?

If there is no difference in sexual energy in the relationship, then there is no passion or attraction. You can see this truth playing out in a same sex relationship because for it to work, opposite sexual energies must be present as well. You may wonder why relationships sometimes shift and the partnership loses it’s polarity why that happens. It’s because the partners move closer together in their centers of gravity in terms of their sexual energies and they lose the hot passionate polarity they once had.

In some relationships, the man wants his sweet, feminine, innocent woman to get tougher. He wants her to be more goal oriented, rise to challenge, and kick but if the situation calls for it. She listens to this crap, and over time, she sees no way out and then she shifts her center of gravity closer to her man’s masculine center. Then, the polarity passion and power slowly dissipates and the 2 partners lose the excitement in their once steaming, hot relationship.

A strong woman with masculine energies can turn her man into a girlie man through the very same process because she’s unaware of the importance of the magnetic force that opposite sexual energies create for her and her once forceful, hunter  like man.

What keeps your tantalizing relationship together?

The 3 main goals for how to make your relationship work that a relationship coach answers to help partners who strive and desire to create in their relationships include:

  • Getting along better
  • Working together better as a team
  • Improving communications

These 3 main goals can be impacted positively and negatively by the 2 other things which are present in a relationship: natural behavioral tendencies and your values which are your emotional drivers. For simplicity sake, you can think of these 2 things as how you do things and why you’re motivated to do them. The more similar you are in these 2 very important areas, the more you’ll achieve the 3 desirous how to make a relationship work goals above. You can find out you and your partner’s natural behavioral styles and value drivers by purchasing a relationship assessment from a certified relationship assessment coach.

If you really have the hot, crazy, cool sex thing going on in your relationship, but you don’t get along or you don’t work well as a team or you face challenging communication hurdles, then seek out the priceless services of a relationship coach who can create a safe place for you and your partner to explore the relationship attractors and the relationship killers in an open and honest way. If you have been shifted off your center of gravity by your stronger partner, then get some coaching to get back to your center of gravity and put the steam and passion back into your little love machine.

Give this strategy a try and see for yourself that it works. If you liked this coaching tip, leave a comment or use the handy bookmark buttons below to share it with others on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc. Thanks!

Donald Hunter

Certified JTS Accountability And Strategy Coach

Technorati Tags:

Could Shakespeare Have Become A Relationship Coach?

If you want to become a relationship coach, you can gain a lot of understanding of the human heart and mind by studying Shakespeare’s writings.   I just read an article based on a quote from Othello in “Shakespeare in Modern Life” at Examiner.com.  The quote starts “She loved me for the danger I had passed….”  Now granted, the language is not modern–you might on occasion even require help to get the meaning.  But Shakespeare understands the emotions and motivations in relationships.

What Do You Need To Become A Relationship Coach?

.
No matter what field of coaching you go into, cultivating the know, like, and trust triad has to be first on your agenda.  Then to become a relationship coach, you need not only to hone your coaching skills and strategies, but also to develop a deep understanding of what makes relationships work or fail.   You need to become a super sleuth: spot the patterns in the way a couple interacts and listen for what isn’t being said.  Use assessments to help explain and defuse differences in the ways your clients communicate, and in their comfort zones regarding planning, socializing and decision making.  When you become a relationship coach, you are in a position to show that each partner is acting according to his or her nature and not just being perverse.  That knowledge, in itself, can go a long way toward repairing a  relationship.

What Does Othello Have To Do With Relationship Coaching?

.
“She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
And I loved her that she did pity them.”

The dangers refer to the war time experiences of the character, Othello, which his wife, Desdemona, has not personally experienced.  This brief quote encapsulates much of the material you use with your clients when you become a relationship coach.  It references the feminine vs. the masculine characteristics of the couple–he conquers danger and she feels sympathy and understanding for him having to do so.  At the same time it talks about his dark forceful energy and her light emotional energy–an important balance in a relationship.  And it explains that they love each other because of, and not in spite of, these differences.

Shakespeare didn’t become a relationship coach, but he has a lot to offer if you want to broaden your understanding of how and why people love and hate.  Pay extra attention next time you have the opportunity to enjoy one of Shakespeare’s works in print or on stage.  You might find something you can use with your clients!

By the way… you’re invited to claim your FREE step-by-step “Master Coach Blueprint” video toolkit. Just go HERE now to get your master coach blueprint videos.

.
Dorine G Kramer
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

Technorati Tags: ,

Relationship Coaching: The Surprising Lesson I Learned From My Husband

Sometimes valuable relationship coaching lessons pop up at the oddest moments. A few years ago a 2 year-old boy was staying at our house for an extended period. He happily played with my daughter toys; including the miniature kitchen, dolls, and strollers. One day my husband said that if this little guy was going to stay with us, he needed to have some “boy” toys. I was shocked, and a little resistant. Why was this a big deal?

The Biggest Relationship Mistake Women Make

.
We, as women, are so often focused on having the men in our lives be sweet, caring, and romantic that we neglect to appreciate the other side. The masculine side. The side that attracted us in the first place. Many times as women we even try to squash that side and try to get the men in our lives to be our best friends. We encourage them to be more like a best girlfriend than a man. We walk all over them and wonder where the romance went.

Can Relationship Coaching Make a Difference?

.
Fortunately, if one person commits to coaching it is possible to turn a roommate back into a lover. In order to restore the attraction, you need to encourage your clients to embrace their differences. Don’t make men eat quiche when they would rather barbeque. Personally I don’t really understand the fascination with fire; it must be some primal instinct. If you can get your relationship coaching clients to find ways to support their spouse in their gender role, however, you will often quickly see a shift in the relationship. It doesn’t mean women need to drink beer and sit on the sofa all day watching the games and acting more masculine; it just means allowing boys to be boys in their own unique way.

Would you like an endless stream of new coaching clients? Simply fill out the form to the right with your first name and email and I’ll send you free videos with step-by-step blueprints for generating a massive income from high paying coaching clients.
.

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach.

Technorati Tags: ,

Relationship Coach Tips: 3 Things Clients Must Stop Saying To Their Partners

Relationship coach tips for partnersBeing a relationship coach is about taking a stand for transformation. It is not, as commonly believed, about making a marriage, “better” or “improving” it. In order to create a new relationship, there must be a focus on possibilities that are based on the present, not the past. When people are committed to transforming their marriage, anything is possible. As their coach there are 3 rules you must enforce to make it happen.

Three Things Your Clients Should Never Say To Their Partner

.

1. The first one is, “I’m leaving.” Unless your relationship coach client has his/her bag packed and a place to move to, it is usually an idle threat. It is also one of the most damaging things to say to a partner because it demonstrates a complete lack of integrity and commitment. This is probably one of the reasons why the relationship is struggling. Help your clients realize that what they say is powerful, and in order to have the relationship they want they need to hold themselves to a higher standard.

2. The next is “I hate you” or “I don’t love you.” When people feel a threat of loss of a survival need, such as love/connection, they will either get angry or withdraw. When a partner hears this the argument may even escalate as he/she tries to regain significance. The drive for significance is really a polar opposite to love and connection, and will get the opposite effect that the partner would most likely wish for.

3. Anything that brings in the past. In order to transform their relationships, your clients must not only turn their backs on the past hurts, but also close the door, lock it and throw again the key. Without a commitment to move forward, there is no hope.

Become a Relationship Coach Who Helps Create a New Relationship

.

Once these basic relationship coach guidelines are in place, you set the stage to create goals that are so compelling that your clients are committed to take action. Your clients need to have a big vision in front of them will be pulled into the new future, otherwise the past will catch up with them and they will fall into old comfortable old habit and conversations.

Special Bonus Learn 3 simple ways to become a life coach with the “30-Days to Become a Coach” video toolkit when you fill in the form at the top right and click the “Watch The Videos Now” button. You’ll learn how to change your client’s life in 45 minutes.

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach

Technorati Tags:

How To Seem Clairvoyant When You Become A Relationship Coach

how to seem clairvoyant become a relationship coachWhen you become a relationship coach, you willingly and knowingly step into the middle of situations that most people avoid like the plague. Imagine how much trust you will have right from the start, if you can describe your client’s problems and conflicts before you even hear them from your client. Whether you are working with a husband and wife, with a parent and child, or with a family group, when you gain their confidence immediately, you will be more effective at improving communication between them and helping them build new bridges. Assessments allow you to do this. The DISC assessment is one of two that are particularly helpful in making you seem clairvoyant.

Assessments are the tool of choice when you become a relationship coach

.

Assessments are a shortcut when you begin coaching your clients on their relationship. With your client’s DISC assessments in hand, you immediately have an insight into each person’s natural behavioral inclinations and communication styles. That let’s you predict some of the problems your clients are most likely to have. Perhaps both partners are high D (the dominance factor). That probably made for great passion and sparks when they first got together, but maybe now they butt heads all the time. Perhaps the woman is a high C (the compliance characteristic) who is cautious with money and needs to evaluate all the options before making a choice, while the man is a high I (the influencing characteristic) who makes quick decisions without thinking them through. When you become a relationship coach, using the DISC profiles as a tool means you know a lot of what you are going to hear from your clients before you hear it!

Your job as a relationship coach

.

Your job may not be what you think when you become a relationship coach. Your job is not to tell people what to do. It is to shine a light on the similarities and differences in what they want from the relationship and in what they are getting. You clarify how each of them would like to relate to each other, and how they actually do. The DISC gives you an objective explanation about how they talk to each other, how they work together (or not), and how they differ in their approach to situations that come up. You tell them what you see, ask them how they want to proceed, and support them in moving forward however they choose.

Obviously, the DISC assessment is not the only thing you look at when you become a relationship coach. The PIAV assessment also will boost your apparent psychic powers. Then you’ll need to talk extensively with your clients to understand other factors which affect their relationship. Still, seeming like a mind reader is probably a good way to start.

Give this strategy a try and see for yourself that it works. If you liked this coaching tip, leave a comment or use the handy bookmark buttons below to share it with others on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc. Thanks!

Dorine G. Kramer
JTS Advisors Certified Strategy and Accountability Coach

Technorati Tags: ,

Relationship Coach Mysteries Solved: What Men Want

A relationship coach helps you find the inner girl ©tibchrisOne of the greatest relationship coach mysteries is understanding what the other person wants.  The key is to help your clients realize what they want most is not necessarily what their partner wants.  Most relationship problems can be transformed by solving this mystery alone.

Where A Relationship Coach Is Needed Most



According to Helen Andelin, author of “Fascinating Womanhood,” women appreciate poise, talent and intellectual wit (www.FascinatingWomanhood.net).  They dress in a sophisticated manner and wear artistic make-up.   They spend $200 on a pair of shoes only their girlfriends will admire.  Many of these women completely miss the boat when it comes to what men really want.  They need a coach, not a girlfriend who will support them.

What Do Men Really Want?



Men have a different interpretation of what makes a woman beautiful.  My husband doesn’t care for make-up, and according to Andelin he is not a minority.  She says that men place more importance on smiles and a sparkle in a woman’s eyes.   Someone once told me, “There is nothing more beautiful than a woman who is happy.”  Is it because of a more girlish, sweetness of character; or is it simply because she is expressing her femininity?   If you want to experience femininity in its purest form, watch a little girl twirl in front of a mirror in a new dress.

Whether you agree with everything Helen has to say, she does make a good point.  How do you use this in as a relationship coach?  Encourage your clients to express their feminine side.  Have you ever asked your relationship coaching clients when the last time they wore a dress on a date with their husband was?  When your women clients are able to express their femininity, they allow their husbands/boyfriends to express their masculinity.  This is a sure fire way to rekindle some old sparks from the dying embers.

By the way… you’re invited to claim your FREE step-by-step “Life Coach Salary Secrets” video toolkit.  Just go HERE now to get your Life Coach Salary Secrets.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach

Technorati Tags: