{"id":2005,"date":"2009-08-22T15:29:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2016-08-12T09:30:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T17:30:26","slug":"psychology-coaching-a-growing-psychological-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/psychology-coaching-a-growing-psychological-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology Coaching: a Growing Psychological Career? How a Coach Can Beat The Pants Off The Average Head Shrink"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Think That Coaching Isn&#8217;t a Psychological Career?<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"psychology coaching\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/category\/psychology-coaching\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Psychology coaching<\/strong><\/a> is a real profession, and a valid <a title=\"psychological career\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2009\/03\/becoming-a-career-coach-career-coaching-training-how-you-make-every-coaching-session-your-best\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>psychological career<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to come out of the closet right now.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a <strong>psychology coaching<\/strong> expert.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never taken or completed a course in psychology, and never been certified as a counselor, but I still believe that I work in an industry made up of one <strong>psychological career<\/strong> after another.<\/p>\n<p>As coaches, we get a bad wrap in many ways, but we have really turned the world on its head when it comes to one thing:\u00a0 Beating the psychotherapists at their own game.\u00a0 We have become the most respected community of people working in a <strong>psychological career<\/strong> to turn many psychological problems around within extremely short periods of time, without the use of drugs.\u00a0 Can your average head shrink say that?<\/p>\n<p>NOPE<\/p>\n<p>So how do a rag-tag band of pseudo-<strong>psychology coaching<\/strong> professionals produce results that most in a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">psychological career <\/span>can&#8217;t do after 8 years of schooling?\u00a0 We use a few simple techniques that, when mastered, are extremely effective.<\/p>\n<h3>Psychology Coaching: Get Past The Lies That Most in a Psychological Career Put up With<\/h3>\n<p>Most therapists and head shrinks (and others in a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">psychological career<\/span>) would allow their clients \/ patients to lie right to their face.\u00a0 If you diagnose someone as a &#8216;crazy person&#8217; wouldn&#8217;t you just \u201cunderstand\u201d whatever they threw at you?\u00a0 Those of us in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">psychology coaching<\/span> profession don&#8217;t label people like that, so we expect even the &#8216;craziest&#8217; people to shoot straight and tell the truth.<\/p>\n<h3>Are Most People in a Psychological Career Too Lazy to Get Past The Lies?<\/h3>\n<p>Why is this &#8216;Truth Therapy&#8217; so effective?\u00a0 Because 90% of the time, the reason why someone is limited or is feeling lousy in the first place is because they are lying to themselves, lying to other people, or simply &#8216;omitting \/ ignoring&#8217; the truth (i.e. lying!).\u00a0 If you do nothing but expect the truth from your clients, you will be more successful in helping them than 90% of those in a psychological career.<\/p>\n<h3>Psychology Coaching Elegance:\u00a0 Balancing The Truth With Sensitive Optimism in Your Psychological Career<\/h3>\n<p>If all that I did in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">psychology coaching<\/span> was just push the truth out of people, it wouldn&#8217;t be that effective (although it would still be more effective than most others that work in a psychological career).<\/p>\n<p>After you bludgeon your coaching clients with the truth, you&#8217;ve got to have a heart.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve got to be sensitive to WHY they lied to themselves (or you, or others, etc.) and help them to transition to telling the truth in a way they can deal with.\u00a0 Eventually the truth can set them free, but your job as a psychology coaching professional is to help them to feel good about the truth, as well as to take on the power to change what they can to create an even &#8216;better truth&#8217;.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve got to supply the optimism for your client to do that.<\/p>\n<h3>Psychology Coaching Comes Out of The Closet as a Highly Respected Psychological Career<\/h3>\n<p>As psychology coaching has grown, we&#8217;ve gotten more and more respect as a psychological career.\u00a0 More therapists, counselors, and psychologist are becoming psychology coaches because it&#8217;s a good career move, a respected profession, and actually a better experience and more valuable service to the client.\u00a0 Let the psychology coaching profession &#8216;come out of the closet&#8217; and take its place among the most highly recognized and respected psychological careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think That Coaching Isn&#8217;t a Psychological Career? 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