If is about resolving your past and staging you for a healthy present; and
if is to walk with you in your journey from present to a bright future
Marriage Counseling and Relationship Coaching
[we offer both]
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Marriage Counseling & Relationship Coaching
- similar goals; different approaches and applicability
Marriage Counseling
#1. Diagnosis & Issues driven
#2. Problem Focussed
#3. Ideal if Mental Health is also a problem
Combining the Two
Even the GOALS can be different in seeking help from a Marriage Counselor (Psychotherapist) and / or Couples Coach. And YES, you can avail both.
Relationship Coaching
#1. Results driven
#2. Opportunity Focussed
#3. Ideal for all seeking quicker yet effective results
Marriage Counseling: Practitioner is an expert / Relationship Coaching: Practioner is an informed partner
Marriage Counseling: helps heals / Relationship Coaching: helps achieve goals
Marriage Counseling: Limited off session contact with Practitioner / Relationship Coaching: Unlimited messaging support
- IF NOT DIAGNOSED WITH MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS- ENGAGING A COUPLES COACH IS A WIN-WIN even if diagnosed; READ BELOW
Duration
Marriage Counselor (Psychotherapists) attend to issues even relating to mental health if that is in play in relationship crisis. If not diagnosed, you may just seek Relationship Coaching.
- Marriage Counseling can last anywhere from months to years and is paid by the session.
- Relationship Coaching is mostly weeks to months and negotiated in packages.
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PRACTITIONER
Marriage Counselors is more in a position of an expert and directs the flow, duration and process following a technique or method. Relationship Coaching is more like hashing it out in candid spirits with an informed friend.
- Marraige Counseling sessions are serious and objective and is subject to a code followed by the Practitioner.
- Relationship Coaching is delivered with fair mix of candidness, humor and yet direct as much as intense.
Orientation and Approach
Marriage Counseling is systematic, follow professional ethics and is both process and method driven. Relationship Coaching is relatively informal, proactive, futuristic goals driven tending to a much shorter time-line with straight, direct yet intense conversations.
- Marriage Counseling addresses 'What's the problem', 'why so', and achieves to resolve the differences.
- Relationship Coaching is more about - what's possible now given the present situation.
INSURANCE
Marriage Counseling is generally covered by insurance. Or if paid in cash, may be reimbursed by most health insurance plans. Relationship Coaching is not covered by insurance. However, please note the differences below –
- Marriage Counseling, even if covered by insurance, entails payments for several months of coinsurance or deductible before insurance can be made to pay for the sessions. This can become a relatively longer term cost.
- Relationship Coaching is mostly out of pocket but for weeks or months; but not more than 3-6 months. Also, if advised by a Counselor; it may be paid out of HSA / FSA health savings account under a tax expert's advice.
- COMBINING COACHING WITH COUNSELING- BENEFITS ARE COMPLEMENTARY NOT OVERLAPPING
Benefits of a marriage counseling
Marriage Counseling can be deeply related to mental health issue(s) and has unmatched lasting benefits.
- It is more about the past and the present.
- Emphasis is more around feelings, thoughts and emotions in resolving the differences.
- It does take time – medium to long term benefits.
- Since Counseling is process driven, meeting agenda is more in control of the Practitioner.
- Helps with analyzing fears; helps even unmotivated clients; sessions are time-distanced as weekly or twice in a month, sometimes just monthly; not time-bound; helps alleviate dysfunctions caused by the diagnosis.
Benefits of Relationship Coaching
Relationship Coaching is fairly new avenue for couples’ problems and while it does not address mental health related issues; it can modify it’s scope to include and help other areas of life.
- It is more about the present and the future.
- Emphasis is more on taking action around goals to resolve the differences.
- It is more immediate and can take longer but cannot last more than 2-6 months.
- Meeting agenda can be proposed by the clients.
- Helps more with removing fears, helps clients motivated to achieve a goal or a result; sessions can be dictated by need or even clients themselves; it can be as frequent as twice or even thrice in a week to once in 2 weeks; very much time-bound by appointed GOALS; helps clients to be able to combat future relationships issues by leaving enough proactive exercises and routines to follow.
... it is not one versus the other; they are different
- GET YOU ON A PATH OF RECOVERY - HOW CAN we HELP YOU A time efficient recovery and an effective one
We set you up for an immediate 'FREE' RELATIONSHIP COACHING session
Our approach is different but it is very objective to the time and pressing concerns of your relationship.
We deliver our Coaching Session on the appointed date and time
In this session, we help assess your issues (Coaching style); if diagnosed with any mental health issues - line you up with a veteran Marriage Counselor at a discounted rate (if cash); answer any of your questions in relation to the distinctions between Marriage Counseling and Relationship Coaching.
Counseling, Coaching or BOTH
We offer discounts if you engage us for both. No matter what, we make sure you get your Marriage Counseling or Relationship Coaching sessions on time from two different providers. We stay with you for the entire time you keep our providers engaged.
Channel back to your Provider(s) on your Progress
In case of dual engagements, our providers seek your HIPAA authorizations so that they align their services with an integrated approach. Such approach has brought enormous benefits to our patrons in the recent past.
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No matter the outcome of our services, we remain available for you to reach us anytime with questions, clarifications or any other requests. And we respond to them in utmost generosity without doctor's office like bureaucratic responses.
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