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Build Your Private Practice – Resource

Sue — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:53:05 +0000

Want to build a thriving private practice?

If your practice or business is not where you want it to be, check out the Build Your Private Practice Exclusive Members Program.

Casey Truffo and Juliet Austin have created this site to support therapists, coaches and healing professionals to build their business. Here’s what members receive:

Monthly ‘Master the Basics’ Practice-Building Strategies Teleseminar
Monthly ‘Advanced Practice-Building Strategies Teleseminar’
Bi-Monthly ‘Q&A’ Teleseminar
Bi-Monthly ‘Copywriting Critique’ Teleseminar
Members Only Discussion Forum
Access to Resources, Checklists and Audio-recordings of al teleconference calls

Only $4.95 to try it out for one month

Psychologist and Business VP turned Life Coaches

Sue — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:47:40 +0000

Another decent introduction to life coaching that focuses on two women with very different backgrounds. Maurine Patten is a clinical psychologist who added coaching to her practice while Ana Webber has been a business leader for 17 years. In the article the women share (very briefly) about coach training, their specialties, and the fees they charge.

Life coach helps those struggling with the negatives

Here’s a second article by the same writer. This time he talks about the coaching session he had with Maurine and with Ana.

Reporter gets a firsthand look at life coaching

Coaching vs Therapy

Sue — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:48:04 +0000

You may wonder how coaching differs from therapy. In a nutshell, coaches support clients who are healthy and are ready to work towards goals. They do not work with clients to ‘heal’ trauma or on underlying psychological issues.

Dr. Patrick Williams has written an article on this topic: “Coaching Vs. Psychotherapy: The Great Debate

Williams is the founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT), an organization that trains therapists and helping professionals to become coaches.