If you are looking for a life coach to help you recover from abuse, I want to warn you that life coaches are not licensed to complete mental health work. We do not dig in and help people heal from trauma! That is therapy, and we leave that to doctors and mental health workers.
In the recovery process, you may feel stuck in place. You may feel unable to move forward. You may have lost your footing in an abusive situation and perhaps you are lacking self-confidence, which may hold you back from reaching your goals.
This is the role of a life coach, to help you unlock what you already possess – the ability to step out and boldly get where you want to go in life. When you draw from yourself, through the guiding intuition-based questions of a life coach, your growth sticks!
A life coach does not give you personal advice. He or she will only do so momentarily and when given permission. We, life coaches, are not healers or mental health workers. We help you to use the tools that you already possess from within.
A life coach listens well and asks insightful questions which helps you unlock the door that you may feel is closed. This helps you to cross the threshold and enter the world with hope and clarity and with the ability to not only see where you want to be in life but to get there!
Be careful when hiring a life coach that has no training. Certifications do not make a life coach, however, the process trains the coach on what they should and should not get into in their practice, and to leave deep-rooted internal work healing to mental health professionals.
Thank you, and let me know if you have any questions!
MARY HUMPHREY COACHING 