What is the Purpose?

• Mental Wellness Coaching: Supports overall well-being, helps manage stress, improves resilience, and promotes a balanced mental state with a focus on positive mental health and coping strategies.
Mental Wellness Coaching is proactive and preventive. It focuses on strengths, healthy habits, and personal growth through goal-setting.

• Therapy: Reactive and curative, delving into root causes of mental health issues to heal emotional and psychological problems.

What Issues Can Be Explored?

• Mental Wellness Coaching: Addresses stress management, life balance,     emotional well-being, motivation, and fulfillment.

•  Therapy: Covers mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, and more severe psychological challenges.

What Techniques Do You Use?

• Mental Wellness Coaching: I use many modalities, such as motivational interviewing, active listening, goal-setting, clean language, positive psychology, cognitive behavioral coaching, and mindfulness.

• Therapy: Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic therapy, and trauma work are employed to treat clinical conditions.

What is Your Professional Background?

• Mental Wellness Coach: I focus on enhancing mental wellness but do not diagnose or treat disorders. Credentials

 • Therapists: Licensed professionals with advanced degrees in psychology, social work, or counseling, trained to diagnose and treat mental health conditions.

How is Your Practice Regulated?

• Mental Wellness Coaching: Aligned with International Coaching Federation ethical guidelines and confidentiality practices.

 • Therapy: Licensed and regulated strictly to ethical codes and confidentiality laws.

What is the Intentional Outcome?

• Mental Wellness Coaching: Provides a safe space for clients to explore stress management, emotional balance, and mental wellness through lifestyle changes.

 • Therapy: Focuses on healing, recovery, and resolution of mental health issues to improve psychological functioning.

Commitment to Safety- Harm Reduction

Your well-being is my top priority. If your needs exceed my scope, I recommend trusted therapists to ensure you receive the best care.