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.  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellediederich/

• 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