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Summary: Therapists: Want to Find Out About Coaching?
Review: I especially like the Try It! sections throughout the chapters. This book has a clear, practical approach. The four sections are: coaching, the difference between therapy and coaching, professional transitional tools, and coaching specialties. Author Pat Williams is well known and respected in the field, as the founder of The Institute for Life Coaching, a training program designed for mental health practitioners who want to add or transition to coaching.
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Summary: Calling All Therapists!
Review: If you are a therapist looking to add life-coaching to your portfolio, this is the book for you! Patrick Williams and Deborah Davis provide a complete overview of how the coaching profession developed and is distinguishing itself. They also take the reader through a series of personal coaching techniques and tools that can be utilized right away, and do a great job of explaining how these are distinct from, yet often complimentary with, existing therapeutic models. Finally, the resource section is a goldmine for those who wish to pursue the coaching profession for themsleves.
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Summary: Therapist as Life Coach: Transforming Your Pratice
Review: Pat Williams and Deborah Davis have crafted an excellent "How To" guide for therapists and others who want to enliven their lives and their practices. What I like best about this book is that it does not assume that the reader has no backgrond or skill but rather acknowledges the readers skills and helps them to see how they fit into the world of Life Coaching. The book is very well written, well thought out and well structured. Reading it is a great way for a prospective coach to find out about the field and to gain insight as to whether or not it is a fit for them. It is also a wonderful review and refresher for those of us already coaching because it covers the basics in such an interseting and informative manner.I highly recomend it.
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Summary: How can you resist the opportunity for success?
Review: Therapist as Life Coach is a book with a triple benefit. This book introduces the reader to the concept of Life Coaching, explains how to become a Life Coach and gives the reader the tools with which to improve his or her life as well as the lives of the clients with whom they are already working. There is nothing in this book that can't be implemented successfully TODAY. Whether you are just curious about why everyone is talking about Life Coaching, think you would like to add coaching to an already existing psychotherapy practice or even if you want to transition out of therapy into coaching, this books tells you how. Non-therapists will be interested in the easy-to-follow and extremely helpful exercises. The chapter on self-care will be of interest to everyone. Information regarding the differences and similarities between Life Coaching and Therapy are clear, concise and extremely helpful. Whether you are a therapist who is trying to break free of managed care and insurance-based payment, feel like you would like to offer more for your clients, or are just curious about coaching, this book is for you. How can you resist the idea of improving your life and career and helping others to do the same?
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Summary: You Have to Read This Book!
Review: There are 3 kinds of people who must read this book:
1. Therapists who are looking to add professional coaching to their list of services or who are making a transition away from traditional therapy into life coaching.
2. Professional Coaches who specialize or want to specialize in life coaching.
3. Established Life Coaches.There is something for everyone in this book, but particularly for these 3 groups of people there is NO BETTER BOOK AVAILABLE to help you make this transition in the fastest and most efficient way possible. Pat Williams is one of America's Top Professional Coaches. In addition to his nationally recognized coach training program (lifecoachtraining.com), he is also on the board of the International Coach Federation (coachfederation.org), one of the top speakers in the field, and on the cutting-edge of standardizing and professionalizing the field of coaching. I can't recommend this book high enough. I firmly believe this book should be on the bookshelf of every professional life coach.
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Summary: You Have to Read This Book!
Review: There are 3 kinds of people who must read this book:
1. Therapists who are looking to add professional coaching to their list of services or who are making a transition away from traditional therapy into life coaching.
2. Professional Coaches who specialize or want to specialize in life coaching.
3. Established Life Coaches. There is something for everyone in this book, but particularly for these 3 groups of people there is NO BETTER BOOK AVAILABLE to help you make this transition in the fastest and most efficient way possible. Pat Williams is one of America's Top Professional Coaches. In addition to his nationally recognized coach training program (lifecoachtraining.com), he is also on the board of the International Coach Federation (coachfederation.org), one of the top speakers in the field, and on the cutting-edge of standardizing and professionalizing the field of coaching. I can't recommend this book high enough. I firmly believe this book should be on the bookshelf of every professional life coach.
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Summary: Helping "Helping Professionals" Reclaim Their Passion
Review: This a an extraordinary book that belongs on the shelves (and in the heart) of every therapist AND every coach. Frankly, I've heard Pat Williams speak, so I fully expected to like the book, but even so, I was surprised by just how good, how inspiring, practical and helpful it is. Williams and Davis do a great service for mental health workers, counselors, social workers and Psychologists by affirming the power of what "we" do, and by expanding the boundaries within which we operate. At the same time, they also provide a great reminder for coaches of what WE do, how we do it, and how powerful it is! The book is elegantly laid-out, easy to follow and powerfully practical. The heart of the message is that caring for and WITH people truly matters. Whether we are labeled as "mental health practitioners" or "spiritual ministers" or coaches, we all use highly sophisticated skills, some that are ancient and timeless, and others that are new and scientifically "proven," to help people transform their lives. The book is directly aimed at "helping professionals." The message is that what mental health professionals do is IMPORTANT, even if insurance companies and (at times) our culture fails to appreciate it. Williams and Davis present practical, do-able paths that allow professionals to reclaim their independence and do the work they love and are trained to do well. The exciting part of the book for me, as a Psychologist who has already transitioned into coaching, was the delightful, passionate reminder of what coaches actually DO! While this is an introduction or over-view of coaching, I found the reminders, the affirmations, and the passion extremely helpful. As "people experts" it is good to be reminded of how much we know, how skilled we are, how many "tools" we have in our toolbox! I found the book easily readable, very well-thought-out, and helpful. I highly recommend it for (1) anyone considering entering the field of coaching, (2) mental health professionals who are tired or restless and looking for a new challenge, and (3) for coaches who want a helpful survey of the skills and strengths we bring to our work. All three groups will get a tremendous lift and find it a helpful read.
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Summary: You Don't Have to be a Therapist to Benefit from this Book.
Review: This book goes far beyond helping therapists transition into life coaching. It gives the reader a very clear and exciting introduction to this new and upcoming field. It was my first real introduction to coaching, yet after training in the field and went back and read it again and got even more out of it.
The book explains the difference between coaching and therapy, and also helps the reader decide which is best for her/him. Exercises are provided to help the reader's decision making. The way the book is put together the authors quite effectively coach the reader toward the possibilities and the joys of coaching. They also spend a good number of pages on how to start a coaching business. I loved it. As an aspiring life-coach I say "thank you."
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Summary: You Don't Have to be a Therapist to Benefit from this Book.
Review: This book goes far beyond helping therapists transition into life coaching. It gives the reader a very clear and exciting introduction to this new and upcoming field. It was my first real introduction to coaching, yet after training in the field and went back and read it again and got even more out of it.
The book explains the difference between coaching and therapy, and also helps the reader decide which is best for her/him. Exercises are provided to help the reader's decision making. The way the book is put together the authors quite effectively coach the reader toward the possibilities and the joys of coaching. They also spend a good number of pages on how to start a coaching business. I loved it. As an aspiring life-coach I say "thank you."
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Summary: Therapist as Life Coach
Review: This is an excellent book for those of us who have been practicing therapists and have a desire to do what we actually intended when we chose this profession in the first place. The book is well written. It provides a comprehensive discussion of the differences between coaching and psychotherapy or counseling. After defining what this new and exciting field is all about, the authors have given us newcomers to the field a wonderful manual to assist us in establishing a coaching practice. You couldn't really ask for more... unless you want even more of a headstart; you might enroll in Pat's Life Coach Training course, a 30 hour course which supplements the book. A complimentary introductory session is available by going to the Institute web site,...Life coaching is a natural evolution from traditional therapy practices. Moving into this field has transformed my life. Thank you Pat and Deborah!
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