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Therapy or Coaching?
20/10/2025
If you've been thinking about getting support — to navigate stress, make a change, or heal something deeper — you might find yourself wondering:
"Do I need therapy or coaching?"
It's a great question, and one that comes up often. The truth is, both therapy and coaching can be powerful paths for growth — they just serve slightly different purposes. Understanding those differences (and where they overlap) can help you choose the support that fits where you are right now.
Therapy: Healing the Past to Create the Present
Therapy is about healing.
It focuses on understanding and transforming the emotional patterns, wounds, and beliefs that may have formed in your past and are still shaping your life today.
If you're dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, burnout, or feeling emotionally stuck, therapy offers a safe space to slow down, explore what's happening, and reconnect with yourself at a deep level.
In integrative body-oriented psychotherapy, the work doesn't just happen through talking — it also includes your felt experience, your body sensations, and the wisdom of your nervous system. Because lasting change happens when both your mind and body are involved in the healing process.
Coaching: Moving Forward With Clarity and Intention
Coaching, on the other hand, is about growth and direction.
It focuses on the present and future — helping you set goals, clarify values, and take aligned action toward what you want to create in your life.
You might turn to coaching when you want to:
- make a life or career change,
- reconnect with your purpose,
- or develop new habits and ways of relating.
Coaching assumes a basic level of emotional stability and self-awareness — it's for when you're ready to move forward, but want guidance, structure, and reflection along the way.
The Integrative Approach: When the Line Isn’t So Clear
The Integrative Approach: When the Line Isn't So Clear
In reality, life doesn't fit neatly into "healing" or "growth." Often, the two are deeply intertwined. You might start therapy to work on anxiety, and discover you're ready to set new goals. Or begin coaching, only to realize old emotional patterns are holding you back.
That's why an integrative approach can be so powerful.
As a psychologist and coach working with body-psychotherapy methods, I draw from both worlds — therapy's depth and coaching's forward momentum — depending on what's most supportive for you in the moment.
That might look like:
This way, your healing naturally supports your growth — and your growth reinforces your healing.
How to Know What You Need Right Now
If you're unsure whether to start with therapy or coaching, try reflecting on these questions:
- Am I generally stable, but feeling stuck or uncertain about my next steps? → Coaching might be a good fit.
- Do I sense that both emotional healing and forward movement are needed? → An integrative approach could meet you right where you are.
The Bottom Line
Both therapy and coaching are valuable — they're simply different doorways to the same room: a fuller, freer version of yourself.
Whether your process begins with healing, growth, or both, what matters most is that you find a space where you can show up as you are — body, mind, and heart included.
Healing and growth aren't separate paths — they're parts of the same journey.
Sometimes, all you need is the right kind of support to help them meet.