Throughout The CoachAccountable Perspective can be found the occasional mention of therapy or psychotherapy as an unwelcome presence in the mix.
Is that because I’m anti-therapy? Nah. Here’s the issue:
When elements of therapy make it into coaching, it cheapens coaching. And not because therapy is cheap: we can call it the more expensive, sophisticated, regulated endeavor. It’s because ice cream and sushi are both delicious, but if you put chunks of sushi in perfectly good ice cream you will ruin that ice cream.
As one keenly aware of the awesome power of coaching to produce profound, life-changing results, and do so fast, I am touchy about anything that waters that down. I find it problematic when therapy masquerades under the label of its trendier cousin.
Don’t put sushi in your ice cream.
