Which one is for me?
Each one of these professionals (counselor, coach, and spiritual director) identifies a goal and helps their client finds a path forward. Through a Catholic lens, God is included in each one of these relationships.
Each one has a different set of training and expertise.
Counselors
Goal: Restoration
A counselor’s goal is to get someone back to baseline mental health and functionality. A clinical, diagnostic model with a treatment plan.
Destination: the client arrives at baseline health.
Football analogy: athletic trainer moving a player from a physical malady to a place of health.
Coaches
Goal: Result
A coach’s goal is to move someone from baseline health toward a goal that improves a client’s quality of life, teaches them new skills, and helps them build new habits.
Destination: the client’s skill exceeds the coach’s, or when the goal is met.
Football analogy: niche-expertise coach (kicker, defense, offense, etc.) helping the player achieve excellence in a particular area.
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Spiritual Directors
Goal: Relationship
Helping the directee encounter God in the present moment through their prayer life, spiritual experiences, and inclinations.
Destination: no particular agenda – present to the promptings of where God is working in the directee’s lives.
Football analogy: team chaplain coming alongside members of the team and helping them encounter God where they are.
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