Tips

Therapist to Coach: Seven Success Factors

  1. Be crystal clear what coaching is (vs. therapy)
  2. Develop coaching skills
  3. Examine your business:  where does coaching fit?
  4. Identify a niche.
  5. Resolve your concerns and prepare for transition
  6. Begin to market your coaching practice
  7. Create a personal development plan.

Realities to consider/Questions to ask yourself

  1. You will have to become an entrepreneur to develop a successful coaching practice.
  2. You will need to make a financial investment in coaching
  3. Your ability to take action and your willingness to market yourself will determine your financial success.
  4. Give yourself time to develop your coaching practice before quitting your "day job."
  5. You will need some additional training.
  6. Similar to well-matched tennis, the easiest coaching clients to work with are those who have a lot of talent for you both to work with and leverage.
  7. You will need to be very clear with yourself and your clients about your role as therapist and your role as coach.
Ask yourself if you have the following skills:
  1. ability to listen
  2. gift of reframing
  3. ability to suspend judgment
  4. experience with confidentiality and ethics
  5. ability to seek solutions and think of possibilities
  6. ability to use a computer and communicate via email

Ask yourself if the fear of starting your own business is outweighed by the excitement.  If not, don't start.  More new businesses fail than succeed, and many fears are well-founded.  It will take a great deal of vision, determination, and tenacity if you are to succeed.

Commit to continually improving your public speaking and networking abilities.  Few other means of marketing a service-oriented business are as effective as these.
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