When Choose Coaching Over Therapy?

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  • Just like you might work with a physical trainer to build strength, flexibility, and resilience in your body—to move better, feel stronger, and adapt to life’s physical demands—coaching offers the same kind of training, but for your inner life.
  • A life coach helps you strengthen your mindset, emotional agility, and inner clarity, so you can move through change with more confidence and less overwhelm.
  • Coaching isn’t about fixing what’s broken—it’s about becoming aware, tapping into, and enhancing what’s already within you.

When Life Feels Heavy or Unclear

  • Maybe you’re navigating a big change, experiencing grief, self-doubt, anxiety, or stress. You’re not broken—you’re human, and sometimes life just feels heavy.
  • If you're emotionally and mentally stable but feeling stuck, lost, or unsure how to move forward, coaching can help. Rather than focusing on the past or clinical diagnoses, coaching supports you in the here and now—helping you:
    • Reconnect with your inner resources
    • Gain clarity
    • Release and rewire limiting beliefs
    • Build emotional resilience
    • Move forward with confidence and purpose

How Coaching Differs from Therapy

  • Coaching is not a replacement for therapy—especially if you are in crisis, navigating trauma, or managing a mental health diagnosis.
  • Unlike therapy, which often focuses on healing the past, coaching is future-oriented. It’s for people who are ready to:
    • Grow & Evolve
    • Move forward in life
    • Show up more fully in their lives
  • If you're navigating a life transition, challenge or facing inner uncertainty, coaching provides a supportive, forward-moving space to build the inner tools you need to thrive.
  • Think of it like this: therapy helps you heal the past. Coaching helps you create your future.

A Gentle Note

  • Coaching is not a substitute for therapy or mental health treatment.
  • If you’re currently experiencing severe mental health challenges or have been diagnosed with a condition that requires clinical care, it’s important to seek support from a licensed mental health professional.
  • As a coach, my role is to support you through life’s transitions—not to treat or diagnose mental health conditions.

Still Wondering If Coaching Is Right for You?

If you’re unsure whether life coaching is the right step, that’s completely natural.

I invite you to explore, ask questions, and connect.

Book a Free Discovery Call with me to see if we’re a good fit to work together.

Warmly,

Sangita Gupta

Certified Life Coach | NLP Practitioner