Do I Need a Coach or a Therapist?

It’s easy to feel confused about where to turn when you’re doing the work to grow. Therapy and coaching can look similar from the outside—both offer support, reflection, and transformation. But what they aim to do, and how they get you there, is different.

Therapy is essential when you’re healing from trauma, navigating mental health struggles, or trying to make sense of the past. It creates safety and space to untangle the deeper roots of your pain. It often focuses on what’s happened to you—your childhood, your wounds, your history—and helps you process those experiences.

Coaching meets you in a different place. It’s not about fixing what’s broken—it’s about building something new. If you’ve done therapy, know your story inside and out, and still feel stuck… that’s where coaching can shift the game. Especially if you keep hearing the same internal loops or watching the same patterns play out in your relationships, work, or sense of purpose. Insight alone isn’t always enough. Coaching adds motion.

My approach to coaching blends Jungian depth work with embodiment and action. It’s not about forcing change or bypassing emotion—it’s about walking forward with clarity. We look at who you’ve been, how you’re wired, and what your life is trying to become. Together we tap into your deeper intelligence—mental, emotional, physical—and use it to reshape how you move through the world.

So if therapy has helped you understand your pain but not transform it… if you feel like you’re ready to move beyond the story and into the life you want to live… coaching might be the next right step.