Institute for Marriage & Relationship
Preservation & Enhancement

You decide what’s best for your situation – interpersonal relationship/marriage coaching or therapy. 

COACHING:

Shifts problems into goals.  It focuses on solutions – not analyzing the past.  It assumes clients are highly functional – meaning the client is healthy, willing and fully capable of goal achievement.  Coaches do not assign a clinical diagnosis – meaning treatment of clinical disorders such as anxiety, depression, addictions, etc. are referred or treated differently.  Clients simply need guidance.  Office or telephone consultations are acceptable.

THERAPY:

Assumes the client needs “healing” – meaning a clinical diagnosis is established.  This is often referred to as a medical or psychiatric model.  Most insurance companies require labeling a client with a clinical diagnosis for reimbursement.  Clients seek understanding and emotional healing – often by focusing on feelings and their past.  The goal’s are often for internal resolution of negative feelings and establishment of new behavior patterns.