Finding Your Way
Join Steve Bisson, LMHC as he unravels the complexities of therapy and counseling. Engage in straightforward dialogues, enriched with insights from special guests sharing a like-minded perspective. Each episode presents valuable, easy-to-digest information designed to help you perceive therapy, and those who partake in it, in a grounding, relatable manner.
This podcast is slowly transforming to discuss first responders, trauma, grief, and coaching.
Finding Your Way
E.189 Unlocking Growth: The Transformative Power of Coaching
This episode delves into the critical distinctions between coaching and therapy, emphasizing coaching's role in fostering personal growth for professionals. Listeners gain insights on decision-making, overcoming isolation in leadership roles, and the importance of self-care through the coaching process.
• Distinction between therapy and coaching is clarified
• Emphasis on the forward-focused nature of coaching
• Addressing decision fatigue and its impact on leadership
• Importance of self-care for high-pressure professionals
• Bi-weekly coaching sessions enhance accountability and reflection
• Strategies for maintaining personal and organizational wellness
• Introduction of text coaching as an effective support tool
• Transparent pricing structure for coaching and therapy options
• Encouragement to explore the benefits of integrating coaching into daily routines
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Hi and welcome to Finding your Way Through Therapy. A proud member of the PsychCraft Network, the goal of this podcast is to demystify therapy, what can happen in therapy and the wide array of conversations you can have in and about therapy Through personal experiences. Guests will talk about therapy, their experiences with it and how psychology and therapy are present in many places in their lives, with lots of authenticity and a touch of humor. Here is your host, steve Bisson.
Speaker 2:Alors, le studio a déjà changé. The studio has already changed and I put in a little bit of decoration, so I hope you enjoy it, but we're still in progress here. Welcome to Finding your Way. This is episode 189. We're going to talk about coaching, but let's review just quickly episode 188 with Krista Gregg. We talked about crime scene stress. That comes from that as well as the grief process. She has a great website and she has a great mission that she's working on. So please go ahead and go listen to that episode if you haven't yet.
Speaker 2:But episode 189 is about something I've done for a while but I really haven't talked about it, so I wanted to bring it up here. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go into it directly, because some of you may know I'm actually. I do a lot of coaching, and what I mean by a lot of coaching? Not as much as I wish, obviously, and most of you know my passion for first responders and grief and trauma and the work that I do in those particular realms, but I don't get to talk a lot about coaching. I go back to you know, among people, stephanie Simpson, a regular in the show we talk about. She talks about coaching and I've been doing coaching with people who are I hate those names the C-suite people and people who are professionals, have been in the field for a long time, whether it's my field or other fields, and we talk about coaching and what we.
Speaker 2:This is not therapy. I know let's talk about a little difference between therapy and coaching. Therapy is sometimes going backwards, talking about what needs to be done. We do cognitive behavioral therapy that's obviously my favorite, but I do EMDR. That's treatment. We do group processing it's just treatment. But with coaching, it's more of the here and now, as well as how we're going to move forward. It's not about reviewing the past and it's really concentrating on the strengths that a person has, what they have to develop in order to succeed, and usually related to business. Sometimes it's personal growth, obviously, but it's not therapy, as in we're treating trauma or we're treating things like that. So I want to make sure that you knew the difference, and I certainly know the difference, so I want to talk about that.
Speaker 2:What I really find, first of all, with people who are more need coaching are actually not much different than people in therapy, except they're more forward leaning, and I think that that's exactly what I just explained. So coaching usually is not as intense in the sense that I usually meet people every other week for coaching. I don't typically meet people every week, and the reason why is that we're trying to implement things, so why do I do every other week? I know some coaching is every week and I respect that, and some people do group for that, and that's I respect that too. I don't do group and I don't do every week. The reason why I do every other week is because I'm going to give you goals and things that you got to work on in order to get to the second week and if we didn't, we look at those barriers as to what was blocking you, whether it's a thought process, whether it's being too busy and things like that because when people are in those type of settings, they always have more and more to do and they don't find time for themselves. So we talk a little bit about self-care because we get tired of being in the situation where we make a lot of the decision I think they call that decision fatigue, right and so when they get to do things for themselves, they're so tired they're not willing to do even decisions for themselves and work on stuff, so that's part of what I do.
Speaker 2:Being a leader is a little bit isolating, and what I mean by that is this a CEO has to make the hard decisions for the whole company. I always liken it to a lot of people who work in the first responder field. You got to make a quick decision to make the situation better, at least contain it if you can, and sometimes that's very isolating, very difficult, and there's a lot of pressure, and the pressure that is for coaching is that all the decisions fall on you and you don't know what to do next, and sometimes the decision has to do nothing with a job, but looking for a job or what you want to do. When do you want to retire? What are your goals for the next five years? Three years depending on retirement, and you know I do talk a little bit about finances, but I really talk about what the thought process that's blocked. In order to move forward, you start forgetting about yourself and your family and friends.
Speaker 2:One of the things that I hear a lot about from my interventions every other week to not only get people to go, but they're also enthused. If you meet someone every week in a coaching set. I found that people lack that enthusiasm for lack of a better word. I don't think that they're not enthusiastic, but they have a lot of stuff going on. They're looking for coaching, they're looking for help. So we try to think about what performances they're looking for, what they're looking to do in general for themselves and how stress makes it hard for their decision-making, as well as how it impacts their family and how is blocking you from moving forward. And if it's because you don't want to hurt people's feelings, we talk about that and I don't give the standard.
Speaker 2:We talk about how making hard decisions are just that hard making hard decisions. But why is it hard? What's the struggles? Have you faced this before? So we talk a lot about that and I think it's important to discuss also how to manage it on an organizational level, because sometimes you won't get along with the people above you, and if you're above everyone, basically you may not get along with other people in your decision. Realm right, maybe the CEO doesn't get along with the CFO or the CMO or stuff like that. So you got to work on those connections and how to make it healthy. I think that what happens is people set themselves up for certain ways to do things and what we bring back is hey, how can we make a decisions together versus just one person making that decision? If you don't mind, I'm just going to take a quick break.
Speaker 2:I don't know, you know, I think that I don't know if you know about Magic Mind. Magic Mind is something that I started taking about I don't know a month ago, a month and a half ago, and I got to tell you that every stuff what I love about Magic Mind is stay awake. For those of you who they still love my coffee, right, much that coffee a day yes, I know it's excessive this has really really reduced the number of coffee that I take and diminished the coffee. Not that coffee is necessarily bad, but really working on it. And this is an experience Like. I'll show you what I was afraid of and I don't know about you guys.
Speaker 2:But I look at this and they go green Ooh, it turns me off for some reason. But this is like sweet it doesn't go in. They think it has a shot and the best thing you can do is put it in the fridge. It's not as good when it's not in the fridge. This is really good when you put it in the fridge. It really cools you down and makes me feel a little more awake, and I think that that's what's important to me is the being able to have this experience without the caffeine, so I really like that. The other thing, too, is I like the product so much. I got some sleep stuff. I haven't tried it yet, just excited. I got it today, so I'm looking forward to trying it. But I'm sorry for deviating here, just wanted to share something.
Speaker 2:Magic mind Great product. Go online. I think they're all available on Amazon Go check it out. Really good. It's just my honest opinion. You know how I work and I actually offered it to other people I know both friends and clients I'm and it's actually also helpful for not having more coffee every day. So, anyway, magicmind great product.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about prices, what I do. So I really help people. I've helped people in the business world, I've helped people in the banking world, I've helped people in the nursing world. I've even helped people in the nonprofit world and I do coaching with all of them and my thing, the experience that I've had, is that they all need it in order to take care of themselves, take care of their family. So how do. I do that whole, take care of my clients to make sure that they do it for themselves.
Speaker 2:So the first thing I do is there's text. So with text usually I call it text coaching it's twice a week I'm going to send you prompts for you to work on, prompts as easy as what have you done today to take care of yourself, what is your priority in the next couple of weeks? What are you neglecting and what should you be working on for you, not for the business that you're working for, stuff like that. And I'm just giving you you know I guess I should say spoiler, right? I know that text coaching really works and I really like that. So I really want to be able to choose to do text coaching with you so that you can move forward, and that's $175 a month. You get two prompts a week and you got to work on it.
Speaker 2:Now, if you want to do the therapy, you do therapy with me. It's two sessions every month, 45 minutes each and the total for that is $400. And that's really helpful to work on things. We move forward really quickly and I think that a lot of individuals have really enjoyed moving forward with that as far as a package. If you want the text, coaching as well as the therapy. Instead of what that would be a total of what? $575, it's a total of $500.
Speaker 2:So you know, I really think coaching can be helpful. It really manages stress, it moves forward. We do a lot of education, too, as to why some things are harder for others, and I really would love for anyone who wants to contact me. There's a direct message button on my podcast If you go there. If not, go to my website, wwwsteve-bissoncom, and if not, go to my website, wwwsteve-bissoncom, and if not, you just go email me. That's available, stevebissonlmhc at gmailcom. You can do any of those things. Really helpful for me. If you want to tell me what you thought about this episode and hopefully we're able to touch base, I really think that I can benefit a whole lot of people who ask the question and what is it, what it's not, maybe experimenting with what you want and maybe seeing also just want to make sure to tell you that I'm open to conversation on that exchange. Well, this is it for episode 189. I hope you enjoyed it. The next episode will be with Tina and I'm hoping that you join me then.
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