Frequently asked questions

Choosing who to speak to about your mental well-being can be confusing. So, what’s the difference between a counsellor, a therapist, and a coach?

It can help to simply frame that each discipline can help with your Past (Counselling & Therapy), your Present (Meditation & Mindfulness Coaching) and your Future (Life, Career & Executive Coaching).

‍Counsellor:
‍In counselling, you’re more likely to focus on the short-term ‘here and now’ and find ways to manage your current issues and feelings. Your counsellor will typically assess how you’re feeling in the present moment and how this is affecting your well-being on a day-to-day basis.

Counselling may be more commonly used to treat issues that aren’t necessarily diagnosed mental conditions. These might include things like bereavement and grief counselling, relationship counselling, building coping strategies, and support with other issues such as low self-esteem. These issues may be considered to be related to the general ‘ups and downs’ of life, although this isn’t to say that they are any less significant than formal mental health conditions.

‍Therapist:
‍During therapy, as well as having an awareness of the ‘here and now’, you’re also more likely to explore the ‘back story’ to your problems in order to get to the root cause of these. This will enable you to understand how your past experiences may have influenced the way you’re feeling, challenge the way you respond to these, and move forwards.

Therapy is generally a longer-term process to diagnose and resolve problematic beliefs, behaviours, relationship issues, feelings and sometimes physical responses. e.g. depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This is because therapy is evidence-based and formulation-driven. The idea behind therapy is to focus on past traumas and issues to change self-destructive habits, repair and improve relationships and work through painful feelings. In this sense, therapy focuses on the past and on introspection and analysis, with the hope of resolving past issues and creating a happier, more stable future.

Therapists may have specialised in using a specific therapeutic technique (e.g. CBT) and therefore, may label themselves specifically as a cognitive behavioural therapist, for example.

It’s important to note that the term ‘counselling’ is often used as a general description for talking therapies, but counselling itself is a specific talking therapy.

‍Coaching:
‍Coaching is action orientated, whereas counselling is coping-orientated. Coaches want to help you recognise what you think vs. counsellors also want to help you realise how you feel. In coaching, a client works with a coach to clarify goals and identify obstacles and problematic behaviours in order to create action plans to achieve desired results.

The main way that a life coach vs. counsellor/therapist works is that the life coach takes the client’s current starting point as an acceptable neutral ground and is more action-based from that point onward. A life coach enables the person receiving treatment to take control of their life and take action to steer it toward their goals. Coaches who focus on clients’ personal lives are often known as life coaches. But there are also many other specialists offering coaching for women returners, unpaid carers, couples, health challenges, mental health problems and life transitions and bereavement, to name but a few.

‍Executive/Leadership Coaching:
‍Executive or leadership coaches specifically have experience of working in corporate environments. They specialise in creating strategies to help empower the person with mental tools and human skills to become a better manager, deal with complex situations in a work environment, improve performance at work, and trouble-shooting or resolve high levels of stress (often known as executive/business coaching).

This is completely up to you! We suggest you choose the practitioner whose bio resonates with you the most. You can view all of our MYNDUP practitioner bio’s here. If you are still unsure who to choose, or want to discuss anything about any of our practitioners, please reach out to us at hello@myndup.com. We’d be delighted to help!

A life coach is someone who aids the improvement of day-to-day lives by encouraging you to find more meaning, develop better relationships, find a career you love and build confidence in every area of your life. They do this by guiding you into developing your goals, identifying obstacles standing in your way and defining strategies and tools that will enable you to achieve your goals and overcome hurdles.

‍Here is our essential guide to the different types of coaching

It’s one thing to admit that we’re overwhelmed, distressed or just needing guidance, and direction, in an area of our lives. But it’s another to have to decide which therapy approach or counsellor is best suited to our concerns, when faced with so many.

Seeking the right therapist, or type of therapy, can, therefore, seem like an overwhelming and daunting task in itself and you’ll often find there are a number of different approaches available, depending on your individual situation.

‍See our essential guide to therapy here.

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