Wade Botkin, MA, Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern (FL Lic.#IMH4818)
Life Coaching
Life coaching* is a modality of counseling practice that focuses on identifying what you want, and making it happen! A coach helps you create solutions that empower and inspire you. A coach helps you take intelligent action in the present so you can move into your desired future more easily and enjoyably. You can target any goal: career acceleration, completing a degree, losing weight, mastering a skill, increasing physical fitness, enhancing relationships, creating a lifestyle with more freedom and fun, and more. What goal would you go for if you where confident in reaching it? “Hmmm, I would love to ____.” What if it could be easier than others have told you? Click here to contact Wade.
*Life coaching is not for clients in emotional distress – that’s the domain of counseling. Clinical depression, anxiety, mood disorders, OCD, eating disorders, phobias, and other similar conditions must first be addressed in mental health counseling. As progress and healing occurs, life coaching can later be a way for clients to engage with their world on new terms and with new results.
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Over the years many schools of therapy have emerged, and all have strengths and weaknesses. No one approach is “the right way,” even though some ardent psychological gurus would disagree. What works or creates healthy change for you is “your right way.” The overall goal in therapy is to empower you so that you can take the experience of therapy out into the world, and continue to use that experience to create a satisfying life. Integrated Counseling means that while I offer Cognitive-Behavioral therapy, professionally considered the gold standard in counseling, I can also offer other approaches. These include Adlerian, Psychodynamic, Existential, Rogerian, Reality, Gestalt, Feminist, Solution Focused, Family Systems, Structural, Communication, and Strategic therapy. The last four schools of therapy are applications of Systems Theory, the “quantum physics” of counseling theories. My clients find that they benefit from an integration of these approaches, and therefore receive a holistic form of therapy that is driven by their needs instead of a “one size fits all” approach.