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Personal Consultancy: A Model for Integrating Counselling and Coaching
Making the case for an integrated approach to the practices of counselling, psychotherapy and coaching, "Personal Consultancy" provides a coherent and systematic framework for working with clients. Nash Popovic and Debra Jinks use their experience in the area of integrative practice to demonstrate how this wider approach can be a more comprehensive way of helping clients than coaching or counselling on its own.The authors explain how a range of techniques and approaches from various one-to-one practices can be brought together under the framework of Personal Consultancy, creating a method that is systematic, ethical and professional but not limited by any particular theoretical bias or preconceptions. With chapters by guest authors who discuss their perspectives on the approach and its application across various contexts, "Personal Consultancy" demonstrates that it is possible to combine the reparative work normally associated with counselling with the more proactive, goal-oriented approach of coaching. The result is a method that allows clients to have their counselling and their coaching needs met within one relationship and which allows the practitioner more flexibility and freedom than when using a single approach."Personal Consultancy" will be essential reading for practicing coaches and counsellors, especially those already integrating the two approaches or those looking to do so, as well as students and those in training.
254 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2013
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June 25, 2022
A must read for any professional interested in the integration of coaching and counseling!
First, the authors address many of myths surrounding the differences between both professions, including focus on the past vs. future, level of client's mental health needed for coaching, and related.
Second, authors provide a relatively open but pragmatic model for navigating between the different stages of the consultanty process ranging from pure authentic listening (being mode) to active problem-solving (doing mode).
Finally, the ideas presented in the book are in itself cathartic. The authors reduce many of the anxieties that haunt us who are practicing as integrative coaches-counselors.
To be honest, I never really bought into the superficial differences between both practices maintained oftentimes by the accrediting bodies that are incentivezed to delegitimize any attempts to bring both professions into a coherent whole.
After reading this book, I don't feel ashamed anymore for integrating the best of two worlds, not only for the better of my clients' well-being but also my own professional identity.
The only bad thing about the book is that it desperately needs an up-to-date second edition! Things have progressed in the industry since the book has been published and I would love to hear more new voices in the discussion.
First, the authors address many of myths surrounding the differences between both professions, including focus on the past vs. future, level of client's mental health needed for coaching, and related.
Second, authors provide a relatively open but pragmatic model for navigating between the different stages of the consultanty process ranging from pure authentic listening (being mode) to active problem-solving (doing mode).
Finally, the ideas presented in the book are in itself cathartic. The authors reduce many of the anxieties that haunt us who are practicing as integrative coaches-counselors.
To be honest, I never really bought into the superficial differences between both practices maintained oftentimes by the accrediting bodies that are incentivezed to delegitimize any attempts to bring both professions into a coherent whole.
After reading this book, I don't feel ashamed anymore for integrating the best of two worlds, not only for the better of my clients' well-being but also my own professional identity.
The only bad thing about the book is that it desperately needs an up-to-date second edition! Things have progressed in the industry since the book has been published and I would love to hear more new voices in the discussion.
December 30, 2022
Really enjoyed, good mix of case studies and examples alongside theory. Would like to see a whole client journey in there.
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