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Marriage Coaching vs Marriage Counseling?
Marriage Coaching
This process is more relational and personalized. Marriage Coaches often rely on years of personal experience and formal education in the subject. Coaching is personal in regards to flexibility in meeting times; the coach is more focused on you and your spouse’s individual relationship. Instead of focusing on a specific problem or issue, coaching educate, equip, direct and provide tools to successfully reach dreams and goals in marriage in the future.
Marriage Counseling
This process is often more formal, more intensive and clinical. Counseling occurs in a formal office and has a regular meeting schedule. It is often seen as a more extreme treatment to a marriage because it deals with mending relationships after an event or occurrence (although coaching can do that as well). Because counselors have clinical license, they are able to treat problems with mental health and provide clinical solutions to the problems at hand.
Both marital coaching and counseling are valuable resources in a time of need in a relationship. It comes down to where you believe you and your spouse fit best. Some couples feel the need to get professional help with a full-time clinically licensed counselor and others like the personalization and more laid back process of coaching.
What does marriage coaching look like?
Marriage Coaching creates a partnership between the coaches and the couples they coach.
Coaches are experts on the process; couples are experts on their relationship and ultimately have the answers
-Number of Sessions: 8-10 sessions
-Session Length: 1-1.5 hours, varies according to the couple