Therapy with a Coaching Edge: Partnership, Action, and Possibility in Every Session
Bringing “coaching skills” to a therapy practice and clients.

In Therapy with a Coaching Edge, professional practice guru Lynn Grodzki offers a new, paradigm-changing therapy model—adding the leverage and action of a coaching approach to the wisdom and goals of psychotherapy.

This book presents a set of powerful coaching strategies that have been adapted and designed specifically for therapy—to provide more reach and range for therapists and counselors while not requiring a wholesale abandonment of therapeutic principles. Using this model, therapists at all levels of experience can promote behavioral change without insisting on homework or rigid protocols. Clients can spot results in each and every therapy session. Resistance to treatment often softens and client retention improves. 

Grodzki gives new and veteran clinicians the skills to not only improve client outcomes, but also energize themselves as practitioners. Therapists feel empowered as they learn to ask compelling questions that generate "ah-ha" moments. They help clients go beyond a discussion of symptoms to explore topics of core values. They show clients how to make decisions based on both necessity and a vision of a better future.

The model provides readers with just-in-time learning, to identify a skill when it is needed an then immediately apply the steps in a session. Grodzki, an expert psychotherapist and master certified coach, has proven herself to be a trusted voice for therapists through her writing and workshops; she makes the steps to using a coaching approach understandable by offering lively case examples, "your turn" exercises, and sample scripts to give her readers the confidence and context to move forward.

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Therapy with a Coaching Edge: Partnership, Action, and Possibility in Every Session
Bringing “coaching skills” to a therapy practice and clients.

In Therapy with a Coaching Edge, professional practice guru Lynn Grodzki offers a new, paradigm-changing therapy model—adding the leverage and action of a coaching approach to the wisdom and goals of psychotherapy.

This book presents a set of powerful coaching strategies that have been adapted and designed specifically for therapy—to provide more reach and range for therapists and counselors while not requiring a wholesale abandonment of therapeutic principles. Using this model, therapists at all levels of experience can promote behavioral change without insisting on homework or rigid protocols. Clients can spot results in each and every therapy session. Resistance to treatment often softens and client retention improves. 

Grodzki gives new and veteran clinicians the skills to not only improve client outcomes, but also energize themselves as practitioners. Therapists feel empowered as they learn to ask compelling questions that generate "ah-ha" moments. They help clients go beyond a discussion of symptoms to explore topics of core values. They show clients how to make decisions based on both necessity and a vision of a better future.

The model provides readers with just-in-time learning, to identify a skill when it is needed an then immediately apply the steps in a session. Grodzki, an expert psychotherapist and master certified coach, has proven herself to be a trusted voice for therapists through her writing and workshops; she makes the steps to using a coaching approach understandable by offering lively case examples, "your turn" exercises, and sample scripts to give her readers the confidence and context to move forward.

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Therapy with a Coaching Edge: Partnership, Action, and Possibility in Every Session

Therapy with a Coaching Edge: Partnership, Action, and Possibility in Every Session

by Lynn Grodzki
Therapy with a Coaching Edge: Partnership, Action, and Possibility in Every Session

Therapy with a Coaching Edge: Partnership, Action, and Possibility in Every Session

by Lynn Grodzki

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Overview

Bringing “coaching skills” to a therapy practice and clients.

In Therapy with a Coaching Edge, professional practice guru Lynn Grodzki offers a new, paradigm-changing therapy model—adding the leverage and action of a coaching approach to the wisdom and goals of psychotherapy.

This book presents a set of powerful coaching strategies that have been adapted and designed specifically for therapy—to provide more reach and range for therapists and counselors while not requiring a wholesale abandonment of therapeutic principles. Using this model, therapists at all levels of experience can promote behavioral change without insisting on homework or rigid protocols. Clients can spot results in each and every therapy session. Resistance to treatment often softens and client retention improves. 

Grodzki gives new and veteran clinicians the skills to not only improve client outcomes, but also energize themselves as practitioners. Therapists feel empowered as they learn to ask compelling questions that generate "ah-ha" moments. They help clients go beyond a discussion of symptoms to explore topics of core values. They show clients how to make decisions based on both necessity and a vision of a better future.

The model provides readers with just-in-time learning, to identify a skill when it is needed an then immediately apply the steps in a session. Grodzki, an expert psychotherapist and master certified coach, has proven herself to be a trusted voice for therapists through her writing and workshops; she makes the steps to using a coaching approach understandable by offering lively case examples, "your turn" exercises, and sample scripts to give her readers the confidence and context to move forward.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393712476
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 05/22/2018
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 430,508
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC, is a psychotherapist in full-time private practice, a former business executive, and one of the leading business coaches in the US for small business owners. She specializes in working with change-agents: therapists, coaches, healers, and other service-oriented consultants who help others make change in their lives.

Through her workshops and writing, she has become a pioneer in the field of practice-building, helping non-business-oriented professionals develop their private practices. With Lynn’s guidance, thousands of professionals now operate small businesses that offer them a high degree of integrity as well as enhanced financial success. Lynn lives and works in Silver Spring, Maryland and can be reached by email at: lynn@privatepracticesuccess.com.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Part 1 Foundation

1 Therapy with Something Extra 3

Get better results in therapy by implementing a new model based on a coaching approach.

2 Where Therapy and Coaching Meet 13

Clarify the common ground and obvious differences between therapy and coaching.

3 Who's Coachable within Therapy? 29

Identify those clients who can benefit from a proactive model.

4 Creating Therapist-Client Collaboration 45

Apply a partnership position to promote behavioral change.

5 Results in Every Session 63

Improve client satisfaction and retention, session by session.

Part 2 Skills for Partnership 81

6 Skill #1: Ask Effective Questions 81

Expand therapy sessions with mare "ah-ha" moments by asking the right question.

7 Skill #2: Be a Strategist with a Twist 95

Help clients resolve big decisions by advancing client-based control.

8 Skill #3: Add Humor and Lightness 107

Encourage the therapeutic alliance by being authentic and flexible.

Part 3 Skills for Action

9 Skill #4: Call a Client into Action 119

Assist client readiness for forward movement.

10 Skill #5: Add Shared Accountability 133

Support clients in accomplishing their desired goals.

11 Skill #6: Deliver a Coaching Edge 144

Practice the art of giving direct, concise feedback to boost motivation.

Part 4 Skills for Possibility

12 Skill #7: Align with Core Values 161

Show clients how to make decisions based on meaning and purpose.

13 Skill #8: Find the Metaphors that Matter 175

Elicit client-driven symbols and stories that strengthen change.

14 Skill #9: Design a Plan for Life 189

Invite clients to define the future they desire.

Addendum

The Best Blend

How to integrate Therapy with a Coaching Edge with existing methods of therapy and counseling.

Worksheets 219

A quick review of checklists, exercises, and action steps for easier application

Guidepost for Client Suitability

Strategies for Collaboration

The "Getting to Yes" Session Plan

List of Effective Questions

Stages of Strategic Partnership

Therapeutic Alliance

Client Readiness

How to Lend a (Limited) Hand

Steps to a Coaching Edge

List of Core Values

Client-Based Metaphors

The Five-Year Life Plan

Index 253

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