What is Academic Life Coaching?
(And what is it not?)
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Academic life coaching is a collaborative relationship where we (the coach and the student) work together as partners to identify your goals and use your strengths to reach those goals.
Along the way we identify areas of challenge that we can work on together. We work on skills to overcome roadblocks to success such as procrastination, ineffective study techniques, overwhelm and boredom. Those skills can then be utilized to reach other goals, in other areas of your life, and initiate a spiral of success. Because the coaching process takes into account your unique situation, it is uniquely tailored to your life and your goals. |
Is academic life coaching the same as tutoring or therapy?
Coaching is not therapy or tutoring.
Coaches have training unique to the profession and are very careful to observe the ethical boundaries between the professions.
Some, but not all, clients work with a therapist and/or a tutor as well as a coach.
Tutors are subject-specific, whereas academic life coaching spans all subjects and levels. Academic life coaching gives students a set of tools that can be applied to any subject at any level.
Students with any diagnosed learning issues such as ADHD, or those who experience anxiety, can benefit from a "multi-modal" treatment plan that includes more than one of these options.
Coaches have training unique to the profession and are very careful to observe the ethical boundaries between the professions.
Some, but not all, clients work with a therapist and/or a tutor as well as a coach.
Tutors are subject-specific, whereas academic life coaching spans all subjects and levels. Academic life coaching gives students a set of tools that can be applied to any subject at any level.
Students with any diagnosed learning issues such as ADHD, or those who experience anxiety, can benefit from a "multi-modal" treatment plan that includes more than one of these options.