Look Inside: Therapy with a Coaching Edge

Therapy with a Coaching Edge:

By Lynn Grodzki (W.W. Norton, May 2018)

Improve client outcomes
Call a client into action
Learn to ask compelling questions that generate “ah-ha” moments
Help clients go beyond a discussion of symptoms to explore topics of core values
Show clients how to make decisions based on both necessity and a vision of a better future

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

Therapy with a Coaching Edge:

Partnership, Action and Possibility in Every Session

Have you been interested in what coaching techniques might have to offer your therapy clients but unsure how to proceed, or curious as to whether a coaching approach is a “fit” for them… or you?

If so, Therapy with a Coaching Edge is the book for you.

Here, 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.

Grodzki presents a set of powerful coaching strategies, learned over time from many coaching experiences, which she adapted and designed specifically for therapy, to provide more reach and range for therapists and counselors.

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.

The book gives new and veteran clinicians the skills to:

Improve client outcomes

Call a client into action

Learn to ask compelling questions that generate “ah-ha” moments

Help clients go beyond a discussion of symptoms to explore topics of core values

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 and then immediately apply the steps in a session. It helps therapist use a model that will energize themselves as practitioners and make therapy faster, easier and often more successful.

Welcome to Therapy with a Coaching Edge.

Ready to look inside?

Therapy with a Coaching Edge

Partnership, Action, and Possibility in Every Session

PART 1: The Foundation

1) Therapy with Something Extra Get better results in therapy by implementing a new model based on a coaching approach.

2) Where Therapy and Coaching Meet Clarify the common ground and obvious differences between therapy and coaching.

3) Who’s Coachable within Therapy? Identify those clients who can benefit from a proactive model.

4) Creating Therapist– Client Collaboration Apply a partnership position to promote behavioral change.

5) Results in Every Session Improve client satisfaction and retention, session by session.

PART 2: Skills for Partnership

6) Skill #1: Ask Effective Questions Expand therapy sessions with more “ah- ha” moments by asking the right question.

7) Skill #2: Be a Strategist with a Twist Help clients resolve big decisions by advancing client- based control.

8) Skill #3: Add Humor and Lightness Encourage the therapeutic alliance by being authentic and flexible.

PART 3: Skills for Action

9) Skill #4: Call a Client into Action Assist client readiness for forward movement.

10) Skill #5: Add Shared Accountability Support clients in accomplishing their desired goals.

11) Skill #6: Deliver a Coaching Edge Practice the art of giving direct, concise feedback to boost motivation.

PART 4: Skills for Possibility

12) Skill #7: Align with Core Values Show clients how to make decisions based on meaning and purpose.

13) Skill #8: Find the Metaphors that Matter Elicit client- driven symbols and stories that strengthen change.

14) Skill #9: Design a Plan for Life Invite clients to define the future they desire.

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

Worksheets

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

1) Therapy with Something Extra
Get better results in therapy by implementing a new model based on a coaching approach.

2) Where Therapy and Coaching Meet
Clarify the common ground and obvious differences between therapy and coaching.

3) Who’s Coachable within Therapy?
Identify those clients who can benefit from a proactive model.

4) Creating Therapist– Client Collaboration
Apply a partnership position to promote behavioral change.

5) Results in Every Session
Improve client satisfaction and retention, session by session.

6) Skill #1: Ask Effective Questions
Expand therapy sessions with more “ah- ha” moments by asking the right question.

7) Skill #2: Be a Strategist with a Twist
Help clients resolve big decisions by advancing client- based control.

8) Skill #3: Add Humor and Lightness
Encourage the therapeutic alliance by being authentic and flexible.

9) Skill #4: Call a Client into Action
Assist client readiness for forward movement.

10) Skill #5: Add Shared Accountability
Support clients in accomplishing their desired goals.

11) Skill #6: Deliver a Coaching Edge
Practice the art of giving direct, concise feedback to boost motivation.

12) Skill #7: Align with Core Values
Show clients how to make decisions based on meaning and purpose.

13) Skill #8: Find the Metaphors that Matter
Elicit client- driven symbols and stories that strengthen change.

14) Skill #9: Design a Plan for Life
Invite clients to define the future they desire.

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