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.
