DESCRIPTION:

What will the practice of psychotherapy look like in five, ten, fifteen years? More to the point, how can therapists best position themselves to have the kind of career they want and make a good living doing it? This webcast series brings together some of the field’s leading innovators and business-minded visionaries to examine the range of issues and career possibilities therapists should consider today while charting their course for the future.

• Discover alternatives to the traditional private practice model that better fit the new mental health marketplace.
• Explore how the mental health consumers of today differ from the “patients” of past decades.
• Find out about new career paths that draw on the therapeutic skills you already possess.
• Examine how technology is opening up new possibilities for therapeutic practice.
• Get up to speed about the marketing and business skills 21st century practitioners will need to succeed.

OUTLINE:

Session 5 (Jeff Auerbach): Coaching for Mental Health Professionals

Explore what the emerging professional specialty of coaching may have to offer you by:

• Learning how to distinguish coaching from psychotherapy.
• Looking at the opportunities and career prospects in the various types of coaching: Executive coaching, wellness coaching, and personal coaching, among others.
• Finding out what additional skills and knowledge you need to become an effective coach.
• Examining the characteristics of therapists who’ve been most successful in transitioning to coaching.
• Surveying the best approaches to finding coaching clients and marketing coaching services.

OBJECTIVES:

Learning Objectives - Session 5 (Jeff Auerbach):

• Explain the differences between coaching and psychotherapy.
• Identify the opportunities available in various types of coaching.
• Determine the best approaches to finding coaching clients and marketing coaching services.