Relationship Coaching
This will help you understand what relationship coaching is, how it differs from couples’ therapy, and whether a relationship coach can save someone’s marriage.
What is relationship coaching?
Relationship coaching helps people find more fulfillment in their personal relationships. A relationship coach can help you understand your current partnership, set relationship goals, thrive inside your marriage, grieve a lost loved-one, or take your long-term romance to the next level.
Relationship coaches typically have experience and training in various relationship dynamics, from romantic relationships to family relations and friendships.
It is not necessary to work with both partners in a relationship. Coaching helps clients let go of their own painful thoughts, and create their own relationship vision. This means clients are able to enjoy a satisfying relationship even without their partner’s participation in the coaching process.
Relationship coaches also work with singles who have difficulty knowing what they need or want in a relationship or have a history of troubled relationships, or they just want to find a deeper connection with someone.
Some relationship coaching is best to meet with both partners, and teach communication, conflict resolution, and other coaching tools meant for couples.
A relationship coach can help you quickly uncover the essence of what you want out of a partnership, guide you around painful issues, and encourage you to face your fears and discover your true desires.
Currently, counseling focuses on moving people from a state of dysfunction to one of being functional. Coaching is limited and that more serious, deeper issues may need therapy.
Is relationship coaching the same as “couples therapy”?
Relationship coaching is not “couples therapy.”
If you’re having relationship troubles, a coach might help you clear up your thinking, get some perspective, or set inspiring new goals.
Likewise, if there are many unhealed childhood wounds, a coach will likely refer you to a therapist who specializes in working with past trauma.
Relationship coaching can help you find peace with where you are now.
Can a relationship coach save my marriage?
Relationship coaching clarifies relationship issues—separating what we can control with what we cannot. It brings the bright light of awareness into the hidden corners of resentment, fear and avoidance. It might help sort out some underlying issues, but it doesn’t claim to “save” marriages.
Even if only one spouse decides to hire a coach, when he or she lets go of mental suffering, the burden on the marriage could also be lightened.
Marriages often benefit from coaching, but each marriage has its’ own unique set of difficulties, so it is impossible to say whether or not a marriage will grow stronger through the process of coaching.
How do I choose a relationship coach?
Contrary to what many clients expect, geographic proximity is not always important when looking for a coach. Many relationship coaches work over the phone, via email and Skype, which allows for greater flexibility for both coach and client. It also makes the pool of prospective coaches much larger. You can often hire a coach who lives in Miami as easily as one who lives in San Francisco.
Most relationship coaches offer a free introductory session, which allows you to chat with several coaches before choosing the best fit for you. When looking for a relationship coach, you might seek out someone you can relate to, who you enjoy talking to, and who has experience or training in your particular concerns.
How much does relationship coaching cost?
The cost for an hour of relationship coaching with Luxury Matchmaking Services is $197 by the hour. However you can ask about our monthly retainer, were you pay a fee and we are available to you for that entire month.
What’s the difference between a relationship coach, marriage coach, dating coach, love coach, or family coach?
Each of these coaches has a specialization in the area of relationships, marriage, dating, love or family. There is some overlap between these coaching niches, just as there is overlap in our lives between love and marriage, and between dating and relationships.
If you’re not married, but want to be, you might call a dating coach (and save the marriage coach’s number for later.) If you’re fighting endlessly with your sister, you might call a family coach or a relationship coach– but pass on the love coach, who likely specializes in romantic relationships.
Every coach is different, but most can help you in several areas of your life. In general, a relationship coach can help with any kind of relationship; a marriage coach helps married people, a dating coach helps singles, a love coach helps people with their romantic lives, and a family coach helps sort out family issues.
Can a relationship coach help me keep my family together?
Relationship coaches help families get around painful issues, but it doesn’t promise to “keep families together.” Coaching brings a family’s problems out into the light, where they can be considered openly. For example, it might help individuals to see what part they play in the family dynamic-what is their business, and what is somebody else’s business.
Even if only one family member decides to hire a coach, the relationships between members often improve as the old painful feelings are addressed.
Families do benefit from coaching, but a family is a unique set of people, each of who has their own concerns. Some families might grow closer through the process of coaching, and others might not.