A Relationship Coach Works Very Successfully Helping Relationship Problems and Relationship Problem Advice

Coaching and Relationships?

Coaches often work with relationship problems. (I have a personal slant here.) I would not want to work with a life coach getting relationship help if that coach didn’t have successful relationships herself – and I’d want to know something about her relationships.

How can someone teach or coach me about healthy relationships if she has no real experience herself? She may have taken many courses but unless she can examine a successful relationship from the ‘inside out’, how can she work with me and understand what my situation needs in order to help me right it?

If I were looking for a life or relationship coach because I had relationship problems now or in the past, I’d be looking for the following in a relationship coach:

  1. I’d ask the coach about their personal experience in relationships.
  2. What kinds of issues the coach has overcome in helping relationships – theirs and others – and what kinds of tools might be offered.
  3. I’d want to know if it was possible to have the coach sometimes speak to me and my partner either together or separately.
  4. I’d ask the coach’s definition of building trust in relationships and her definition of healthy relationships.

November 30, 2009 | Tags: , | trackback

Category: life coaching

2 Comments

  1. Angela November 30, 2009 6:16 pm

    I agree with what you have to say. I give relationship advice, using my past experience and people around me. I agree about the courses, there are too many people out there with courses and certificates, but no life experience in relationships. I had to kiss many many frogs before I found my prince. I had a lot of lessons to learn in the past. Now I am very happily married. That’s the experience I use.

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  2. Jesse December 9, 2009 5:11 pm

    I am not sure I agree with what you have said. Although it is important to have someone experienced with relationships to help you with your problems, their personal experiences are not your personal experiences.

    In fact, your personal experiences are what got you in this position in the first place! You should be looking for a different approach and angle!

    Jut my opinion! Anyway, love the site, keep up the posts!

    Cheers

    Jesse

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