1. By: Rosie Ford, HFS and Counselor Intern

2. Licensure
 Who is qualified to provide counseling?
 Psychiatrists - MD
 Psychologists - Licensed Psychologists, Licensed
Medical Psychologists
 Social Workers - LCSW
 Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
 Licensed Counselors - LPC

3. The Law:
Practice Law VS Title Law
 Mental health counseling is protected under a practice
law
 Even if you don’t call yourself a counselor, if you are
PRACTICING counseling you are violating the law
 By law, an individual must have a license to practice
mental health counseling
 ONLY Exceptions:
 School counselors
 Pastoral counselors
 Counseling graduate students and interns

4. Relationship
Counseling
 Client is the expert
 Avoids giving advise
 Shared power in the
relationship
Coaching
 Coach is the expert
 Provides advice and gives
suggestions
Professional relationship that empowers
diverse individuals, families and groups
to accomplish mental health, wellness,
education and career goals.
Relationship between two individuals
where one has greater experience and
expertise than the other and offers advice
and guidance as the other goes through a
learning process.

5. Style
Counseling
 Supportive
 Assumes the client needs
healing
 Guides clients toward
experiencing relief through
recovery
 Helps people to build
supports to stabilize their life
 Develops healthy emotions
and relationships to
experience wellness
 When appropriate, mental
health counseling involves
treatment of mental
disorders
Coaching
 Encouraging and motivating
 Assumes the client is whole
 Driven by one word- results
 Guides clients toward
strategic ways to maximize
their results
 Builds healthy patterns with
accountability to experience
personal power

6. Things Discussed
Counseling
 Focused on resolving
painful problems from
the past or present
Coaching
 Focused on finding
creative ways to reach
client’s potential in the
present and the future

7. Goals
Counseling
 Healing from the past
 Client paced
 Can find answers from past
experiences
 Greater mental health and
feeling better via an
internal shift
 Relief from symptoms
related to mental disorders
Coaching
 Improve person’s current
lifestyle and meet their
goals
 Strives to make
challenging goals and meet
those goals by utilizing
intense accountability and
motivation
 Always looks toward the
future and the goals clients
have set
 Success via a clarified plan

8. Phrases
Counseling
 “What would you like to
talk about today?”
 “Can you tell me more
about that?”
 “And how did that make
you feel?”
Coaching
 “So what are you going to
do to change it.”
 “What are some things
you could do differently
to meet your goal.”
 “Great job!”, “Way to go!”,
“Keep up the good work.”

9. Summary
Counseling Coaching
 Exploring the past
 Healing old hurts
 Resolving issues
 Time tested theories
 Future focused
 Achieving goals
 Forward momentum
 Personalized plan

10. Referral Sources
 Eating Disorder Center
 Linda Fergus, Ms, RD, CSSD, LDN
 Mary Munger, MSW, LCSW (marymungerlcsw@gmail.com)
5329 Dijon Drive Suite 103
Baton Rouge, LA (near OLOL)
225-925-5750
 Baton Rouge Christian Counseling
 Peggy Arcement (peggy@brchristiancounseling.com)
763 North Boulevard
Baton Rouge, LA 70802
225-308-1955

11. Questions/Discussion