What is Christian Life Coaching
With 25 years of experience in traditional psychotherapy and Christian counseling, Dr. McCoy has a vast a varied background to apply to your issues and concerns.
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What is Christian Life Coaching?
Simply put, a life coach in general helps you to get from where you are to where you want to be. If you aren’t sure where you want to be, and you feel “stuck” A life coach will ask questions to help you define how you want to grow and work together with you to find ways to achieve your goals. Your goals may be physical, spiritual, psychological, career-oriented, relationship-oriented, or any combination of these.
As a Christian coach, I do not necessarily quote the Bible a lot or push my own theological beliefs on my clients. I listen to find out what their beliefs are and encourage them in the ways their faith can support their desire to grow. I do believe that God created each person and that with intentionality, every person can grow into the fulfillment of God’s beautiful and unique design for them.
In the first session of coaching, I will ask questions and seek to understand what kinds of issues you would like to work on. If you don’t know, that’s okay! Many clients come to coaching with a vague feeling that something in their life could be better but are not sure what. That is understandable; all of us find it difficult sometimes to “see the forest for all the trees”. Life can be complex and confusing. I aim to help you clarify, discern, and gain hope and direction.
My background makes me highly qualified to work with a variety of issues. I worked in private practice as a licensed counselor for 25 years. For 20 of those years, I taught psychology classes and trained and supervised therapists. I have a master’s degree in religion, a master’s degree in counseling psychology, and a Ph.D. in Family Psychology.
Recently, the state of Oklahoma has begun to enforce policies that I believe are a gross violation of counseling client’s confidentiality. They are requiring all mental health practitioners to report client information to a state-wide database. One only has to read the news to know that no database is secure. In addition to cyber attacks, there is a risk that many other people will have access to this database.
In response to this overreach of government, I have decided to not practice as a licensed professional counselor in Oklahoma any longer. This is a personal risk to my business, and giving up a license I worked long and hard for was a difficult decision. It seemed to me that to protect my clients, I had no other choice. The requirement for reporting client data does not extend to professionals operating under the title of Life Coaching.
As a Life Coach, I am way over-qualified! For my clients, that is a good thing. I bring a vast amount of experience and knowledge to the practice that the majority of Life Coaches do not have.
If you feel stuck in any area of your life, if you have the feeling that life could be better, or a desire to grow in some area of life, I would love to work with you!