1. What is a life coach?

A life coach is a professional who helps individuals identify and achieve their personal or professional goals. Life coaches provide guidance, support, and accountability to help clients make meaningful changes, overcome obstacles, and create strategies for personal growth and development. They help clients to clarify their aspirations, set actionable goals, and build the confidence to pursue them.

2. What is the difference between a coach and a therapist? 

The difference between a life coach and a therapist lies primarily in their focus, training, approach, and the types of issues they address. While both professionals help individuals improve their lives and well-being, they do so in different ways and often for different purposes. 

Life coaches focus more on the present day factors that are limiting or enabling the clients goals for the future, while a therapist often focuses more attention to the past, helping the client understand what kinds of experiences, trauma’s, influences, etc shaped their life up to the present. A therapist also has higher certification requirements that enable them to diagnose mental health disorders and even subscribe medications accordingly. 

As a certified Trauma Informed Recovery Coach, Jason Pidcock Coaching offers a hybrid of those approaches, often addressing the past traumatic experiences of the client in order to provide more power for present growth and future goal achievement.

3. How do I know if life coaching is right for me? 

Life coaching may be right for you if you're feeling stuck, seeking personal growth, or need help clarifying your goals and creating a plan to achieve them. If you're motivated to make positive changes, open to new perspectives, and ready to take action, life coaching can provide guidance, support, and accountability to help you move forward. It's ideal for those who want to focus on the future and work towards specific outcomes.

4. What platforms do you use for your coaching sessions? 

Jason Pidcock Coaching offers 50 minute meetings in person, virtually (via Zoom), or by phone if face to face is not available.

5. How often can I schedule meetings?

You are welcome to schedule meetings as often as you want in the available times shown on the scheduling calendar.

6. What are your qualifications and experience as a life coach?

I am a Trauma Informed Recovery Coach certified by the International Association of Trauma Informed Recovery Coaching. Beyond my formal certification, I have personally spent the last 10 years doing my own work to recover from my personal trauma’s, behavioral addictions, etc with various professional therapists and coaches of my own. I am a firm believer in “doing your own work first” before attempting to help others with theirs, and I am deeply grateful to now be in a position where I can do that.