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Therapy | Mentoring | Consulting | Coaching |
| Deals with a person's past and trauma, and seeks healing | Deals mostly with succession training and seeks to help someone to do what you do | Deals mostly with problems and seeks to provide information (expertise, strategy, methodologies) to solve problems | Deals mostly with a person's present and seeks to guide them into a more desirable future |
| Doctor-patient relationship (therapist has the answers) | Older/wiser-younger/less experienced relationship (mentor has the answers | Expert person with problem relationship (consultant has the answers) | Co-creative, equal partnership (coach helps clientdiscover their own answers) |
| Assumes many emotions are symptom of something wrong | Limited to emotional response of the mentoring parameters (succession, etc.) | Does not normally address or deal with emotions (informational only) | Assumes emotions are natural and normalizes them |
| The therapist diagnosis, then provides professional expertise and guidelines to give clients a path to healing | The mentor allows you to observe his/her behavior and expertise, will answer questions, and provide guidance and wisdom for the stated purpose of the mentoring | The consultant stands back, evaluates a situation, then tells you the problem and how to fix it | The coach stands with you, and helps you identify the challenges, then works with you to turn challenges into victories and hold you accountable to reach your desired goals |
