Clients have a problem that requires specialized expertise of the consultant to solve. Clients are not looking to grow their own set of skills, rather, they wish to rely upon the consultant to leverage their own know-how.

Hiring a Consultant is a way to get a concrete job done.

Clients are well functioning to very high functioning. They need help navigating personal blockages, strategizing, brainstorming, generating options, formulating plans, adding resources and other personal performance/ future-creation oriented items. 

Clients may be working at the organizational level, doing strategic planning or in leadership - Energy Coaching clients come from all walks and stages of life, engaged in all kinds of pursuits.

Energy Coaching is a way to super- fulfillment of the client's main goals and dreams in life.

Focus is on problem-solving, action plans, strategies, and accomplishing specific, significant goals.

Focus is on learning through the partnership between self-discovery and sustainable action, on the client creating a fulfilling life and empowering the client to do so through the various EnergyWork modalities best suited to the client's particular situation.

Past emotional situations are visited and cleared only as they relate to a client's difficulty in catalyzing appropriate action in the present, or future.

Focus is often on understanding patterns of feeling and behavior, reliving childhood experiences, releasing feelings associated with past trauma, abuse, or loss.

Focus is on the expertise of the consultant as problem-solver. The consultant can make the difference between success and failure by filling a gap the client has in knowledge, skills, or experience.

Focus is on the inner guidance of the client and the process of self-discovery as guided by the coach. The coach has the questions, the client discovers the answers. The coach coaches the client in how to apply Energy changework  modalities as and when necessary to power through blockages and set the future in place.

The coach is seen as a co-active partner in the fully empowered client's life.

Focus is on the guidance and modeling of the therapist, until the client is ready to guide her own life. The therapist is often seen as an authority figure with superior behavioral style and moral imperative.

Solving present day problems in service of achieving desired goals for the future. Providing teaching and mentoring to develop abilities and expertise.

Providing project planning, tools and services checklists, outsourcing references, quality assurance and occasionally management of main project and/or sub-projects.

Future-oriented in service of making the present come alive and provide true meaning in the client's life. The well-functioning client frees themself from blockages of the past, as guided by the coach with emphasis on out-of-session homework.

Occasionally personal issues present as blocks in the coaching process and are dealt with by the client inline, sometimes (but not always) in the coaching session,  expertly guided by the coach.

Problem solving surrounds the client's biggest dreams and deepest desires, removing any obstacles, and making those dreams start coming true in the present.

Most but not all therapy tends to be past-oriented, in service of freeing the client from the past—so she can choose new possibilities in the future.

Transference is not encouraged or used.

Transference occurs when the client abdicates power to the practitioner, and views the practitioner in a parental or authoritarian role.

In Energy Coaching, Transference is actively prevented by the full empowerment of the client - both in session and in their everyday life.

Transference is often encouraged, and the skilled use of transference is considered a valid therapeutic strategy.

Consultants sometimes ask why.

Coaches only occasionally ask why. Energy Coaches rarely ask why if at all.

"Why" questions tend not to lead to meaningful change, but justification and dissolution of focus.

Therapists often ask why.

Generally focuses on the specific project.

Focuses on the client's whole life.

Focuses on the client's whole life, or on one specific maladaptive portion.

Clients are engaged in solving important problems, carrying out long-term strategic plans, building a career, an organization, or a movement.

Challenges surround areas of expertise outside the organizational or personal level. Depending on the nature of the problem, security may be required. Consulting may last from three days to multiple years, depending on the project.

Clients are engaging with meaningful challenges in creating the life they most want to be living. They are turning their dreams into action. They are having bigger and bigger impact in the world.

Energy Coaching can last only a single session, though a more concentrated changework period of six months to a year or longer is optimal, depending on client need.

Many clients find Energy Coaching to be such a wonderfully supportive service they engage an Energy Coach on a more-or-less permanent basis, while some rotate in and out of Coaching as needed.

Clients often are dealing with serious and complex personal issues. They are dealing with serious pain and suffering. They are getting their lives together so they can then go after their dreams.

Therapy can go on for years or be brief and focused solely upon one issue. In a therapy year, the client may focus only on one portion of their life in order to get past a significant trauma. Important problems get solved, with emphasis on building a more confident, competent personality.

Consultants may do specific pieces of work for the client, or produce specific products.

The client does their own work from the very beginning. The focus is on the client taking their own action and being 100% responsible.

With Energy changework modalities, the client both erases the damages of the past as well as becomes increasingly more present, more resourceful, and completely empowered to handle whatever life throws at them.

Starting out with tiny steps, the client progressively does more and more of the work as therapy progresses.

Focuses on finding the right plan of action as quickly and directly as possible. Failure is considered a business and moral deficit.

Has an experimental spirit. Welcomes failures, and honors how the right kind of failing can be the key to success.

"There is no failure, only feedback" When we redefine failure as simply more data towards the right answer, guilt and shame at failure don't have a chance to enter the picture. The client is automatically more successful and finds the right answers much more quickly.

Focuses on getting to understanding and empowerment as soon as possible in order to help the client move out of distress.

Generally seeks to minimize resistance or find a path around it, in order to keep the focus on getting to the goal that's been agreed upon.

Welcomes resistance as a rich, juicy place for learning, and as an important, often necessary, stage in moving forward.

Energy modification techniques are uniquely formulated to deal with internal resistance. Hence, Energy Coaching views resistance as transformative, and with application of the techniques, short-lived.

Sometimes welcomes resistance as productive and transformative. Sometimes views resistance as a problem, as something getting in the way and something to get rid of.

Is generally business-like in spirit and approach.

Has a playful, creative spirit of discovery even when it's being quite serious about tough issues.

Is generally serious in spirit and approach in line with how serious the client's issues are.

Consultants refer people to coaches or therapists as needed. They provide neither of these additional services.

Energy Coaches refer clients to consultants or therapists as needed. Coaches do not provide therapy unless licensed to do so, and then only seperately.  Under certain circumstances, Energy Coaches may act in a consulting capacity.

Therapists refer people to consultants and coaches as needed, and know the dividing line between therapy and coaching. 

While some may also advertise themselves as coaches, therapists never coach without additional training and then only as a seperate service.

Consulting can be a blessing.

Energy Coaching can be a blessing.

Therapy can be a blessing.