With Tom’s Brain Fitness coaching I’ve learned how to better master the logical, linear, analytical thinking skills and to integrate them more effectively with my well developed right brain.  I’m having more fun and less effort with the marketing of my art and less resistance/procrastination in the business aspects. 

I think my art is also richer as a result of working with Tom for the past 8 months."

-- G.F.  Los Angeles 

Most psychotherapy is based on the premise or assumption that there is something “wrong” with the client or patient – that the client or patient has a “mental illness.”

Healthy coaching is only for people who are ready to take responsibility for their own mental, emotional, and behavioral health or who want to be coached in that direction. We coach people towards greater mental and emotional health in the same spirit as a professional coach might coach an Olympic athlete towards greater and greater athletic performance.   At healthy coaching we believe that most everyone with basic cognitive and communication abilities can improve his or her mental and emotional health if he or she puts his/her attention on it.

Most psychotherapy is (1) centered around a specific school or method of treatment, such as psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavioral therapy, gestalt therapy, narrative therapy, etc. (there are reportedly over 400 different schools or “brands” of psychotherapy) and (2) involves some level of (or attention to) diagnosing the client/patient’s specific mental illness or illnesses (i.e. what’s WRONG with the client or patient). 

At healthy coaching we offer no diagnosing[1] or treatment, and we’ll even discourage you from self-diagnosis[2].  We believe that you are ultimately the person most qualified to be the expert on yourself.  Our coaching is designed to help empower your self-understanding and self-confidence in being a more effective expert on yourself and in your life.

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If you are interested in exploring psychotherapy as an avenue to greater mental, emotional, behavioral health, we can help you find the best therapist for you and we can coach you to have the most effective therapy experience.  We offer a separate TherapistMatch® program based upon therapy effectiveness research.