The New Private Practice
Therapist-Coaches Share Stories, Strategies, and Advice

Lynn Grodzki

Overview – Excerpt – Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Overview: The New Private Practice
Lynn Grodzki
What is this thing called coaching? A clear analysis of the differences and similarities between coaching and therapy from an insider’s point of view.

Part I: Executive Coaching
How therapists shift aspects of their professional identities and adopt different skill-sets to fit into the corporate, fast-paced, show-me-results business world.

1. Coaching CEO’s and Executive Teams
   Robert Niederman
2. The Leadership Edge
   Hannah Wilder
3. Dysfunction or Discovery: A Former Therapist Becomes an Executive Coach
   Pat Williams
4. The Role of the Family Business Coach
   Kacie La Chappelle
5. Coaching Professional Women to Speak Up
   Linda Tillman
6. The Hardiness Factor: Heightening Executive Productivity
   Carole Stovall

Part II: Personal Coaching
Personal coaches work outside of a traditional medical model, enjoying a sense of freedom and autonomy not always possible while engaged in the practice of therapy.

7. Beyond Insight to Vision
   Susan Shevlin
8. Using Lightness and Humor to Coach Highly Creative People
   Roz Van Meter
9. A Spiritual Approach to Coaching
   Debbie Call

Part III: Peak Performance Coaching
Coaching to enhance performance means knowing how to be both tender and tough, to help clients stretch far beyond their normal abilities and perform at levels of excellence.

10. From Frozen to Fearless: Coaching an Amateur
    Athlete Wendy Allen
11. Uncommon-Sense Coaching
    Carol Sommer
12. Alignment 101: Helping Professional Athletes Maintain High-Performance Careers
    Audrey Penn

Part IV: Special Niches Coaching
Giving into a strong 'itch to niche,' some coaches build practices around a particular passion or expertise and attract a specialized clientele.

13. When the Therapist Needs a Coach
    Lynn Grodzki
14. The Money Coach
    Lynne Hornyak
15. Celebrating Success with Special College Students
    June Bond
16. Coaching Lawyers
    Ellen Ostrow

About the Author

Lynn Grodzki, LCSW-C, is a psychotherapist and business coach. She lives and works in Silver Spring, MD.

ISBN: 0-393-70379-X
January, 2002
Hardcover, 288 pages