By Rich Simon As therapists, many of us practice in two different worlds. In the first, we see polite, well-behaved, articulate clients with solid values. They engage fully in therapy, talk cogently about their problems, listen attentively to our responses, make reasonably good-faith efforts to follow our suggestions, and sooner or later get better. No wonder we genuinely like these people! 
By Rich Simon A thousand years ago, during the palmy days of generous insurance reimbursement, therapists could maintain the illusion that, since therapy was paid for by an unseen hidden hand, clinical practice was somehow untouched by the tacky subject of money. Even the style of therapy reflected this disjunction: 
The Coaching Edge
Helping Clients Take Their Best Shot
Lynn Grodzki • A new style has emerged that integrates the in-depth understanding of traditional therapy with the experience of being instructed, pushed, and challenged identified with coaching. Can a clinician encompass both styles with the same client?
Joining Through Truth
Coaching And Our Assumptions
By Terry Real • A new breed of therapist believes that, rather than biting their lips when they see clients display their obnoxious, selfish, or self-defeating behaviors, it’s disrespectful not to say to them what traditionalists might only share in a supervision group.
Swimming with the Sharks
From Therapist to Executive Coach
By Rob Pasick • A therapist from a working-class background, steeped in the antibusiness values of the therapy profession, finds himself on a surprising mid-career journey into the belly of 21st-century capitalism as an executive coach.
Reinventing Your Life
Finding Self-Renewal in the Himalayas
By Jeffrey Kottler • Tens of thousands of miles away from his practice, a therapist accidentally discovers a new sense of purpose, unable to distinguish the act of giving from the act of love.
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