Life Coaching With the Depth of Therapy
Sometimes you don’t need therapy because something is wrong. You need help figuring out what you want, why you haven’t gotten there, and what needs to change. That’s where life coaching helps.
At New Jersey Therapy and Life Coaching, our coaches are mental health professionals, not motivational speakers with a certificate. We understand motivation, anxiety, relationships, and the reasons people stay stuck even when they know exactly what they want to change.
You May Not Need Therapy. You May Need a Plan.
People come to coaching for many reasons. You may be successful in your career but no longer satisfied. You may be thinking about changing jobs, starting a business, retiring, ending a relationship, or starting a new one.
Or maybe nothing big has happened. You have ideas you never act on. You make plans and don’t follow through. You’ve been saying you’ll make a change for three years, and you’re still thinking about it.
Coaching gives that process structure. Together, we figure out what you want, what’s in the way, and how to turn intentions into decisions and decisions into action.
A Structured Program: Finding Your Path
Many coaches start each session with a blank page. We start with a plan. Our program is built around Finding Your Path, a workbook for adults in transition: people who have built careers, families, and reputations, and find that the life they built no longer fits the way it once did.
The program has three parts:
Part One: Where are you now? Why coaching now, where your energy goes each day, your values, and your strengths.
Part Two: What you want and what holds you back. Self-judgment, self-sabotage, and what you want your life to look like.
Part Three: Turning it into action. Fear and risk, the people around you, building habits, and your next 90 days.
Before your first session, you rate how satisfied you are with each area of your life. At the end, you rate them again. Change that’s easy to miss week to week is hard to miss on the page.
The Companion Book
Finding Your Path comes with a companion book that follows the workbook chapter by chapter. The workbook asks the questions. The companion book explains the ideas and research behind each chapter, so you understand why each step matters and can read ahead or look back between sessions.
When you finish, our second workbook, Living Your Path, picks up where the first leaves off: making the changes last and living the life you choose.
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What Life Coaching Can Focus On
Career changes and professional direction
Starting or growing a business
Leadership and workplace challenges
Retirement and what comes next
Major personal and financial decisions
Relationships, dating, and life after divorce
Confidence, motivation, and procrastination
Work-life balance
Feeling successful on paper but unsatisfied in real life
Some clients come with a specific decision to make. Others just know some part of life isn’t going the way they want. Both are good places to start.
Life Coaching and Therapy: What’s the Difference?
Therapy treats problems like depression, anxiety, trauma, and grief, and often looks at how the past affects the present. Coaching focuses on where you are now and where you want to go. It asks three questions:
What do you want?
What’s keeping you from getting there?
What are you going to do about it?
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Often the two overlap. You might start with a career change and find that anxiety has kept you from moving forward for years. You might want a better relationship and realize your patterns affect the partners you choose. When a workbook exercise brings up something deeper, like an old family role or a habit of saying yes to everyone, your coach recognizes it and knows what to do with it. That’s where our training as therapists matters most.
Why Work With a Therapist Who Coaches?
Anyone can call themselves a life coach. No specific training is required. Dr. Larry Cohen has worked as a therapist and life coach for more than 30 years. His background includes behavioral-health research, university teaching, and an NIMH Fellowship in Mental Health Services at the University of Chicago.
Our approach draws on the task-centered model William Reid and Laura Epstein developed at the University of Chicago in 1972, when life coaching began. The task-centered approach emphasizes clear goals, concrete tasks, and steady progress. Finding Your Path carries that tradition forward.
We don’t just ask where you want to go. We want to understand why you haven’t gotten there already.
We Won’t Run Your Life
We won’t tell you whether to quit your job, get divorced, or start the business you’ve talked about for ten years. Those are your decisions. Our job is to help you think clearly: question assumptions, spot patterns, separate real concerns from fear, and be honest when what you say you want doesn’t match what you’re doing.
Coaching for People Who Are Already Successful
You don’t have to be falling apart to ask for help. Many of our clients have good careers, families, and financial security. Their lives look fine from the outside. But fine isn’t the same as satisfying. Once you’ve reached the goals you were supposed to reach, you may face a hard question: Now what? Finding Your Path was written for exactly these clients.
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We also coach couples facing a shared decision or transition, and professionals working on leadership, communication, and career direction.
In-Person and Online Coaching
We offer in-person coaching in our Voorhees, NJ office, plus video and phone sessions. You can meet from home, your office, or your parked car between meetings. The workbook and companion book travel with you either way.
Take the First Step
Most big changes start long before someone makes them. Thinking about it is useful, but at some point something has to happen. If part of your personal or professional life has been weighing on you, coaching may be the right place to start.
Call New Jersey Therapy and Life Coaching at (856) 352-5428 to schedule your first life coaching session.