Therapists, coaches, and healers are all professionals who work to support people in improving their well-being, but there are important differences between these roles.
A therapist is a licensed mental health professional who is trained to diagnose and treat mental health disorders using evidence-based techniques. Therapists may work with individuals, couples, families, or groups, and they often focus on helping people to manage symptoms of mental illness, improve their relationships, and increase their overall well-being.
Therapists may also use a variety of modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, or Humanistic Therapy. Their evidence-based paradigm is supported by Science, which is a system that reinforces our understanding of the general workings of the external world, as experienced and validated by consensus of the human collective understanding, utilizing the "5 senses" (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell).
A coach is a professional who helps individuals or groups to set and achieve specific goals related to personal or professional development or milestones. Coaches may work with clients on improving skills such as leadership, communication, or time management, or they may focus on helping clients to clarify their values and priorities and develop a plan to achieve their goals.
Unlike therapists, coaches do not diagnose or treat mental health disorders and do not typically work with clients who are experiencing severe emotional or psychological distress.
Coaches are great for those with a specific goal or achievement in mind as they will provide structure and support to accomplish those goals. If someone is without clear goals, or milestones to reach, a coach may not be a good fit for them.
Qualification of coaches vary widely and are generally based on the individual coach's personal experience, or area of expertise, or based on their knowledge and ability to demonstrate accomplishment of goals similar to yours.
A healer is a broad term that can refer to a variety of professionals who work to promote physical, emotional, or spiritual healing. Healers may include traditional healers, such as shamans or herbalists, as well as modern practitioners of alternative or complementary therapies, such as Reiki, Acupuncture, Sound Healing or Psychic readings.
Healers may work with clients to promote relaxation, reduce stress, or alleviate physical symptoms of illness or injury. Healers often help people on issues of spirit, spirits, trauma, epigenetic trauma, ghosts, deaths, births and past lives. Some healers can help release trauma from the body, update agreements with your ancestral lineage, release you of karmic cycles to effectively let go and move on, and remove currently attached and unwanted energies and entities.
Different healers facilitate healing by working with the energy body, spirits, angels, guides, tao, chi, akashic records, prayer, etc. Healers typically carry a spiritual lineage, knowledge, and understanding of healing that requires the active usage of intuitive centers, which includes and transcends our 5 senses.
Unlike therapists or coaches, healers do not diagnose mental health disorders, as they view the ailments of humans through different lenses outside of Western Medicine. Unlike therapists, their methods may not be based scientific-verified, but many modalities are now being science verified such as meditation, sound healing, and reiki.
Healers can be trained in a variety of western and eastern traditions and the training for "knowing and understanding" becomes highly subjective in nature, as the healer "takes on" the energy healing practice into their body, to then share that healing energy with others, which includes their relationship with their body as a necessary component for healing the attendee, unlike the therapy, a science-based use of non-subjective knowing and validation.
A healer may or may not need to be in psychical proximity with those they are working with to be effectivedepending in the modalities they use.
Overall, the decision to hire a therapist, coach, or healer would depend on the specific needs of the individual.
If someone is struggling with a diagnosed mental health condition, a therapist would be the best option.
If they are looking to achieve specific goals in their personal or professional life, a coach may be more appropriate.
And if they are looking to heal trauma, end karmic cycles, address concerns of life or death, or improve their overall well-being and spiritual connection, a healer may be the right choice.