What is the difference between coaching and therapy?
There are nuances to both and every practice is unique, but some key differences are that coaching is typically more forward-looking and does not rely on diagnosis. Some of your past may come into it, but the focus is always to glean insights that help you in the present and move you forward into the future.
The goal of Turn Key’s style of coaching is to help you better understand yourself so that you can make decisions that serve you more effectively. This is achieved through a combination of introspective questions, mindfulness practices, and strengths-focused exercises.
Depending on the challenge you’re facing, one modality—therapy or coaching—may suit you better than the other, or, a combination of the two. Any licensed therapist or Certified Professional Coach should be able to help you make a determination after learning more about your needs.
Turn Key considers itself a partner and compliment to therapy, meditation, and even other coaching practices. Like creating a balanced and effective workout regimen, finding what works for you in your mental routine is key.
What is unique about Turn Key?
In my experience as a client looking for support back in 2018, what I found were very distinct, siloed options: therapy to quell your anxiety, career coaching to make you better at your current job, recruiting to find you a new job, meditation to generally improve your present, and financial planning to improve your future.
I needed all of the above and then some, but I didn’t want—nor could I afford—to find a different specialist to help me with each of these things. I needed someone to look at the whole picture and help me figure out what to do. I also knew that almost every single person in my life had the exact same set of challenges. So why didn’t something exist for this? Turn Key is the hybrid solution I created for people looking to connect the dots and make tangible progress across all of these areas in an authentic and lasting way.
Turn Key is also incredibly focused on the progress you can make on your own time and in your own way. Turn Key “sessions” come with detailed takeaways, challenges, and accountability structures so that goals are clear, progress is tracked, and learning can continue outside of our work together.
Lastly, there is no limit to what can be created with Turn Key. Through the course of our work together, my clients and I have collaborated to produce business plans, brand materials, hiring matrices, cover letters, outreach templates, as well as more in-depth business and employee programming / curricula. I am open to helping develop whatever output you and or your business needs to reach your goals.
wHY BRING TURN KEY INTO THE WORKPLACE?
One year into Turn Key it became clear to me that it would make my client’s lives a lot easier if the progress they were making in our sessions was something they could continue to experience and build on in their other spaces, namely at work. I know from experience that it is very difficult to try to be who you truly are—leaning into your strengths and learning through your imperfections—if the people and environment around you are not conducive to that.
Not to mention, with never-before-seen division unfolding across our country, it was obvious that we needed more self-knowing, perspective, compassion, and the list goes on, in more places. As much of it as we could get. I figured that in our culture, the world of work would be a good and tangible place to start. Being in touch with ourselves and with each other can power businesses forward, with a lot less turnover I might add.
How are you qualified to offer this kind of service?
I received my Professional Coaching Certification through Coaching For Transformation at Leadership That Works, a program grounded in 20 years of research, experience, and field-testing, that is specifically known for its holistic approach and its emphasis on cultural awareness, social change, and deep-emotion training. I am currently earning my Licensed Master of Social Work (LMSW) at Hunter College’s Silberman School of Social Work, which is known for its pioneering approach to individual and social change.
Prior to starting Turn Key, I spent 7 years helping CEOs of mission-driven startups shape and grow their companies through business development and strategic partnership work as well as employee engagement and culture initiatives.
Any individual job seeker who wants to pursue a career at the intersection of their true interests and strengths. And / or any startup founder, small business owner, or startup / SMB team leader who wants to take an unconventional, but effective, approach to building their culture and team.
who is Turn Key best suited for?
A common misconception of coaching is that it is “advice.” Especially in the case of Turn Key, advice is not the focus. Turn Key’s focus is to create space and support for you to answer your own questions and help co-create your own solutions.
Turn Key will provide the exercises, materials, tools, suggested resources, support, and accountability structure needed to get to where you want to go. Turn Key is a thought-partner, not a consultant or a vendor.