Perception is everything. And sometimes, it takes a bit of questioning for our own perceptions to align with others’.

Recently, a client informed me that I was an Executive Life Coach. She of course, was the executive. And it was her life that I was coaching.

She recognized too, that while she might otherwise call our work psychotherapy, she felt it was coaching. And since she was comfortable with that, coaching it remained. Though, to be generous to me— she chose to link my professional qualifications to the executive life coach functioning I provided: hence, I became a professional executive life coach.

How was it different from what I called it? The work had begun in twice weekly psychotherapy. It had evolved into less frequent coaching sessions, focused on her executive role. And when she’d been downsized, we’d reoriented to her management of the new challenges in late mid-life, of consolidating what she knew and experienced with an eye to marketing her skills in a new way, while managing the anxieties of under-employment.

And so I became a professional executive life coach. The title is fine by me, because I’m doing my job.

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