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The Integration of Coaching and Counseling in Early Sessions: Based on Short-Term Question-Centered Therapy

Counselors and psychotherapists are increasingly having to deal with the clients who are not yet prepared to change, particularly, in early sessions. Those who are in the so-called, “pre-contemplation” stage easily reveals their resistance to the counselors who dare to push their clinical interventions ahead of time. For this reason, it is noted that client’s stagematched paradigm is more needed than clinician’s intervention-oriented one. Marilee C. Goldberg’s short-term question-centered therapy shows that clients often focus on problems negatively and limitations in the early phase of counseling/therapy, rather than those learning to ask questions leading to solutions. Given these realities, this article argues that questioning skills in coaching professionals serve as an indispensable guide for integrating analytical, past-oriented “judger self” approach into an open-ended,imaginative “learner self” approach for a meaningful change in early sessions, especially, for those who are too familiar with analytical,intrapsychic questions in Christian (pastoral) counseling.