Challenges to Building Coaching Relationships
Conceptually, the coaching relationship can be viewed as a “helping” relationship, similar in structure to that described by Egan (2002). Of specific interest to the emerging discipline of coaching psychology are the many structural similarities observable between therapeutic relationships and those established within the practice of coaching (see Chapter One by McKenna and Davis; Kemp, 2008a). In addition to this, previous comparisons of professional practice within the counseling and therapeutic fields have highlighted the educational, developmental, and essentially nonclinical nature of these practices in many situations (Corey, 2004; Egan, 2002).
The working or therapeutic alliance are terms often ...
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