I’m having a wibble because I know what I want to do but I have to tread carefully. What I want to offer may be experienced as therapeutic but I must never call it therapy. That is outside of my professional competency.
I also seem to remember someone, potentially a Paul Lawrence book, saying that the line between counselling and coaching was artificially drawn to allow coaching to become a profession in its own right. Still, we are where we are so I need to stick within the boundaries of my training.
I am an accredited coach and I have CPD in somatic coaching and creative methods with Lego. My coaching training included working with clean language and with metaphors so I don’t think I would be outside of my competency to use narrative methods which are similar.
I think my wibble stems from this most recent resurgence in interest in somatic coaching was sparked by hearing a podcast talk about how we need somatic therapists to hold space for people to really experience their feelings. Holding space for people really is my gift (honestly, I don’t think I’m good at many things, but I know that I listen exquisitely well) but I’m not going to be a somatic therapist. I think I can still serve people in the way this podcast imagined as a somatic coach. I just need to find my method