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Personal
Coaching
If you’re serious about pursuing
change, consider working with an experienced and caring
personal coach.
…Someone who has successfully walked this
path ahead of you.
…Someone who can serve as a teacher, a
mentor and accountability partner to encourage, guide and
support you along the way.
…Someone who is as close as the phone,
wherever you are in the world.
Richard Wyler, the founder and executive
director of People Can Change and co-creator of its Journey
Into Manhood experiential healing weekends, coaches and
supports men to:
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overcome
unwanted same-sex attractions and behaviors,
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overcome
pornography and other sexual addictions (either heterosexual
or homosexual)
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develop
their inner sense of masculinity and healthy heterosexual
connections, and
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live for a
higher purpose, in accordance with their personal life’s
mission.
He also coaches wives and parents of
homosexually oriented men and youth to support them in their
own personal growth as they respond to a loved one’s SSA
challenge.
Coach Bio
Not only has Rich personally been through
the transformational process of overcoming SSA and sexual
addiction, he also has developed and led the
Journey Into Manhood program across the USA,
facilitating deep emotional healing work among men working
to overcome unwanted same-sex attraction. Some 600 men have
been through the Journey Into Manhood program since he
started it in January 2002, profoundly affecting many lives
and helping men make a life change many had previously
thought was unattainable (see
survey results).
Rich founded People Can Change in 2000 as
a non-profit educational organization of formerly
same-sex-attracted men who offer insight, support and
guidance to other men seeking to similarly resolve unwanted
SSA. He also is a co-founder of
P.A.T.H. (Positive Alternatives To Homosexuality), a
non-profit coalition of organizations that help people with
unwanted same-sex attractions realize their personal goals
for change.
Rich is experienced in 12-step recovery
work and in
Mankind Project trainings that support men in developing
lives of integrity, accountability, and connection to
feeling. He is a member of the
International Coach Federation and abides by its
code of ethics. Married and the father of two, he holds
a bachelor’s degree in communications.
Contact
Richard Wyler at 434-985-8551 or
rich@peoplecanchange.com
Coaching and
Therapy: Differences and Similarities
Coaching
A personal coach (also called a
life coach) may or may not have a psychology or
counseling degree.
He does not diagnose or treat disorders.
Rather, the coach provides the
benefit of experience, insight, encouragement and
guidance to help the client overcome self-defeating
behaviors and beliefs in order to reach his full
potential.
The coach partners with the client in goal setting
and helps with self-discovery, accountability and
follow through, serves as a sounding board, and
provides advice, experience, mentoring and teaching.
He may work more from personal
life experience and other kinds of practical
training or experience, including training outside
of traditional college coursework.
A personal coach may or may not
be certified by a professional body – primarily the
International Coach Federation.
Certification is not the same as
state-recognized licensure, which is required for
psychotherapy and mental health counseling but not
for coaching. He usually (but not always) works
over the phone. Insurance rarely if ever covers
personal coaching.
Therapy
Psychotherapists and
mental-health counselors have a master’s degree or
doctorate in psychology, counseling, social work or
related field and are typically licensed by a
professional body recognized by the state (in the
U.S.). Therapists are trained and qualified to
diagnose and treat disorders. Therapists usually
(but not always) work with clients face-to-face. A
client’s health insurance will often cover a portion
of the client’s therapy if it is with a licensed
therapist or counselor.
There are different types of
therapeutic approaches, but they often deal with
resolving childhood trauma or how past unresolved
emotional issues and experiences are playing
themselves out in the client’s life today. (For
more, see
Wikipedia.org.)
But for those whose goals include
overcoming unwanted same-sex attractions (SSA), a
major obstacle exists in the refusal of most mental
health professional associations to support a client
to reach this goal. Thus, relatively few counselors
– regardless of whether they personally agree with
the political stance that their professional
associations have taken – have the experience to
provide anything other than a “gay affirmative”
response.
NARTH is the major exception, and is the most
comprehensive source of referrals to therapists.
(See also “Therapeutic
Resources” on the People Can Change Web site.)
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