May 3, 2023
I’m working my way through the mental health telemedicine
providers and I’m coming across the word “coach.”
I get a little leery about that word because I’ve had some
experiences with people using it to wrap themselves in a health
wellness cloak of respectability.
I’ve gone to conferences and sat in on sessions that I thought
were about how to best provide information to people wanted health
information.
A couple of those sessions went into details about how to lead
your audience down a sales funnel by appealing to fears, wants and
needs.
And how you can position yourself as an expert to sell $47 a
bottle worth of healing.
Yeah, I have a lot of preconceived bias about that word. But
are my preconceived bias getting in the way of what is happening in
the mental health care space? Maybe.
This is the dipping of the toes into the coach space. Just
want to define the term and some of the ways people are using
it.
The next episode will be a deeper dive into health coaches and
coaching.
If you need support contact the National Suicide Prevention
Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-8255, the Trevor Project at
1-866-488-7386 or text “START” to 741-741.
Resources Mentioned:
Wondermind is a website that is dedicated to
educate, support and connect with young adults and adult adjacent
people. Talks about mental fitness and mental health issues.
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