Find a coach/mentor
Find a coach/mentor
What is the difference between counselling and coaching?
While counselling and coaching can overlap and may feel similar at times, they generally serve different needs and address different objectives.
Counselling often explores the past to understand the present, whilst coaching focuses more on the present and the future. Counsellors often help people with mental health conditions and work towards emotional healing from past pain and trauma. Coaching can be helpful for people looking for support to unlock untapped potential or move forward through seasons of professional or personal change.
Some coaches specialise in professional development such as enhancing leadership skills, performance, or career growth. Others may focus more on holistic life coaching, often helping people navigate significant times of transition in their life.
What about mentoring?
A mentor provides direct advice and may share specific subject expertise based on their own experience. It can be a more long-term relationship that invests in both personal and professional development.
Our Find a coach/mentor is designed to help you find a suitable coach or mentor. Type what you are looking for into the search box above; once you press “Search”, it will bring up a page that shows search results as well as more filters if you want to narrow your search further to find a coach or mentor that specialises in a particular field.
All ACC coaches/mentors:
- adhere to ACC’s code of ethics for coaching and mentoring
- have professional indemnity insurance
- commit to regular continuing professional development
- undertake regular supervision
- are Christians
Coaches/mentors listed on the ACC directory are described as being either accredited or verified.
Our accredited coaches/mentors have been independently accredited by an approved professional coaching/mentoring body, for example the Association for Coaching (AfC), the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) or the International Coaching Federation (ICF), amongst others. To be accredited by a professional body coaches/mentors will have undertaken significant professional training and assessment and have substantial client experience. Coaches/mentors are accredited at different levels depending on their experience. (More details can be found on the professional coaching bodies’ own websites.)
Our verified coaches/mentors do not hold an accreditation with one of the approved professional bodies. They have, however, met basic training standards and practice hours set by ACC (a minimum of 50 hours training, 50 hours practice, with a minimum of 5 clients) and may be working towards accreditation with a professional body.
As Christian practitioners, all our coaches and mentors honour every client’s faith journey and beliefs and can include these in discussions when the client so wishes.