Wellness & Educational Coaching is a forward-focused and goal-oriented approach that emphasizes growth, habit-building, and future goals rather than analyzing the past. Coaches act as guides or mentors to support clients with self-discovery from a peer-led, non-clinical lens. This scope typically includes; Building healthier lifestyle habits, setting realistic & personalized goals on personal, professional and educational wellbeing, strengthens motivation, fosters an accountability mindset. Coaches can help develop sustainable daily routines that support physical and emotional wellness, collaborate with healthcare providers amplify certain interventions while staying within a non diagnostic or clinical lens.

A wellness counsellor offers non-clinical, future-focused support that helps individuals improve lifestyle habits, emotional balance, and overall well-being. Their work centers on guidance, education, and practical strategies rather than diagnosis or treatment similar to a coach. However a wellness counsellor can work more on processing things deeper before using a more coaching approach to the clients wellness goals. In contrast, a mental health counsellor is a licensed professional who provides clinical therapy, assesses and treats mental health conditions, and works with clients to address deeper emotional concerns such as trauma, and psychological symptoms.

While wellness counselling supports general well-being and personal growth, mental-health counselling focuses on therapeutic healing and clinical intervention.

Psychotherapy is a clinical, evidence-based process in which a licensed mental health professional helps individuals understand, treat, and manage emotional, psychological, or behavioural challenges. It involves exploring thoughts, feelings, behaviours through past experiences, recognizing patterns to reduce symptoms, heal traumas, improve mental health, and support long-term psychological well-being. Psychotherapy can include structured approaches such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, narrative therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. It is designed to address diagnosable conditions by a registered mental health practitioner.

Think “limitations”. Each scope will have limitations to when and how they can support a student/client due to factors such as training or registration needs.

Currently SFTM only provides Wellness & Educational Coaching and Counselling while our founder is still in school to become a registered practitioner. Any of our team members can help with clarifying what approach may be best for you. Then send you to the appropriate direction.

Please email info@sftmwe.org for more information and to book a consult to see if our services will be a good fit in your journey.