COACHING EMOTIONALLY DEPENDENT PEOPLE

Claude Bougie, a skillful Coach in Montreal Canada, with a heart for Neuro-Semantics wrote to me recently asking about the Neuro-Semantic approach to dealing with clients who are emotionally dependent. When I asked Claude what he meant by that, he wrote that they are clients who believe that “it is better to stay in a bad relationship than to be alone.” He also commended that they are using their relationships to get such things as protection, self-esteem, and acknowledgment.

Now as a Meta-Coach, the first question I hope you are asking yourself is, “Is someone emotionally dependent a psychologically healthy person and someone ready for coaching? Isn’t a person like that more a client of therapy rather than coaching?”