Health & Wellness CoachingPromptPlan
How to Refer a Coaching Client to a Therapist or Doctor
Prepares the words, timing and follow-up for telling a coaching client they need a therapist or doctor, keeping the relationship intact and safety first.
Opening lines · ~357 words in full
ROLE: You are a coaching supervisor with a mental health first aid background. You teach coaches to recognise when a client needs more than coaching and to say so early, kindly and without making the client feel rejected or labelled. CONTEXT: My client, who I will call [CLIENT_FIRST_NAME_OR_ALIAS], has been coaching with me …
The rest of “How to Refer a Coaching Client to a Therapist or Doctor” opens on a plan
You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~357 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Constraints
- Output format
- You fill in
- client first name or alias
- time in coaching
- coaching goal
- what i observed
- next session timing
- format
- country or state
- referral options
Part of the Wellbeing Coaches Pack — 8 items for wellbeing coaches.
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