Your Clients Really Improve? Show Me the Data.
Posted on November 06, 2013 by Shannon Avana, One of Thousands of Business Coaches on Noomii.
See statistics about my clients over this past year, and multiple video testimonials.
As someone who is a life coach, not a psychotherapist or other form of classically trained therapist, I often have skeptical potential clients ask me “Why should I hire you?”
Its a fair question – up until now, it has always been just my word that I know what I’m doing, with only a coaching certification and not a prestigious university degree in psychology to back me up. The wonderful testimonials I have from many different clients help, but how do new prospective clients know that I’m not cherry picking and only presenting the best cases when the rest might not be so good?
Having been through this system myself, I am very sympathetic to these questions. Its not really about whether I’m a coach or a therapist. Its about you wanting to know that hiring me will be the best move you can make toward getting the results that you want.
Here is a graph of the data of my 18 new clients who have started in 2013 and had two or more sessions through mid- September with me:
http://www.positivevector.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/image.png
The average initial http://moodscope.com score of my clients (blue line) was 29%, and the average client score by 5 (red lines) sessions is 40%. Average improvement over the first 5 sessions in terms of score was 50%.
Since I don’t know of anyone else in this industry – be they a coach, therapist, or counselor, who publishes their results, I can’t tell you for sure with numbers that these results are exceptionally good compared to your other options.
However, I can say that based on my own experience, and the experiences I’ve heard from clients and friends, I do think that these numbers are exceptionally good. I get client after client who improves within weeks or months of working with me, who has not had improved with years of therapy prior to our work together. The best I can suggest for evaluating is to consider what sorts of results you have gotten with past intervention attempts, and to make your best guess about what sorts of results you would get from other options you might try.
I recommend taking metrics regardless of what you try for improvement, so that you stay conscious about whether what you are doing is serving you or not, to help you make good choices about future actions.
As for my own statistics, these are my first pass, there will be more detailed ones coming. I am thrilled to be able to provide the sorts of information that I so wanted back when I was in the position of being depressed and anxious and wanting to choose a good practitioner for help.
For those wondering about longer term results, here is a testimonial from a client of mine who worked with me for 6 months, filmed a year after she completed:
After 30 years of Therapy, 6 Months Was the Catalyst
http://youtu.be/B_qthMFNj7c
Here are some other video testimonials:
Not a Slave to The Distractions Anymore
http://youtu.be/5WmTJWJFIPI
Not Depressed Anymore and Getting Over Half Again as Much Done!
http://youtu.be/YryNYZnc3q4
Sleeping Less, Feeling Better, and Pursuing her Dream Career
http://youtu.be/F1HyHDNgZqc
I Feel Like I Can Do Things to Fix My Problems Now
http://youtu.be/5E—9dOKiOo
