Coaching Agreement

COACHING IS:

• Coaching is defined as an alliance, not a legal business partnership, between coach and client. Coaching services facilitate the development of personal, professional, or career goals and aid in developing a strategy for achieving goals.

• Coaching includes no guarantees or warranties, expressed or implied, about any results to be achieved. *

COACHING IS NOT:

• Coaching is not therapy, counseling or advice giving and is not a substitute for psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, mental health care, substance abuse treatment, legal, medical or other professional services.

• Coaching does not prevent, cure, or treat any mental disorder or medical disease and it is the Client’s responsibility to seek such independent professional guidance as needed.*

RESPONSIBILITY (Coach):

• Coach will maintain the ethics and standards of professional behavior established by the International Coach Federation (ICF). The ICF Code of Ethics is available here: www.coachfederation.org.

• Coach is not and will not be liable or responsible for any action or inaction, or for any direct or indirect result of any coaching services provided.*

RESPONSIBILITY (Client):

• Client is responsible for personal, physical, mental, and emotional well-being and is solely responsible for decisions, choices, actions, and results.

• Client agrees to inform Coach of past or current mental health or substance abuse conditions, including concurrent treatment with other professionals.*

CONFIDENTIALITY

• Coach will keep all information and records confidential, to the extent defined by the laws of the state/country in which Coach and Client reside.

• Coach will notify appropriate mental health professionals and/or authorities if Client represents a danger to self or others.

• Coach may be a mandated reporter of child and/or elder abuse.

• Coach and Client acknowledge that communications via text and email are not encrypted nor secure, and therefore may not be confidential.*

PAYMENT and CANCELLATIONS

• Coach will hold and maintain a session for Client at a time that is suitable for both once payment has been received.

• Coach and Client will arrive on time, allowing sessions to begin and end on time. If client arrives late, sessions will not run long.

• If Client is more than 15 minutes late without calling, texting or emailing, the session will be canceled and Client must pay in full.

• Client must notify Coach at least 24 hours in advance to cancel or pay in full.*

EMERGENCY CANCELLATION

• In the event of an emergency or illness, Client will contact Coach as quickly as possible to reschedule. Service fee will be waived at sole discretion of Coach.*