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Question 1: Is proactive focusing restricted to a particular problem area?
ABSOLUTELY NOT!!
Whether you are stuck in a marriage or a relationship, whether you are stuck in a job or having trouble making a career choice, Proactive Focusing will help you. If you don't know whether you should confront your boss or not, if you don't know how to make amends with that friend from long ago, or if you don't know how to handle certain situations with your spouse or children, Proactive Focusing will help you.
Proactive Focusing is NOT limited to one area of life. The skills that you need to make the decision to move ahead are the same. In your sessions and implementation of Proactive Focusing, you will see how these skills fit any situation you need to address.
Question 2: Is One on One Proactive Focusing like Psychotherapy?
Although it can be used in Psychotherapy and is currently being employed by more and more Psychotherapists, Proactive Focusing is not Psychotherapy.
Some similarities, however, do exist. Proactive Focusing is entirely dependent on what you bring to the sessions. In Proactive focusing you learn to listen to your deeper, quieter (perhaps suppressed) self. What goals, issues and ideas arise from this listening determine what you will work on and how.
The person guiding you will not impose a direction in which you should go, nor will she interpret things for you. You are the sole expert about yourself. One-on-one Proactive Focusing will teach you how to listen to yourself and move forward.
Unlike being in therapy you will not be asked about your history and you will not be diagnosed. In fact, you will not be asked questions at all. The focus will be on your relationship with yourself. Memories from your history may come up from your own inner process of focusing and you will be trained to stay with them.
Question 3: What is the difference between One-on-One Proactive Focusing session and Proactive Focusing Coaching session?
In a one-on-one Proactive Focusing session the person guiding you will not set goals with you. You will choose what you want to work on that day.
The person guiding you will assist you in techniques to listen to your self and to discover what is inside of you. A one-on-one sessions can relate to an immediate issue that arose at work that day, a recent argument with your spouse or a general discomfort.
Proactive focusing oriented coaching like one-on-one Proactive Focusing emphasizes listening to our body as an important part of the process. The guide will teach you a special way to listen to your body and develop an inner relationship with yourself. Unlike the Focusing sessions the coach will help you focus on your goals and stick to them. The coach will guide you through your process to help you reach movement towards your goals.
Both in one on one Proactive Focusing sessions and in Proactive Focusing coaching you will feel the sense of moving forward from a place of discomfort to a place that you see more clarity, hope and possibilities.
Question 4: Why Proactive Focusing Coaching and not any other coach?
Proactive Focusing allows real change to happen. The Proactive Focusing oriented coaching will help you get in touch with your "body knowing" and inner listening and will result in a deep change within you.
Proactive focusing is not behavior modification, as simple as picking up the phone instead of procrastinating or hiding from those on the other end of the phone line. It is not a one-time action that will bring immediate gratification.
Instead, Proactive Focusing deals with the deep blocks that have been holding you back. It teaches you how to identify your blocks through inner listening and address them in a way that will result in long-term achievements, life-style changes and a longer, firmer sense of satisfaction with your life. Proactive Focusing is about FACING YOURSELF in order to start building a solid foundation from which to build your life - the life that you design. Naturally, the process includes difficult, frightening and even painful issues. Listening to these places in us are crucial in Proactive focusing, as these are the blockages that have been stopping us from achieving our full potential. Do not fear, the process respects who you are, and leads you to look at yourself honestly, but yet with respect, self-acceptance and the knowledge and skills to change yourself. | 
