[Note: This post was updated February 2021 for freshness & clarity.] A recent article in the Wall Street Journal, titled “Executive Coach or Therapist? It’s Getting Harder to Tell the Difference” (Bindley, 2019) again renews the debate about the blurred line between where coaching ends and where therapy begins. But why are personal issues coming up when coaches are hired by companies to do executive coaching (performance improvement or development)? Here’s a good reason — Acc