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This article is an attempt to define philosophical counseling and compare it to professional psychological help, psychotherapy and coaching. In the first part, the author describes different types of psychological help and compares them to philosophical counseling. The next section focuses on psychotherapeutic approaches, which are also compared with philosophical counseling. Lastly, the author describes coaching, outlines commonalities with the other approaches and offers advice to the philosopher. The general conclusions of this comparative analysis can be summarized as follows. Philosophical counseling is a young field in Poland. We need to clarify its conceptual framework and scope by clearly demarcating the activities of philosophical counselors, psychologists, psychotherapists and coaches. It is important to emphasize that philosophical counseling is an approach to working with mentally healthy people, and that it cannot replace individual or group psychotherapy and professional psychological help. It is, however, an interesting approach similar to coaching. Philosophical coaching has great potential to become a successful practice for promoting the personal development of healthy people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]