First of all, it should be noted: both psychologists and coaches agree that each person has everything necessary to solve ANY problem. This is a basic, fundamental belief, without which no positive changes in the client’s life are possible. However, not every situation can be resolved optimally within the framework of independent logical constructions. This is due to the fact that each person’s EXPERIENCE is unique and can include a number of events, including traumatic ones, that form a number of beliefs and defense mechanisms that protect a person from possible pain. Sometimes such protection literally splits a person’s experience, making resources and resources unavailable for use. opportunities that he nevertheless has. It is not always possible to directly overcome such defenses. And a coach or psychologist does not have such a task. Psychotherapy deals with correction and restoration. A coach and psychologist help solve current life problems or cope with adversity. And all kinds of people come to us. Including those who have all the resources, but “outside the access zone.” Creativity helps to gain access to blocked resources: a purposeful process of creative rethinking of the situation, analyzing it and synthesizing possible ideas about it. The necessary components of a psychologist’s creativity are his erudition, comprehensive development, artistic taste, sense of humor, empathy. The uniqueness of the psychologist as an individual, as it were, creates an artificial superstructure to the client’s experience, which allows him to expand his emotional, cognitive and behavioral potential. At the same time, psychologists and coaches are not identical to each other, and if a problem is not solved by working with one specialist, it can be solved by working with another - we change one add-on to another. The creative process itself is the introduction of new elements into the situation, modification, revaluation or limitation of existing ones. How would you solve this problem if you were 5 years old? What if it was 80?2. Will this matter in a year? 3. What would Carlson-who-lives-on-the-roof say to this?4. If you had to state the problem in one sentence, it would be...?5. If we made a film about this, what would it be called?6. Please describe this situation with five adjectives and your actions with ten verbs. Time for the task is 5 minutes. These are a few examples of questions that can color the client’s case with new colors, sounds, meanings, filters, roles, characters, quantitative and qualitative assessments. Projective and art techniques, free associations and metaphors, sketching and mind maps, freewriting and timers are just some examples in the huge variety of creative tools of modern psychologists and coaches, especially those working in a multimodal or eclectic approach. Sometimes, having followed this path, the client thinks he has received insight or illumination. I think that we were able to briefly open access to the client’s blocked resources. It is important to understand that creativity is used by a coach not for the sake of creativity itself, but for the sake of the specific result obtained by the client. This result cannot always be weighed on a scale or recalculated in a checking account, but there must be criteria by which we will understand whether we are being creative in the right direction or are getting lost. And if the creative goal is achieved, it is important to be able to reach the level of practical implementation. In a way, the psychologist has three tasks here: to inspire the client, process his stream of consciousness and turn off the tap when the cup is full. I wish you productive sessions!