What is a Health Coach?
Health Coaches:
•Are wellness guides and supportive mentors that motivate individuals to cultivate positive health choices;
•Educate and support clients to achieve client-determined health goals through lifestyle and behavior adjustments;
•Empower their clients to take responsibility for their own health;
•Support client efforts to implement and sustain healthy lifestyle changes;
•Help clients with weight management, food cravings, sleep, energy improvement, stress management, digestive wellness, and improved diet.
What Makes a Health
Coach Unique?
Relationships, exercise, career, and spirituality are just as important to your health as the food you eat. Health Coaches understand this and take a holistic approach to supporting the whole person. Health Coaches work in many settings and, among other services, provide general wellness and nutrition information; options, recommendations, guidance, and motivation to establish healthier lifestyle routines; and other support mechanisms for achieving client-determined personal health goals.
The World Needs Health Coaches
Health Coaches fill a vital void that complements and does not replace the work of healthcare professionals. Health coaching is now recognized by some of the most acclaimed health institutions as an important tool to improve health and help lower healthcare expenditures.
Doctors don't always have the time or resources to help their patients build healthy lifestyle habits, so Health Coaches are needed to fill the void in our current healthcare system. Health Coaches are poised to become an integral part of an emerging preventative healthcare model. By helping clients develop and progress towards their personal wellness goals.