WHAT IS HEALTH & WELLNESS COACHING
Ready to make an everlasting change? Including a Health & Wellness coach into your support team has been proven to be a key ingredient.
Why you might ask:
- Specialize in behavior change.
- Support in finding your own strategies and motivation for change, overcoming obstacles, and implementing protocols that have either been prescribed by a clinician or nutritionist/dietitian or that you have chosen to implement on your own.
- We don’t operate on the “expert model” that’s so common in healthcare. We don’t lecture, prescribe, or simply dispense advice. Instead, we empower you to make the choice for health, including healthier behaviors, for yourself. Although a health coach can occasionally step out of the coaching role and serve as an educator, providing you with helpful, supportive resources on nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle when asked.
- Six out of 10 adults in the United States have a chronic disease, and four in 10 have two or more conditions. The majority of those chronic illnesses are caused by diet, lifestyle, and behavior—not genetics. Changing those lifestyle factors has the potential to prevent and reverse chronic disease on a large scale. With chronic illness, most care is self-care. Even so, research shows us that change is difficult. In fact, only 6 percent of Americans engage in the top five health behaviors. There’s a lot of room for improvement, but that’s where health coaches come in. Health coaches work directly with their clients to give support to them as they embrace those healthy lifestyle strategies.
- Can also act as a liaison between the clinician and the patient, often improving the understanding of the changes recommended by the clinician. Therefore increasing the percentage for everlasting change.
- The role of a health coach is centered on supporting his or her clients’ efforts to grow and change. The health coach’s main focus is on helping others reach their self-developed health goals.
- Helping clients develop their own health goals and action steps based on their own life. Specializing to each client.
- Encourage clients to mobilize their own insight, internal strengths, and external resources to make sustainable, healthy changes
- Work with individuals or groups to facilitate the behavior change process
- Act as accountability partners to help clients reach their health goals
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