The Complete Guide to Hiring An Online Health & Wellness Coach
What is a health coach?
A health coach works with clients to improve their overall health and achieve their goals. After learning about you and your lifestyle, the coach designs an individualized plan containing small, achievable changes that create big impact on overall health. The health coach acts as a supportive mentor, cheerleader, and wellness authority, helping clients feel confident and empowered throughout the entire journey. A health coach focuses on the whole you.
What a health coach is not.
Health coaches are not doctors; therefore, they do not diagnose, treat, or prescribe.
What’s the difference between a nutritionist, a life coach, and a health coach?
Nutritionists focus primarily on food and nutrition, a life coach focuses on general lifestyle, and a health coach marries the two. Health coaches help develop individualized strategies for improving all areas of health, inclusive of lifestyle.
Are health coaches certified?
You do not need a certification to be a health coach, however, there are credible institutes where you can receive a certification. I am Certified from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
Do you need a health coach?
The NY Times says ‘Everyone Could Use a Health Coach’. Health coaches can help you improve every aspect of your life. We bring awareness to areas of your life that may be holding you back so you can release what no longer serves you and create new, healthy habits that fit in with your lifestyle. Do you need a health coach? No, but they can certainly help get you where you want to be.
What are the benefits of working with a health coach?
Confidence around food and lifestyle choices, body confidence, create sustainable changes, freedom from diet culture, release old patterns to make way for new habits, healthier food choices and clarity on what works best for you, reconnect with your intuition, weight loss, stress reduction, more satisfaction in relationships and career, develop more positive outlook on life, inspired for the future,
ability to recognize accomplishments, overall understanding of your body and how to function optimally, someone to lean on for support and accountability.
Results vary from person to person as each person is bio-individual and requires different needs.
Is hiring a health coach worth it?
Whatever your goal, a health coach actively listens to your concerns, helps you discover where and why you are struggling and supports you as you navigate the world of contradictory information to find what works best for YOU. So yes, I’d say health coaches are worth it.
What are the costs?
Rates can vary depending on location and training and can range from $200 - $1,000+ per session. Many coaches charge monthly and have a minimum commitment.
Does insurance cover health coaching?
Most insurances do not currently cover health coaching.
Ok I’m convinced, how can we work together?
I’m so glad you asked. Let’s start with a free Discovery Call to make sure we are a fit. During this call we’ll chat about where you are and where you want to be. From there, if it’s a mutual fit, we’ll schedule your first session. My program is 6-months; sessions are done virtually every other week for 50-minutes with text, email and/or voxer support between. You can book your free Discovery Call by clicking below. I can’t wait to connect with you.
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