What can a Health Coach do for me?

A Health Coach can help you: 

• Set long and short term goals
  
• Create an action plan that is doable and enjoyable 
  
• Track your progress 
  
• Identify potential barriers
  
• Develop strategies to utilize your strengths most effectively and maximize your potential to achieve desired outcome
  
• Maintain accountability
  
• Motivate and inspire you
  
• Provide ongoing support and guidance

Should I Hire a Health Coach?

Despite numerous advantages of working with a Health Coach, at the end of the day, its one more expense.  For many, the final decision boils down to whether or not the benefits are worth the cost.  To help you determine whether or not hiring a health coach would be worth it for you, consider the following questions  -

• What do you want to achieve related to your health? 
  
• How important is achieving this goal to you?
  
• What will achieving this goal benefit you?
  
•  How will your desired outcome affect other areas of your life, health and wellness? 
  
• What are the costs of not reaching your goal?
  
• What is your track record on independently achieving your goals?
  
• Would coaching support make it more likely for you to achieve your goals?

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What is Health Coaching?

Health Coaching, as defined by Wikipedia, is

... a process that facilitates healthy, sustainable behavior change by challenging a client to listen to their inner wisdom, identify their values, and transform their goals into action. Health coaching draws on the principles of positive psychology and the practices of motivational interviewing and goal setting. (source)

It help individuals gain the knowledge, skills, tools and confidence to become active participants in their care so that they can reach their self-identified health goals.  

“The primary objectives of health coaching are to educate the patient regarding self health management and to encourage patients in taking a more proactive role in staying healthy.”-Medical Economics, Nov 2010

What is a Health Coach?

A Health Coach is a wellness authority and supportive mentor who motivates individuals to cultivate positive health choices.  

Five Specific Roles of a Health Coach

Health Coaches educate and support clients to achieve their health goals through lifestyle and behavior adjustments.  They provide clients with ongoing guidance, a sense of accountability and continuous motivation to help them achieve their wellness goals and eliminate unhealthy behaviors in their lives.

What are the benefits of  Health Coaching?

"There is no one in the healthcare system who has the job or the expertise to actually help people make the lifestyle and behavior changes that they want to make. It is hard to change engrained behaviors..... The Health Coach is trained to help people clarify their personal health goals and achieve them..."   (source)

Health Coaches bridge the gap between physicans and patients by fulfilling the  unmet need in the healthcare system for a provider who works with patients in the days and weeks between appointments. 

Physicians don’t have enough time to spend with their patients going over nutrition, lifestyle and stress reduction,” says Kerrie Martin, a holistic health and nutrition counselor and founder of health coaching practice Live In Rhythm. “Health coaches serve to fill that gap.”  (source)