What Is Health Coaching

What Is Health Coaching? The 4 Pillars That Define It

What is health coaching? It’s a client-centered, growth-fostering, thought-provoking approach that helps clients achieve health and well-being. Find out more about what health coaching is and the four pillars at the heart of it.

self coaching

Self-Coaching: 5 Tips to Coach Yourself through Change

Health coaches are experts at behavior change—and their methods work. Here’s how to apply a coaching methodology and self-coach into a new behavior or healthier habit.

health coaches and public health

What Is the Role of Health Coaches in Public Health?

Health coaches play a vital role in public health. Check out this article to find out what that role is, and learn why we need health coaches now more than ever.

Health coaching vs counseling

Health Coaching vs. Counseling: What’s the Difference?

Health coaching is not the same as counseling. Find out how these two disciplines are different in this article from health coach Kelli Saginak.

importance of social connection for doctors

The Importance of Social Connection for Functional Medicine Practitioners

Close social connections matter for us as healthcare practitioners—in our personal and professional lives. Find out how to cultivate a supportive professional network in the realm of Functional Medicine.

Health coaching examples

Health Coaching and Client Transformations: Health Coaching in Action

Health coaches are trained to help their clients recognize their strengths and tap into that potential to change. Read on for real-world examples of how health coaches help their clients transform their lives.

Health coach networking

Health Coach Networking: The Benefits of Connection and Collaboration for Coaches

Networking benefits health coaches. Find out how a professional health coach network can help you further your career and increase your job satisfaction.

“Therapist sitting across from a patient on a couch, listening attentively during a mental health consultation.

Functional Psychiatry: Treating Common Conditions with the Functional Approach

Functional psychiatry can successfully address the underlying causes of mental illness, improving long-term mental health outcomes for patients. Find out how, and get tips you can implement in your practice.

Health coach salary

Health Coach Salary: What You Need to Know

What’s the average health coach salary? Check out this article for information that can help you gauge how much you can expect to earn in this profession.

Powerful questions

What Are Powerful Questions? Health Coaching in Action

Powerful questions cross the space between a health coach and a client to invite understanding and possibility. Find out more about the difference that powerful questions can make in health coaching.

behavior change

Behavior Change Agents: How Health Coaches Help Clients Change

Health coaches help clients explore what changes they’re ready for, experiment with changes, and connect their goals to their long-term vision. Find out more about the behavior change techniques health coaches use to help clients.

How to become a health coach

How to Become a Health Coach in 4 Steps

Health coaches change lives and contribute to a healthier world—all while earning a living. Find out how to become a health coach and join this thriving field.

effective communication

Effective Communication: Health Coaching in Action

How well a coach connects with a client will determine whether they are a fit to work together, and effective communication is part of building that connection. Find out more from health coach MaryAnn Jones.

Positive psychology

Positive Psychology: How to Use It in Health Coaching

Positive psychology plays an important role in how health coaches work with their clients. Find out how to use positive psychology to support your clients.

SMART Goals for Health

Why It Makes Sense to Set SMART Goals for Health

Are you ready to take your health goals to the next level? Then read on for a little motivation and to discover how to use SMART goals for health.

successful health coaches

What Successful Health Coaches Need: The 5 Cs

How do you become a successful health coach? By choosing the right training program. In this article, health coach Will Welch talks about the five Cs that make a successful coach—and an effective training program.

Lyme disease diet and nutrition

Help Clients Recover from Lyme Disease with Diet and Nutrition

Lyme disease can be debilitating, but simple dietary changes can help. Find out how, as a dietitian or CNS, you can help your clients with Lyme disease ease their symptoms using a nutritional approach.

Time management strategies

12 Time Management Strategies for Your Functional Medicine Practice

Effective time management strategies can help you run your Functional Medicine practice—without running yourself into the ground. Here’s how to find the time to make a big difference in the world without compromising your health.

The power of listening

The Power of Listening: Health Coaching in Action

What’s the power of listening in health coaching? It gives clients the gifts of understanding, acceptance, and trust. In this Q&A, we get to the heart of listening and hearing others.

What Is a Health Coach?

What Is a Health Coach?

Health coaches are among the most important healthcare partners for people battling chronic disease. Find out how health coaches help clients set and achieve health goals and build new habits.