What is health coaching?

There was once a time when doctors felt like family. They knew you by name, made house calls, and remembered birthdays. They spent more than eight minutes with a patient, which is sadly the current national average of a doctor’s visit.

Health coaching offers that lost relationship. It provides a consistent, attentive and focused conversation about your wellbeing, your body, and your day-to-day life.

Unfortunately, most conventional medical systems show you to the door once the appointment is over. I've sat in my car after too many doctor's appointments thinking, I need to make changes, but how?

That's why I like to think of health coaching as the ‘how to’ of healthcare.

My method approaches wellness from an integrative, big-picture perspective, addressing all areas of life, including your career, relationships, physical activity, stress reduction and spirituality.

Health coaching is your daily dose of preventative medicine, the way out of chronic, systemic issues, and the steady accountability you need build sustainable habits that will carry you forward for the rest of your life.

Here’s a rundown of my health coaching scope of practice.

As a health coach, I DO: 

  • Help my clients get crystal clear on what would be supportive to help them reclaim their health and create a plan for how to get there!

  • Encourage my clients to be the authority on their bodies and their healthcare choices

  • Offer strategies for making order of the social, financial, emotional and physical chaos that can come with chronic illness

  • Shape up one’s diet. I offer ways to ‘crowd out’ food choices like caffeine, sugar, alcohol, tobacco, junk, food, dairy

  • Companion my clients with compassion, understanding and accountability - I have been there!

As a health coach, I DON'T

  • Claim to diagnose or cure diseases or work with people with complex, advanced diseases like cancer or organ failure

  • Work with minors without written authorization from their legal guardian

  • Suggest clients stop or change prescription medications or stop seeing their doctor

  • Exclude major food groups or recommend extreme detox programs

  • Recommend controversial supplements or very high doses

  • Encourage vigorous exercise without consulting their physician

  • Promote divorce or conflict with their friends and family

  • Recommend that clients quit their jobs

  • Advise clients to change religious affiliation

  • Call myself a Registered Dietician or Nutritionist