About
HEALTH COACHING
What does a health coach do?
Health coaches are professionally trained to assist you to achieve your wellness goals. We are dedicated to helping you manage chronic conditions, lose weight, reduce stress, and enhance your sleep quality. Health coaches recognise the importance of connection and purpose to wellbeing, and bring this to the fore in the health coaching process.
Health coaches believe that you have the answers to your health and wellness issues. We tap into your inner strengths and work together to dismantle any self-limiting beliefs and obstacles in your path. With our focused, future-oriented approach, you can expect to remarkable results in just 12-15 sessions. Let's take this transformative journey toward optimal wellness together!
How do health coaches work?
Health coaches are experts in creating feasible, sustainable, measurable, and exciting health goals based on the latest research and interventions. Accountability is a core component of health coaching, with coaches serving as partners to ensure progress towards goals. Health coaches work with a biopsychosocial approach, recognising the interconnectedness between our bodies, psyches, and social environments. Whether in-person or online, health coaching are now recognised as being highly effective and cost efficient in minimising health risks and optimising wellness. Most health coaches have hybrid practices with clients worldwide.
Are health coaches an alternative to conventional medicine?
Coaching is effective for people managing a variety of health conditions. Recent scienfic studies have demonstrated that health coaching yields many positive results that can be monitored through multiple biomarker risk factors (including systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, fasting glucose, body weight, body mass index, waist circumference, and cardiorespiratory fitness). It is now common for GPs and specialists to refer to health coaches for the management of chronic illness and weight loss. Not all health coaches use biomarkers. I am inclined to use them as I feel they provide us with a good picture of your health and allow us to track progress.
Health coaches have a very clear scope of practice. They know when to refer and have their own professional associations and ethical guidelines. A good health coach is clear about when an issue is out of their scope and has a network of health practitioners they trust to refer you to.