What Is A Health Coach?

Health coaching is a rapidly growing field that focuses on guiding individuals towards healthier lives, to protect their health now and in the future.

It includes a wide range of health and well-being behaviours. While diet and exercise are vital aspects of living a healthy lifestyle, they aren’t the sole focus of health that coaches concentrate on. Health coaches assist individuals in various areas including nutrition, stress management, sleep optimisation, chronic disease management and making comprehensive lifestyle chances. They recognise that emotional well-being, stress and anxiety levels, sleep patterns and other factors play critical roles in overall health. They adopt a holistic approach, addressing various aspects to help clients achieve their goals.

A health coach is trained to educate, empower and support clients to make positive health changes, improve their health and take control of their life. Using a range of specialist coaching tools and techniques, a health coach works with clients to set realistic goals that can easily be achieved and sustained.

How do health coaches support the medical profession? 

Doctor’s surgeries are becoming increasingly inundated with patients who need extra support to make dietary and lifestyle changes and improve their health. 

Health coaches collaborate with health care providers and complement their medical care. They are not licensed medical professionals and will not diagnose, prescribe treatments or offer medical advice. Health coaches trained by the College of Naturopathic Medicine are accredited by the NHS Personalised Care Institute. 

How can a health coach help you?

There are lots of different reasons why you might want to work with a health coach. There could be something you specifically want to address, such as energy levels, weight loss, digestive issues or have help with things like heavy, painful periods, peri-menopause or PCOS. Maybe you want to address something more general, such as how to age healthily, the effects of food and environmental toxins on your body or how to priorities your health within your busy lifestyle.