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Wellness Coaching
What is Coaching?
While personal coaching is a proven paradigm for improving
athletic and executive performance, only now is it available to
support health and wellbeing. Certified coaches are trained to
apply core competencies of coaching psychology drawn from
evidence-based behavioral psychology, counseling, motivational
interviewing, positive psychology, adult learning theory, and
solution-oriented therapy. Clients think that having a coach
can help them move to a new place in their lives, and help them
make lasting changes happen. Having a coach is particularly
powerful when you decide to fully commit to making significant
changes in one or more areas of your life.
Definition of Coaching
• A close relationship and partnership with a coach,
providing the structure, accountability, expertise, and
inspiration to enable client to learn, grow, and develop beyond
what s/he can do alone.
• A coach helps the client identify and clarify
the priorities and areas for development.
• Coaches partner with their clients to help
them go from Point A to Point B and clients define Point B.
• Coaches employ a diverse array of assessment,
psychological, and behavior change tools to empower clients to
take charge, connect with their deepest motivators, and learn
how to grow and change.
• Scheduled coaching sessions, weekly or as
needed, by telephone or in person, individual or group, for
three months or longer to help clients clarify where they want
to go, and work with them to get there.
• Clients make sustainable changes in
self-understanding, self-concept, and behavior
What is Wellness
Coaching?
Wellness coaches
(including executive wellness coaches) work with
individuals to help them improve all areas of wellness including
fitness,
nutrition, weight, stress, health, and management of the life
issues that
impact wellness. Wellness coaches are health, fitness, and
mental health
professionals (e.g. fitness professionals, dietitians, nurses,
physical
therapists, health educators, physicians, psychotherapists) who
have also
completed wellness coach training and certifications from
leading
organizations including Wellcoaches Corporation, in partnership
with the
American College of Sports Medicine.
What should you
look for in a Wellness Coach?
• Top tier health,
fitness, and mental health university degrees and/or
credentials in physical fitness (exercise physiology),
rehabilitation,
nutrition/weight, health, and counseling/mental or behavioral
health.
• At least 2 years experience working one-on-one with clients
and patients
by phone or in-person.
• Wellness coach training/certification from leading
organizations,
including Wellcoaches Corporation, which teach coaching
psychology
skills (drawing from behavioral science, counseling,
motivational
interviewing, future-oriented therapy models, and life/corporate
coaching), and a standardized coaching methodology and process.
The
wellness coaching methodology should focus on delivering
sustained
health behavior change. |
