Using this information a wellness coach is able to come up with a for lowering those health risks and improving a person’s quality of life.  Common areas a wellness coach might help are;  stress management, cholesterol levels, weight loss programs, ergonomics and diet / nutritional counseling. Good wellness coaches motivate the clients to create goals, improve their health status and ultimately have a healthier, fuller life.

Core Wellness Coaching Components

• Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
• Diet & Nutrition
• Disease Management
• Family & Marital Relationships
• Physical Fitness Education
• Pre-and Post-natal Wellness Programs
• Smoking Cessation, Tobacco Cessation and Prevention
• Stress Management Programs
• Walking and Exercise
• Weight Loss and Weight Management
• Work/Life Balance

Wellness coaches interact with clients in a wide range of ways.  Some of the ways include; face-to-face meetings, telephone calls, video conferencing, instant messaging and via email.   Good wellness coaches offer many of the above modes of contact.  The reason is simple – to be as accommodating and to make it as easy as possible for the person being coached to get the help and support they need to make changes and reach their goals.

Wellness coaches – good ones – have many different tools at their disposal to help their clients.  Many offer a full set of online wellness tools to help educate their clients, record goals and track the changes being made by their client.  It’s vital to make sure that the information provide to a wellness coach is secure – both online and in their office.  Not all wellness coaches do a good job with this so it falls to the client to make sure that they’ve verified the safety protocols used by their wellness coach.

Regularly schedule calls or appointments with your wellness coach are to be expected.  The frequency and type of interaction depends largely on what’s wanted by the client.  Some want / need more interaction with their wellness coach while others prefer to have less interaction.

Why Health and Wellness Coaching?

For most working Americans life can be super busy – to say the least.  With all the responsibilities, obligations and priorities in life most people have little time to take care of themselves – even though their doctor might be telling that they need to lose weight, exercise more, eat better, etc.

We all know that we should take better care of ourselves, but how do we make the time to change?  That’s where a wellness coach or health coach comes into play.  These professionals are experts at helping us to make the changes we need to make.

A wellness coach or health coach is a person trained to help you get to a state or wellness and/or keep you there. Coaches are trained to help people change their lifestyle related behaviors that put us at risk for many bad health conditions. They understand the difficulties that people face when considering these types of changes and are able to offer viable solutions to help people make those difficult changes.

Among other things, coaches can help with getting you more active, eating better, reducing stress, smoking cessation and many, many other areas.

Unlike personal trainers, nutritionists and other professionals – good coaches tend to offer multiple ways of communicating with and helping people. Good coaches usually interact with people in-person, via telephone, email, instant messaging and video conferencing. Most good coaches work to be convenient, accommodating and flexible while being super effective.

Does a Wellness Coach Tell You What To Do?

No, a good coach provides people with the right information in a way that the person decides they want to make a change. This approach works far better than the typical medical model. Meaning, when you visit a doctor they tend to “tell” you that you need to change. Coaching, when done correctly is vastly different. By providing information and asking the right questions a good coach helps a person reach their own conclusion that they need to change. The person being coached then thinks it’s their idea to change. When that happens the success rate of any program is always higher.