What is health coaching? How does it differ from other types of coaching, personal training or counseling?
Health coaching is a collaborative and personalized program that focuses on improving health and wellness. It builds an individual’s capacity to achieve short- and long-term health and fitness goals. Participants interact one-on-one with their coach by email and online journal. Unlike personal training or counseling, the participant is the expert with health coaching. Whether the individual is working toward general wellness or a more specific health-related issue, our focus is on enhancing quality of life, not on “fixing” a particular physical or emotional issue—although issues may become goals. Our coaches guide, motivate, provide customized resources, and help clients to set achievable goals. They do not diagnose, prescribe, or give advice. Our coaches use their expertise to provide clients with tools, not opinions. The coach’s role won’t be just to ask if clients have done their crunches for the day (although the coach will if you want him/her to); the coach’s role is to help clien
