What is Health Coaching?
Your health is yours to steer. With healthcare constantly changing, knowing where to find trusted guidance is more important than ever. Everywhere you look – social media, books, websites – there’s advice. Health coaching is one option, but you might be wondering:
• What is a health coach?
• What do they actually do?
• Does it really work?
• Who can I trust?
Professional health and wellbeing coaching offers a safe, evidence-based, non-clinical approach to help you make lasting lifestyle and health behaviour changes – whether you’re aiming to prevent illness or manage long-term conditions
Take control. Make informed choices. Lead your health journey with confidence.
Your access to healthcare – the limiting reality
Across the UK and internationally, access to timely healthcare is becoming more challenging. With 1 in 3 people living with Pre-Diabetes, rising demand, system overwhelm, and the growing burden of long-term conditions mean that many people wait longer for appointments, have less time with their healthcare providers, and often feel unsure where to turn for support between visits. At the same time, we are being encouraged to take more responsibility for managing our own health. Lifestyle-related conditions are accounting for a significant proportion of healthcare need, yet traditional medical systems are not designed to provide preventive or ongoing lifestyle and health behaviour change support. This creates a gap between what people need and what the system can sustainably deliver.
This is where a trained, credentialled health coach comes in to help bridge the gap between medical care and making lifestyle and health behaviour changes stick in real life. By providing time, partnership and personalised guidance, a skilled and credentialled health coach supports you to identify what is important to you and build the knowledge, confidence, skills and lifestyle habits needed to take proactive ownership of your health. To take the lead on your health.
What is a Health Coach?
A skilled, credentialled health coach works in partnership with you to help you understand what’s important to you, identify your health goals, explore your motivations, overcome barriers and challenges, and build sustainable lifestyle and health behaviour changes. Health coaches do not diagnose, treat, or prescribe. Instead, they focus on empowerment, lifestyle and health behaviour change, and on supporting you to take informed, confident steps towards better wellbeing. Where clinical professionals often focus on “what is the matter with you,” health coaches focus on “what matters to you.” Their work complements clinical healthcare services by supporting motivation, accountability, and progress over time.
Whole health and wellbeing coaching is defined as a whole-person approach. recognising that health is shaped by far more than symptoms or diagnoses – encompassing lifestyle, environment, social connections, emotional resilience, and your personal values and sense of meaning and purpose. Whole health and wellbeing coaching helps you to understand your health in the context of your own life, identify what matters most to you, and make changes that support all aspects of your wellbeing. There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution: instead, as your health coach I will collaborate with you to build awareness, knowledge, skills, habits, and confidence that last well beyond the coaching sessions.
As a qualified, credentialled health coach, I have completed a formally recognised programme covering a core curriculum, including whole person health and wellbeing, lifestyle drivers of health, health behaviour change science, safe scope of practice, and ethical boundaries. I graduated from the College of Naturopathic Medicine (CNM) with a Diploma in Health Coaching and am a Registered Health Coach with The UK and International Health Coaching Association (UKIHCA.)
I uphold the highest of Professional Standards in Health Coaching and adhere to a UKIHCA Scope of Practice and professional Code of Conduct. I commit to meeting Continual Professional Development requirements annually. I hold a current DBS to work in settings with children, plus a relevant insurance policy to practice as a Health Coach.
