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HEALTH COACHES SAVE PRACTITIONERS VALUABLE TIME AND MONEY

 

  • Increase your revenue potential by outsourcing the time-consuming tasks of patient support, motivation, and education, and freeing up your time available for diagnosing, explaining labs, and doing the work you love as a doctor

  • Empower your patients to improve their own health through lifestyle change, and provide more holistic treatment through collaborative care.

  • Ensure your patients understand their care plan and your recommendations. A health coach works closely with them to implement the complex lifestyle changes often required to make significant health improvements.

  • Improve patient outcomes and compliance through personalized support and accountability provided by their coach.

Functional Medicine Health Coaches Add Value to Medical Practices

“Smart doctors, who understand the value of lifestyle in preventing and treating disease, often employ health coaches to help them offer a higher level of personalized care.”
— James Maskell, Author of "The Evolution of Medicine"

Personalized Care

It all starts with helping patients feel their best. When people feel well they bring their best to their families, jobs, and communities. A health coach provides unconditional positive regard for their clients and uses motivational interviewing to explain lifestyle connections to chronic illness, answer questions about details of a treatment plan, and much more.

Credentialed, Qualified, and Continuing to Learn

  • Board Certified by the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaches

  • Graduate of Functional Medicine Coaching Academy

  • Currently completing the Intuitive Eating Counselor Certification Program

  • Adept at mind-body techniques, anxiety and stress management, positive psychology, motivational interviewing, mindfulness, character strengths, etc.

  • Listens to the patient’s story and becomes an ally

  • Co-creates a wellness plan, provides follow-up and accountability

“Health coaching is a team-based approach that helps patients gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to become active participants in their care. The old saying, ‘Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for a lifetime’ demonstrates the difference between rescuing a patient and coaching a patient. Patients with chronic conditions need to learn how to fish. Health coaching can be supplemented with health literacy strategies and effective communication techniques, such as ask-tell-ask, teach-back and/or action planning to ensure patient comprehension of their care plans and help them achieve their goals.”
— American Medical Association

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Research supports the effectiveness of health coaching

Health Coaches can guide patients to make the lifestyle changes you recommend.

Illness has a context of environment and lifestyle, yet patients rarely follow through on recommended changes. Health coaching can close the gap between intention and behavior.

How Patient Care Improves When Doctors and Health Coaches Collaborate

What Patients Can Expect

  • Valuable virtual sessions and accountability support

  • Easy payment

  • Board Certified and Insured

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