What is a Functional Medicine Health Coach?
Functional Medicine health coaching is client-centered, meaning I focus on your needs and goals before anything else. As a health coach and chef, I help my clients manage chronic conditions, increase movement, and generally improve physical and mental health. I share recipes and kitchen tips through zoom and custom videos to inspire more enthusiastic home cooking.
Health coaches are change agents. I support and empower my clients as they make positive diet and lifestyle changes. Health coaching has the power to turn the tide of the chronic disease epidemic—and change the world. My clients love the fact that I am a chef who knows how to make delicious food fast with wellness in mind.
With so many opportunities for coaching to make a difference, it’s no wonder that the demand for health coaches is growing.
Health coaching is a partnership between coaches and clients that guides clients toward the changes that they want to make. Coaches and clients develop a relationship built on trust and respect that allows them to explore clients’ values, reasons for change, and what’s possible.
As a health coach, I understand how habits form, I know how to reverse them, and I specialize in helping people overcome obstacles in pursuit of their goals. As part of a collaborative care team that includes Functional Medicine practitioners and other allied health providers, I support my clients as they make positive changes.
Health coaches are experts on human behavior, motivation, and health. They are “change agents” who help their clients set and achieve health goals and build new habits. How do they do this?
• Coaches help people discover the “why” behind their desired health change
• They empower people as experts on their own bodies, minds, and circumstances
• They help people identify challenges and blind spots that are preventing change
• They provide support and accountability
• They use their broad knowledge of health and wellness to help people navigate a variety of health concerns
No other health profession has this unique skill set. That is why health coaching fills a critical gap in our healthcare system and why health coaches are increasingly in demand.
They can be a critical interpreter and patient advocate for people dealing with a medical system that has less and less time to listen or explain how to implement treatment plans.
And health coaches don’t just work with the least healthy members of the population. They can support people with any number of health challenges and goals, from restarting an exercise regimen or getting into peak physical shape to reducing stress, cooking more, learning new healthy ingredients, managing diabetes, implementing autoimmune protocols, or losing weight.