What is a Health Coach?
A Health Coach is a wellness professional whose main objective is to guide clients to reach their health and wellness goals, whether that’s sleeping better, increasing energy levels, weight management, coping with stress, and more. Health Coaches create a safe space for their clients to explore their health, facilitating behaviour and lifestyle change that can be sustained for the long-term.
Using their nutrition and coaching education, Health Coaches help their clients discover which foods and lifestyle choices makes them feel best. Most importantly, Health Coaches take a holistic approach to health, not just focusing on food, but also all the other areas of life that can support and nourish your overall health, such as career, spirituality, relationships, and environment.
Health Coaches can work with clients one-on-one or in group settings, or alongside other healthcare professionals such as medical doctors, chiropractors, therapists, and nurses. Health Coaches play a pivotal role in the greater healthcare team, filling the void that is often left by doctors who don’t necessarily have time to provide nutrition and coaching guidance.
How can a health coach help me?
A Health Coach works with clients to create a space of clarity. In this space clients identify their goals, values, strengths and tap into their own knowledge and experience to develop the approach to change in which they are most likely to succeed. A Health Coach provides knowledge for the client to consider, and skills to provide motivation and support to facilitate long term change. I use my training as a Health Coach and my experience as a mum with a child who suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome to support clients to make positive change in their lives.
What are your qualifications?
Annette Ford is an ADAPT Certified Functional Health Coach. This qualification, obtained through the Kresser Institute, required the completion of a Functional Health Coach course, including motivational interviewing, positive psychology, trans theoretical model for change, non-violent communications and functional medicine approach to nutrition, movement, stress management and sleep. Annette is also an Accredited Health and Wellness Coach with the Health Coaches Australia and New Zealand Association.
What does a coaching session look like?
Coaching sessions take place via video conferencing, telephone or face-to-face. Clients are supported to identify their goals and explore values, character strengths and potential solutions. The outcome is an action plan which is reviewed and adjusted if necessary, at the follow-on session.
How can I work with you?
Book a free half hour discovery call here. This chat is not a coaching session, but rather an opportunity to discover whether health coaching will fit your specifics needs and whether we are a good coaching fit.
