What is Health and Nutrition Coaching?
Health and nutrition coaching is a series of one-to-one or group conversations, behavioural exercises, health assessments and nutrition/health education sessions designed to help you develop and reach your health goals. The coach provides the framework for these conversations along with non-judgmental space, time, insight and most importantly nutrition and health expertise to allow you to explore your emotions, behaviours, values and limiting beliefs that might be holding you back. Coaching helps you to generate step by step strategies to reach your health goals and solutions to solve any road blocks.
Do you ever wonder what you could achieve if you had a dedicated nutrition expert in your life who genuinely believed in you and was dedicated to your success ? That's a health coach!
Benefits of Health Coaching
Great health coaching produces immeasurable life-long benefits as it involves a complete shift in your mindset and attitude to health. Through health coaching, you achieve a new level of awareness about yourself that allows you to be more disciplined, motivated and in control of your health and lifestyle which ultimately leads to improved health, mood, body image (regardless of your size or shape) , sleep and energy and stress levels.
The benefits of health coaching are immeasurable and completely unique to each person but below are just some of the benefits you can expect;
- Increased clarity and direction
- Effective strategies to reach your goals
- Nutrition and health advice from a registered and accredited professional
- Increased awareness about your behaviours and beliefs
- Decrease in negative self talk and Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANT's)
- Results and action focused accountability
- Endless encouragement and support
- Illumination of behaviours or thought patterns you were not aware of
- A safe non judgmental space to share and really be listened to
- Increased motivation and zest for life (Check out our upcoming health motivation workshop)
Areas where health coaching can help
Areas you can work on depend on the health coach. I am a registered clinical nutritionist so am qualified to advise on a number of diseases and disorders such as high blood pressure, diabetes, IBS, Obesity, PCOS, Reflux etc. I have a keen interest in and experience with helping technology companies and people who work in tech to improve their general health and wellness, having worked in tech myself for many years I have a unique understanding of the environment and it's health challenges.
Below are just some of the areas of your health and wellness that might come up in sessions or be part of our goal plans.
- Managing, improving and reversing health challenges specific to the tech industry
- Confidence/ self esteem and body image (health at every size)
- Improving and maintaining your motivation
- Improving sleep quality and quantity
- Increasing energy and improving your mood
- Stress reduction
- Weight loss or gain strategies
- Improving your gut health (this has major positive knock on effects)
- Detecting and correcting nutrient deficiencies
- Setting sustainable goals that are right for you and your environment (effective goal setting)
- Managing lifestyle related illnesses (high blood pressure, diabetes, IBS, Obesity, PCOS, Reflux etc)
How does health coaching work?
Health coaching sessions are hugely beneficial in giving you the regular space and time to reflect on your thoughts, behaviour and progress, get advice and keep yourself accountable. Being actively listened to for an hour a week by a trained professional is great BUT health coaching is about action. It's the practical application of the theory and skills learned in coaching to your life outside each week that matters most.
I will help you to achieve your health goals. I do this by listening to you intently, completing a health assessment, making recommendations, educating you around all things diet and health, asking powerful & thought provoking questions, keeping you accountable and sometimes by challenging you. Your success is my ultimate goal and sometimes this needs me to reflect back to you things you might not like such as behaviours, thought patterns or an outside perspective. These are some of the most valuable things I can do for you.
I work with high potential clients who are truly ready to invest in themselves, ready to be open minded, explore new ways of thinking and ready to change. Although I believe 100% in my abilities, coaches sometimes aren't a good fit for some clients and that's ok! If this is the case, I will refer you to where you will find the most success.
Health coaching is a collaboration. Below outlines what each of our responsibilities are to ensure you have the most success possible.
Coaches Responsibilities;
- To be present and actively listening in every session
- To remain non-judgmental at all times
- To give regular feedback
- To have your best interest in mind at all times
- To challenge you when needed
- To provide you with dedicated support and encouragement
- To maintain my qualifications and coaching skills with regular CPD and supervision
- To maintain my nutrition qualifications and skills with up to date and regular CPD
- To adhere to both the EMCC's and the Association for Nutritions code of ethics
- To refer out to another professional such as a GP/therapist/dietician if I feel that is what's best for you
Clients Responsibilities;
- To attend scheduled sessions on time
- To complete the actions you set for yourself each week in previous sessions
- To stay open minded throughout the process and be open to trying new things
- To maintain openness and honestly with me throughout
- To commit to and invest in yourself completely during this process (and always! )
