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Sharon Krisanovski
Art â–² Travel â–² Wellness â–² Aerial arts
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Do you know what creates the gap between what people say they want and what they actually achieve?
"A wellness coach can close this gap providing guidance, support and mentorship which empowers clients to take responsibility for their health and achievement of their personal wellness goals."
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Combining theory from Coaching Psychology, Behaviour Change and Positive Psychology, clients overcome resistance to change by using a step by step, structured approach. Wellness coaches support clients in working out what they want in life, why they want it, what’s stopping them and only then together create a plan for action.
Through this supportive relationship, Wellness Coaches empower their clients with focus on facilitation, rather than prescription. The client then takes responsibility, feels more confident as they experience small successes and ultimately achieves more significant change than they would on their own.
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A Health Coach does not take the place of a medical practitioner by diagnosing, treating, or taking responsibility for bringing about wellness changes in a client’s life; rather, a Health Coach encourages positive changes within client-driven wellness goals.
Health Coaches have a strong focus on behavioral choices along with the basic understanding of dietary patterns and overall health, fulfilling an important and distinct role that compliments the tasks of health professionals and works harmoniously to develop strategies that enact real, lasting lifestyle changes.
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what is Wellness coaching? & Why hire a coach?​
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEALTH COACHESAND THERAPISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, &MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
While Health Coaches, therapists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals all specialize in listening, their approaches differ.
Unlike a therapist who may ask targeted questions and use mental health tools to analyze, diagnose, and treat mental health behaviors, a Health Coach simply serves as an active and supportive listener; utilizing various core coaching skills to ask questions that allow a client to discover their own challenges and solutions. While a therapist may hash into one’s past to examine unhealthy thought patterns and influences, a Health Coach focuses on the present, highlights a client’s strengths, and helps them to make immediate lifestyle changes.
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While traditional medical professionals play specific roles in contributing to an individual’s overall wellness, the current healthcare model fails to bring about lasting healthy lifestyle changes. Physicians, nurses, dietitians, and other healthcare professionals serve crucial functions but may not have the time or intent to discuss other factors that prevent clients from carrying out their wellintentioned recommendations.
Over 80% of preventable disease riskfactors are influenced by behaviors likesmoking, chronic stress, poor diet orlack of exercise, why are we so unsuccessfulat changing these behaviors?
Health Coaches serve a unique function that fills this void. These professionals can be efficiently trained in just one year to promote core, foundational health concepts to individuals all over the world and to support them in making sustainable lifestyle changes. With a strong focus on behavioral choices along with the basic understanding of dietary patterns and overall health, Health Coaches fulfill an important and
distinct role that does not rely on an advanced degree in medicine, nutrition science, or dietetics.
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Health Coaches do not directly compete with other healthcare providers; rather they complement all health professionals – including dietitians,
nutritionists, nurses, doctors, and mental health professionals.
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Health Coaches help clients develop targeted goals and a viable plan for carrying out regimens prescribed by their medical professionals, as well as enacting basic, health-supportive modifications and habits. By supporting real-world lifestyle and behavioral changes, Health Coaches play a crucial
part in health maintenance, disease prevention, and even disease reversal – supporting the concerted mission of all healthcare professionals to increase health and quality of life.
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