UK & International Health Coaching Association is the leading professional body for health coaches in the UK and internationally. We are an independent, non-profit organisation, operating in the third (independent) sector, with no commercial ties.
We want to see:
- A self-empowered population, managing their health and wellbeing to thrive in life.
- A Registered Health Coach in every public and private health care setting, in education, workplaces, physical activity settings education and in communities.
We believe that:
- People’s capacity for change makes true health and wellbeing within everybody’s reach and that people deserve the time, consideration and space necessary to help them unlock their own capacity for healing and to become self-empowered architects in their own health
- A ‘whole-health’ approach which considers not only the bio-psycho-emotional-social-environmental and the multiple wider determinants of health, but also the existential/spiritual wholeness of purpose and meaning that is a human life, is fundamental to sustaining lifestyle and behaviour change
- Collaboration, partnership, trust, respect and an absence of judgement lay at the heart of all relationships and of good governance.
We are dedicated to:
- Raising the awareness and understanding of all parts of society, of the role of health coaching as a powerful, evidence-based modality for preventing, and potentially reversing, chronic, lifestyle-related conditions
- Advancing professionalism in health coaching and supporting the provision and development of high-quality health coaching education and training
- Setting and maintaining robust education, training and course delivery standards for health coaching training programmes
- Approving health, wellness and wellbeing training programmes which meet our robust standards
- Advancing the development of health coaching knowledge and skills education in related healthcare modalities and in every sector where health coaching happens
- Supporting the continuing professional development and career progression of health coaches.
UKIHCA Registered Health Coaches and UKIHCA Full Members are qualified and credentialled health coaches, a number of whom are medically and clinically qualified health professionals, who are uniquely equipped with the knowledge and skills to support and self-empower individuals to make sustainable lifestyle and behaviour changes to improve their health outcomes.
Our Affiliate Members are an increasing number of adjunct Health Professionals aligned with our purpose, vision and mission.
“No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.”
– Billie Jean King
Together, we will change the world.