A UKIHCA Full Member and Registered Health Coach (Health, Wellness and Wellbeing Coach) is a whole-health professional and expert in lifestyle and behaviour change, partnering with clients or patients who want to make sustainable lifestyle changes to improve their whole-health and wellness.
For UKIHCA Full Members and Registered Health Coaches (RHC), the practice of health coaching is underpinned by a formal definition…
“Health and Wellness Coaching is a client-led, collaborative process that aims to promote self-management, self-empowerment and equip an individual to adapt positively to their internal and external environment to create a state of resilience through the pursuit of activities and a lifestyle that cultivates their whole-health continuum.”
In practice, this means that:
UKIHCA Full Members and RHCs facilitate a client or patient’s self-empowered ability to respond and adapt positively to challenges to their health environment, supporting them to develop the confidence to make conscious, sustainable lifestyle choices and pursue activities that support that individual to achieve their whole-health potential.
UKIHCA Full Members and RHCs understand that each individual is unique and takes a wide-angle lens to consider a wide variety of lifestyle factors which can either support or undermine health. For example: whether we have purpose and meaning in our lives; what, when and how we eat: whether and how we move, sleep, rest and play; how we manage stress; the impact of our relationships and social connections; and not least, the nature and quality of the cultural, social and commercial and ecological environment in which we live.
UKIHCA Full Members and RHCs understand and respect that each client or patient is an expert on their own life and is a non-judgemental ally, supporting, educating and motivating them to find sustainable ways to break through resistance in their journey to whole health.
UKIHCA Full Members and RHCs are qualified, credentialed professionals who uphold the highest of Professional Standards in Health Coaching and who commit to adhering to a UKIHCA Scope of Practice, meeting our Continual Professional Development requirements and upholding our professional Code of Conduct.
Our free Guide to Health Coaching explains:
- The role of the UK & International Health Coaching Association
- How we are all unique and want better health
- How we want to change but need support
- The concept of ‘whole-health’ coaching
- Is Health Coaching for you?
- What to expect from a UKIHCA Full Member and RHC?
- How to choose the right Health Coach for you
- How to make the most of your health investment
- What a Health Coach is not
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