What does an IIN Health Coach do?

By Insitute for Integrative Nutrition  

What is a Health Coach?

A Health Coach is a supportive mentor and wellness authority. They help others feel their best through individualized food and lifestyle changes that meet their unique needs and health goals. Often times, [Health Coaches] provide their services in private coaching practices, either working one-on-one with clients or and facilitating a group coaching program.

Health coaching isn’t about one diet or one way of living. Health Coaches from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) focus on bioindividuality – the idea that we’re all different and have unique dietary, lifestyle, emotional, and physical needs. This means that we don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach to health and wellness. Health Coaches work with clients to help them discover how to fuel their bodies, live a healthy lifestyle, and become the healthiest, happiest versions of themselves by finding exactly what works for them.

What Does a Health Coach Do?

Health Coaches emphasize health beyond the plate by focusing on nourishment through primary foods, one of IIN's core curriculum concepts that means there are areas of your life that impact your short- and long-term health just as much as the food you eat, such as your relationships, career, spirituality, physical activity, and environment.

Integrative Nutrition Health Coaches incorporate these concepts of bio-individuality and primary food - along with over 100 dietary theories and coaching methods and tools explored… to take a proactive and holistic approach to health. Whether creating their own coaching business, working alongside a physician, or embarking on a different wellness path, Health Coaches contribute to the greater health care field by guiding people to make healthier lifestyle choices.