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Integrative Health and Wellness Coaching

Integrative Health and Wellness Coaching—different from psychotherapy, health education, disease management, personal training, or nutritional counseling—helps people build self-awareness, take action steps to strengthen and heal, and create a sustainable plan for thriving, taking into account their whole self.

Health Coaches can have a dramatic impact on positive change and healthy habits. This fast-growing field is well on its way to . Health and Wellness Coaching has been shown to be an effective intervention for health-related behavior change in both the prevention and treatment of obesity, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, and more. Health coaches are becoming more common in primary care clinics, insurance-based programs, fitness facilities, disease management programs, wellness programs, and academic institutions. 

Our students have a 100% pass rate on qualifying exams and our alumni are transforming health outcomes for people around the world. 

Programs that fit your life Become an Integrative Health and Wellness Coach

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Minor in Integrative Health and Wellness Coaching

¶¶Òõ̽̽'s 15-credit Integrative Health and Wellness Coaching Minor prepares students to work with employee wellness programs, community health teams, youth and families, people recovering from addiction, veterans, people with disabilities, and more. Open to students across disciplines.
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Minor in Integrative Health

Students from any discipline can minor in Integrative Health through nine credits of required courses and six credits of electives selected from the areas of mindfulness, behavior change, yoga, and integrative nutrition, and herbalism.
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Ph.D. in Interprofessional Health Sciences

In the Doctor of Philosophy in Interprofessional Health Sciences degree program, students benefit from customized research and teaching opportunities across fields in the biomedical and psychosocial domains and learn the ways health science impacts the functioning of individuals and society.
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Why become a Health and Wellness Coach?

Research shows health and wellness coaches make a difference in people's lives. Interventions contribute to a:

- 23% reduction in perceived stress levels
- 50% reduction in depressive scores
- statistically significant decrease in blood sugar levels, BMI, and dietary fat

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