From a wellness coach, you can expect a collaborative relationship. This relationship is focused on helping you set and achieve health goals through a personalized plan, support, and accountability. A coach will not provide clinical or medical advice. However, they will work with you to understand obstacles, build sustainable habits, and develop a deeper connection to your body’s needs.

What You Can Expect:

• Goal Setting: 
  • You will partner with your coach to set realistic, personalized wellness goals related to fitness, nutrition, stress management, sleep, or other health-related behaviors.
• Personalized Planning: 
  • The coach will help you create a lifestyle-integrated plan to reach your goals, focusing on practical, manageable steps.
• Expert Guidance: 
  • Coaches provide expert knowledge and share techniques for sustainable behavior change, drawing from psychology and life coaching principles.
• Support and Motivation: 
  • You’ll receive ongoing support, encouragement, and accountability to help you stay on track, especially during challenging times.
• Obstacle Identification: 
  • Your coach will help you identify and navigate barriers that stand in the way of achieving your goals.
• Holistic Perspective: 
  • A wellness coach takes a holistic approach, considering various factors like food choices, relationships, and environment (primary food) in addition to physical health.
• Regular Check-ins: 
  • Expect regular sessions (often weekly) and possibly quick daily check-ins via text or email to maintain connection and progress.

What You Should Not Expect:

• Clinical Advice: 
  • A wellness coach is not a therapist or physician and does not prescribe medication or provide clinical treatment.
• Direct Instructions: 
  • Coaches do not dictate what you “should” do but instead empower you to become an expert in your own health by exploring what works best for you, a concept called bio-individuality.
• Quick Fixes: 
  • The focus is on fostering lasting changes and developing healthy habits over time.

Wellness coaches partner with you to cultivate transformative, healthy habits and preventive behaviors that enhance your overall wellness. They are your accountability allies! Guiding you to uncover the root causes of unhealthy behaviors and empowering you to implement lasting solutions. Embracing a holistic approach, they emphasize the vital pillars of lifestyle medicine: nutrition, movement, emotional well-being, stress management, sleep, a substance-free lifestyle, hydration, and the joy of the outdoors.

The greatest advantage? Your wellness coach is an integral part of your care team. Similar to your doctor or counselor, your sessions with a wellness coach are confidential. At Harmony Hollow Wellness, our certified wellness coache is recognized by the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching! This ensures you are receiving expert guidance on your journey to wellness.

How can a wellness coach help me?

A wellness coach addresses wellness from a holistic perspective, potentially working with individuals on a single aspect of their lifestyle or multiple areas through tailored guidance and specific programming. These programs concentrate on individual aspects of wellness and their broader effects on bodily functions.

At Harmony Hollow Wellness, programs led by wellness coaches include:

• Sleep – Helps clients improve their sleeping habits
• Stress management – Helps clients recognize the mind/body responses of stress while learning behavioral and cognitive strategies to promote optimal wellbeing
• Weight management – Helps clients achieve and maintain a healthy weight
• Healthy eating – Helps clients feel better from the inside out with guidance on their nutrition journey
• Physical activity – Helps clients incorporate increased physical activity into their lifestyle
• Life satisfaction – Helps clients embrace purposeful living
• Work / life balance – Helps clients develop plans around balancing their careers and self-care
• Pillars of wellbeing – Helps clients with behavior change across all seven pillars of lifestyle medicine

A wellness coach can be the ideal partner to support you as you embark on your journey toward a healthier lifestyle. They serve as an accountability partner, guide, and cheerleader for achieving lasting change. Harmony Hollow’s certified wellness coach helps clients transform various aspects of their lives by providing confidential, tailored guidance and resources that address everyday challenges.

Contact us today for more information on implementing wellness coaching in your life.

In most cases, clients will work with their wellness coach for two to six months, though some programs offer longer commitments, as it typically takes this long to form new habits and achieve sustainable health changes. A 6-month program is common, but we also offer shorter packages with the option to continue month-to-month. The duration depends on your personal goals and the specific coaching program’s structure.

Factors Influencing Duration

• Habit Formation: Research suggests it takes approximately 66 days (a little over two months) for a new habit to become automatic. However, many clients aim to establish multiple new habits, requiring a longer coaching period.
• Achieving Sustainable Change: Coaches often recommend longer programs (six months or more) to allow clients enough time to implement and maintain significant lifestyle changes for long-term well-being.
• Program Structure: Some coaches offer 3-month packages as an initial commitment, with options to continue month-to-month afterward.
• Individual Needs: The length of the coaching relationship will be tailored to meet your specific needs and help you achieve your unique wellness goals.

With all packages you will receive:

• Ongoing Support: A wellness coach provides guidance and support to help you make sustainable lifestyle changes.
• Tailored Approach: Your coach will work with you to develop a plan that fits your schedule and addresses your specific needs.
• Long-Term Focus: The goal is not just a quick fix but to build healthy habits that lead to improved physical and emotional health over time.

When seeking a wellness coach, ask about their specialties to ensure they align with your health goals, like nutrition or stress management. Inquire about their coaching style and methods for measuring progress to find a good fit and set clear expectations for the coaching relationship. It is essential to remember that a wellness coach cannot replace a medical professional; therefore, you should continue to see your doctor for any serious health concerns.

Coach’s expertise

• What specific areas do you specialize in? Find a coach whose expertise matches your needs, such as a focus on diet and exercise, stress reduction, or sleep hygiene.
• What is your experience with clients like me? Understand who their ideal client is and what types of challenges they specialize in, ensuring they are a good fit for your specific wellness goals.

The coaching process

• How do you structure your coaching programs? Ask about the length, frequency, and format of sessions to see if the commitment level and communication style (e.g., video calls, in-person) are right for your lifestyle.
• How will we measure progress? Clarify how you will track your progress to ensure you are working towards your desired outcomes.
• What is your approach to accountability and setting goals? Discuss how the coach will support you in setting realistic goals and checking in on your progress.

Scope of services

• What is your policy on confidentiality? A coach must be clear about their professional stance on privacy to build a trusting relationship.
• What can I expect from your services? Understand the coach’s role in supporting your health journey, and how they differ from healthcare providers like doctors or therapists.

Questions for yourself

• Can I connect with this coach’s style and personality? It is important to find someone you feel comfortable with and can trust to share your wellness aspirations.