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Start Your Career as a Certified Health & Wellness Coach in 6 Months or Less

Imagine if you had a proven, accredited health coach program, developed by a top-tier of trusted subject matter experts, that showed you exactly how to enhance the lives of others? (And get paid doing it?)

That’s what the AFPA Health & Wellness Coach Certification online program will show you.

This health and wellness certification is your ticket to world-class education, the credibility to coach it, and the skill to turn action into results.

What is the Health & Wellness Coach Certification?

AFPA Certified Health & Wellness Coaches help their clients make powerful lifestyle behavioral shifts that lead to:

Greater life satisfaction
Better emotional and physical performance
Less disease

As a Certified Coach, you’ll develop tailored wellness plans for your clients to integrate into their lives and teach clients how to be accountable, follow through, and reach their goals.

As a Certified Health & Wellness Coach You Will Learn How to:

Evaluate a client's current health status, strengths, and overall wellness
Guide and facilitate a course of action to hit client goals
Develop client-specific integrated wellness plans to support them in multifaceted areas of their lives
Teach clients about accountability and be there to support their efforts
Provide ongoing evaluation and assessment of progress
Assist clients in working through the barriers to change behavior
Work with and educate clients on how to make winning a lasting way of life

What Is the Difference Between the Health & Wellness Coach and Holistic Health Coach Certification Programs?

The Health & Wellness Coach program focuses on:

The various coaching processes
How to be an effective coach
How to elicit behavior change from your clients
How health is not only specifically dependent on diet and exercise but also on supportive relationships, meaningful work, work/life balance, spirituality, and more
Client-focused support — aiming to decrease stress and areas of life contributing to poor health and a limited mindset

The Holistic Health Coach program includes both the Health & Wellness Coach and the Holistic Nutritionist programs. The Holistic Nutrition Certification program focuses on:

Meal planning and dietary guidelines for disease prevention and optimal health through whole foods nutrition
The science behind whole foods and plant-based nutrition
Holistic diets such as vegetarian, vegan, and Paleo diets

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What You’ll Get:

This program will provide you with all of the knowledge, core skills, confidence, and tools that you'll need to begin your journey as a Health & Wellness Coach.

All course materials
- Digital eBooks and/or physical textbooks based on your learning preference
Online learning activities
Practice quizzes and self-assessments
PDF slide presentations
Online final exam
Counseling and lifestyle management forms for starting your own business
Forms, worksheets, checklists, and client questionnaires

A Look Inside The Curriculum:

The online Health & Wellness Coach Certification is broken down into two comprehensive modules:

Module 1:

The All-Inclusive Approach to Optimizing Health

This health and wellness focused module examines the use of a balanced, integrated, holistic model of health and explores the many dimensions of wellness. You’ll discover how to effectively self-assess, develop critical thinking, and judge behavior change skills to facilitate personal awareness and well-being.

You’ll dive into:

Achieving personal health
Mind-body communications to maintain wellness
Managing stress and mental health
Eating and exercising toward a healthy lifestyle
Movement and physical activity for health
Understanding and preventing disease
Understanding drug use and abuse
Making healthy choices
Exploring alternative medicines
Overcoming obstacles
Health enhancement methods

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Module 2:

Becoming an Effective Lifestyle Coach That Gets Clients Results

You will learn evidence-based coaching and systematic processes to guide, support, and motivate clients to achieve positive behavior change and long-term healthy lifestyles and practices. Examine the 11 core competencies created by The International Coach Federation and learn how to directly apply these to the health and fitness arena.

You will also practice effective coach–client dialogues and reflection exercises that will help you to personally experience the content. Get ready to explore all the necessary skills for professional development and for supporting and advancing clients in change processes related to health, wellness, and fitness.

You’ll dive into:

Introduction to lifestyle wellness coaching
Core ingredients in effective coaching
Different models of coaching
Foundation for effective coaching
Meeting ethical guidelines and establishing the coaching agreement
Coaching agreements
Ongoing support for new behaviors and actions
The active nature of listening
Steps in questioning
Direct communication
Goals and goal setting
Coaching as a path of change
Reconfiguring the concept of expertise
Your life as a coach

Is This Program For Me?

You’re looking in the right place if you:

Find it incredibly rewarding helping others reach their goals and coaching on how to live healthier and happier lives.
Seek easy entry. Instead of spending years going to school to become a doctor, nurse practitioner, or physician’s assistant, you’ll put your expertise into practice faster and start helping clients sooner. Also? You’ll save tens of thousands of dollars in the process.
Crave flexible job opportunities. Whether working in group settings or one-on-one, for yourself or at a wellness center, corporate wellness program, or medical office, the possibilities are endless when you’re AFPA certified.

Best program ever!!!

“I am beyond THRILLED with my program so far. Easy to go at my own pace, easy to understand the process, and the content that I am learning is fantastic! I feel like I am truly being set up for success!”

Tara P. Verified Buyer

Accreditation & Continuing Education You Can Count On

Graduates of AFPA nutrition and coaching programs are eligible to apply for the American Natural Wellness Coach (ANWCB) or the American Association of Natural Wellness Practitioners (AANWP) board certification.
AFPA is an approved school by the Health Coach Alliance (HCA) for the AFPA Holistic Health Coach (HHC) program. The Health & Wellness Coach (HWC) program is included in the HHC program. Graduates of AFPA-Approved certification programs (HHC) qualify for membership into HCA and the designation of “Registered Health Coach” (R.H.C.) title.
AFPA is an accredited school by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP). The AADP is recognized by both, traditional and nontraditional holistic schools and colleges worldwide as an independent accrediting board for alternative health educational institutions and programs. Graduates of AFPA nutrition and coaching programs are eligible for additional Board Certification from the AADP.
Graduates of the AFPA Health and Wellness Coach Certification program are eligible to apply to be Board Certified through the ANMAB (American Naturopathic Medical Accreditation Board).
The Health & Wellness Coach Certification program is approved by the National Association of Nutrition Professionals (NANP) for a total of 30 NANP Category 1 CEUs.

Are There Payment Plans?

Absolutely!

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