Every WellCall health coach is a degreed health professional who works with clients one–on–one via phone, email and online messaging to help create a new, healthy start on life.
Health coaches are health educators, exercise physiologists, nutritionists and other experienced professionals. They all have degrees in their respective fields and current licenses or certifications. Additionally, they have all been trained specifically in developing long–term behavioral change.
Health coaches do NOT diagnose diseases. But they do have access to RNs, LPNs and other medical professionals for consultation, and they can provide lifestyle support tips to help manage pre–diagnosed conditions.
Health coaching creates change by:
Two decades of research¹ has consistently shown that health coaching really helps people to live healthier lives through better habits.
One–on–one phone coaching motivated adults to exercise regularly, improving their cholesterol levels significantly. Adults who took in–person group classes weren’t as motivated and had lesser results.
Health coaches even helped the busiest women — those acting as primary caregiver for sick relatives — to create healthy changes, significantly lowering their blood pressure.
Health coaching has been shown to be most effective during the early phases of behavior change. Once the habit’s formed, less encouragement is needed to keep it up.
If your employees could take better care of themselves than they do now, then they could benefit from health coaching.
¹ “Telephone–assisted counseling for physical activity,” Exercise and Sport Sciences, April 2002. This Stanford University study reviewed two decades of research.