Health Coaching Certificate
Lead Faculty:
Dr. Ellen Kaye Gehrke
This certificate is designed for integrative health professionals seeking to extend and improve their ability to coach patients through lifestyle and health changes. Potential students include physicians, nurses, chiropractors, nutritionists, pharmacists, acupuncture practitioners, naturopathy practitioners, physical fitness trainers, weight management coaches, and physical therapists, among others.
For admission to the graduate certificate program, students must meet all requirements for admission to a graduate degree program. For integrative practitioners and other interested individuals who are professionally prepared and licensed, but may not have completed a bachelor’s degree, six of the eight courses are offered in partnership with Extended Learning and may be taken for nonacademic credit. Please see extended learning section for more information on non academic coursework.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of coaching the "whole person".
- Recognize how to use self awareness tools to facilitate personal
development and growth in self and in coaching clients.
- Evaluate health coaching models and methods.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the coaching relationship.
- Be able to discuss the three phases of transition: endings, neutral
zone, and new reality; recognize how to use exercises/tools to
facilitate transition through coaching.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the core skills of motivational
interviewing and when to use it, as well as why it is important
for health coaching.
- Demonstrate knowledge of emotional intelligence and social
intelligence.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the use of EQ assessment tools
and how assessment results are useful in the coaching practice.
- Practice core coaching competencies with clients.
- Write a project focused research paper, which results in the
development of a coaching application, tool or training method.
- Describe the key elements of healing environments
- Demonstrate understanding of the elements and implications of
holistic stress management
- Differentiate between allopathic and complementary and
integrative health care practices.
Requirements
Certificate Requirements
(8 courses; 36 quarter units)
Core Requisite(s):
