The document discusses the role of health coaches in healthcare. It begins with learning objectives about understanding the role of health coaches today and in the future, as well as how nutrition fits into health coaching. It then covers how the presenter became a health coach through studying naturopathic medicine, functional medicine, and health coaching. The rest of the document details the types of health coaches, their training and certification, the roles and responsibilities of health coaches, how nutrition relates to health coaching, what the future of the field may hold, and challenges and opportunities within health coaching. It concludes with reflection questions.

1. The Role of Health Coaches
in the Future of Medical Care
Practitioner Channel Forum
April 7th, 2016
Dr. Joel Kreisberg, DC, CCH, ACC
Executive Director
Teleosis Institute
www.teleosis.org

3. Learning Objectives / Agenda
• Upon completion:
• Participants will be able to:
• To recognize and understand
the role of health coaches in
the current and future
healthcare system
• To become familiar the role
of nutrition and it’s utilization
in health coaching
• To explore the opportunities
for investment and growth
• Agenda
• How I got here
• What’s a health coach?
• Training and certification
• What do health coaches do?
• How does nutrition play into
health coaching?
• What’s the future look like?
• Challenges
• Opportunities
• Summary

4. Reflection Questions

5. My Story

6. Naturopathic Medicine
• Naturopathic medicine is a
distinct primary health care
profession,
• emphasizing prevention,
treatment, and optimal health
• through the use of therapeutic
methods and substances that
• encourage individuals’ inherent
self-healing process.

7. Health Coaching
• Health Coaches partner
with clients
• seeking self-directed,
lasting changes,
• aligned with their
values,
• which promote health
and wellness and,
• thereby, enhance well-
being.

8. Functional Medicine
• Functional medicine
addresses the
underlying causes of
disease,
• using a systems-
oriented approach and
• engaging both patient
and practitioner in a
therapeutic partnership.

9. Types of Health Coaches
• Three areas
– Independent health
Coach
– Corporate Wellness
– Clinical Health Coach
• Coupled areas of study
– Nutrition
– Medical Herbalism
– Integrative Health
Practices
– Yoga Therapy

10. Certification
• International Federation
of Coaching- ICF
• National Consortium for
Certification of Health
and Wellness Coaches
(NCCHWC)

11. Roles

12. Nutrition and
Health Coaching

13. Future

14. Challenges

15. Opportunities

16. Reflection Questions
• To what extent is your current practice supporting
learning?
• Is there anything that you currently do that
interferes with your patients taking responsibility for
their healing?
• How might you focus patients on learning new skills
rather doing new actions?
• Which of the core competencies described here
might you use in your practice on Monday? How
would you do that?

17. Contact
Dr. Joel Kreisberg, DC, CCH, ACC
Teleosis Institute
drkreisberg@teleosis.org
www.teleosis.org
510-558-7285