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Health Coach

Health coaches develop personalized programs for individuals who want to maintain a state of wellness, prevent illness or injury, improve nutrition, and/or stay fit and active. Health coaches may also work with businesses and organizations to provide these services to employees, or as consultants and educators who combine conventional and complementary medicine or other resources to assess lifestyle risks and promote health-related activities to individuals, groups, businesses, or organizations.

JFK University offers several programs, courses, and certificates that support your interest in becoming a health coach.

The School of Education and Liberal Arts (SELA) offers the BA in Science, Health, and Living Systems, a program that integrates the study of preventive health and wellness, genetics, health ecology, and sustainability. Through our holistic approach, you appreciate the factors, conditions, relationships, and interactions that stimulate, sustain, or impede human potential. The BA in Social Ecology recognizes the complex dynamics of a whole person (mind, body, spirit) that exists within a vast web of living systems. The certificate in Essentials Coaching may help you build the foundation for effective coaching practice.

The School of Holistic Studies (SHS) offers the MA in Holistic Health Education, emphasizing health education from a holistic, integrated perspective. Through its particular focus on wellness, you learn to integrate alternative and mainstream approaches, East and West thought approaches, science and spirit into issues faced by health coaches and their clients. The School of Holistic Studies also offers an innovative master's degree in counseling psychology that features unique specializations in somatic psychology, transpersonal psychology and holistic studies. This counseling psychology program provides solid academic training in counseling skills, while also strongly emphasizing self-exploration, personal growth, and the integration of body, mind and spirit.

The Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP) provides many programs that offer prospective coaches the knowledge, skills, and understanding to help individuals, families, and groups reach their potential. In addition to the PsyD degree, you’ll find master’s programs in counseling psychology, sport psychology, and organizational psychology, with a certificate in coaching that is designed to help you start a business in life/health coaching, career coaching, organizational coaching, or another type of coaching or consulting practice.

To learn more, contact:

• the School of Education and Liberal Arts,
• the School of Holistic Studies, or
• the Graduate School of Professional Psychology.