Health Coaching
Change your approach to food, manage your stress and transform your life!
Finding it hard making healthy habits stick?
Are you frustrated that you can’t seem to make the changes you’ve been trying to make for so long? Have you become increasingly disappointed in yourself for not following through? Do you feel overwhelmed and confused with all the health information out there and don’t know what’s right for you, or where to even start?
It can all seem too much at times. And perhaps on top of that you feel like you’ve lost trust in yourself. After all, you’ve tried so many times, yet you seem to fall back into old patterns, no matter how much you want it. You just can’t seem to stick to those healthy habits long-term.
We all know about the importance of good nutrition and exercise. So how come we aren’t all fit and healthy, and we still have health problems? It’s clearly not just about having the right information (although that’s still important). It’s about learning how to make changes that stick for good.
Finding it hard making healthy habits stick?
Are you frustrated that you can’t seem to make the changes you’ve been trying to make for so long? Have you become increasingly disappointed in yourself for not following through? Do you feel overwhelmed and confused with all the health information out there and don’t know what’s right for you, or where to even start?
It can all seem too much at times. And perhaps on top of that you feel like you’ve lost trust in yourself. After all, you’ve tried so many times, yet you seem to fall back into old patterns, no matter how much you want it. You just can’t seem to stick to those healthy habits long-term.
We all know about the importance of good nutrition and exercise. So how come we aren’t all fit and healthy, and we still have health problems? It’s clearly not just about having the right information (although that’s still important). It’s about learning how to make changes that stick for good.
The Struggle…
When you struggle with health challenges and add the stress of disappointment in yourself on top of that, your lifestyle and wellbeing can really suffer. It becomes hard to believe that change is even possible, and that a return to a “normal” life may be just around the corner. Those problems affect everything in your life. They may result in a sense of overwhelm, and your relationships, productivity at work, mental clarity, plans and dreams for the future all suffer because of it.
Instead of eating poorly, sleeping insufficiently, exercising too little and being under constant stress, you wish to be healthy and fit. You dream of a life full of energy and purpose, where you wake up well rested and start your day with drive and excitement that continues throughout the day. Your relationships are thriving and your newfound health and wellness is inspiring the people around you to make healthy changes too.
The Struggle…
When you struggle with health challenges and add the stress of disappointment in yourself on top of that, your lifestyle and wellbeing can really suffer. It becomes hard to believe that change is even possible, and that a return to a “normal” life may be just around the corner. Those problems affect everything in your life. They may result in a sense of overwhelm, and your relationships, productivity at work, mental clarity, plans and dreams for the future all suffer because of it.
Instead of eating poorly, sleeping insufficiently, exercising too little and being under constant stress, you wish to be healthy and fit. You dream of a life full of energy and purpose, where you wake up well rested and start your day with drive and excitement that continues throughout the day. Your relationships are thriving and your newfound health and wellness is inspiring the people around you to make healthy changes too.
The Shift…
Imagine a life where you don’t have to worry about your gut issues or how they might affect your day; where you know how to handle stress at work and deal with any situation in a calm way; you’re truly motivated to exercise and move your body because you feel so good; where your sleep has never been better and whenever things don’t go quite as planned, you know how to handle that too. Imaging you have go-to strategies that help you even in the toughest situations.
Best of all though, you are feeling confident and invincible. You trust yourself to take on any challenges that come your way, and you now know exactly how to make habits stick. You have grown in all areas of life, not just your health and fitness, and you’re inspired to continue to develop your mind and body.
Imagine this shift was possible… with Health Coaching, it is!
The Shift…
Imagine a life where you don’t have to worry about your gut issues or how they might affect your day; where you know how to handle stress at work and deal with any situation in a calm way; you’re truly motivated to exercise and move your body because you feel so good; where your sleep has never been better and whenever things don’t go quite as planned, you know how to handle that too. Imaging you have go-to strategies that help you even in the toughest situations.
Best of all though, you are feeling confident and invincible. You trust yourself to take on any challenges that come your way, and you now know exactly how to make habits stick. You have grown in all areas of life, not just your health and fitness, and you’re inspired to continue to develop your mind and body.
Imagine this shift was possible… with Health Coaching, it is!
What is Health Coaching?
Health Coaching is a process that takes you from stuck, overwhelmed and frustrated to taking steps that automatically lead to a healthier mind and body. Health coaching teaches you how to stick to habits, what’s needed for success, and how you uniquely work as a person. It helps you identify challenges and obstacles, and how to overcome them. It provides an opportunity for accountability and self-empowerment, so that you’ll know how to continue to make changes long after working with your coach. In the process you get to know and understand yourself intimately, you figure out what is driving you, learn to believe in yourself and your strengths, and you take action towards your goals.
When you work with a health coach you get crystal clear on what you want your life to really look like. Together with your coach you develop your vision for a compelling and inspiring life. You then start to define what will get you to where you really want to be, and how to take steps each day and week. Sure, it’s a process and not a magic bullet. It requires work and commitment, but the motivation to make changes will come through the process. You don’t need to be healthy and fit, motivated and accomplished in any areas of life yet. Come as you are, wherever you are in this moment, and through the support and partnership of coaching you will experience greater change than you can currently imagine possible.
What is Health Coaching?
Health Coaching is a process that takes you from stuck, overwhelmed and frustrated to taking steps that automatically lead to a healthier mind and body. Health coaching teaches you how to stick to habits, what’s needed for success, and how you uniquely work as a person. It helps you identify challenges and obstacles, and how to overcome them. It provides an opportunity for accountability and self-empowerment, so that you’ll know how to continue to make changes long after working with your coach. In the process you get to know and understand yourself intimately, you figure out what is driving you, learn to believe in yourself and your strengths, and you take action towards your goals.
When you work with a health coach you get crystal clear on what you want your life to really look like. Together with your coach you develop your vision for a compelling and inspiring life. You then start to define what will get you to where you really want to be, and how to take steps each day and week. Sure, it’s a process and not a magic bullet. It requires work and commitment, but the motivation to make changes will come through the process. You don’t need to be healthy and fit, motivated and accomplished in any areas of life yet. Come as you are, wherever you are in this moment, and through the support and partnership of coaching you will experience greater change than you can currently imagine possible.
Hallmarks of Health Coaching
Partnership
Strengths-focused
Empowerment
Learning & Insights
Compassion
Client-centred
Who Can Benefit from Health Coaching?
Health coaching is for anyone, regardless of age, gender, profession, health challenge or goals. The coaching process is always the same – it is centred around and focused on you and your specific situation. Each person is different, and so is each coaching session.
As health coaches we tailor the coaching process to you as an individual, so that you can experience the biggest changes. Instead of telling you what to do or applying a cookie-cutter approach, we help you find your own motivation and discover your underlying desire/reason for change.
Health coaching is for you if you would like to get to know yourself better, understand the values that are driving your decisions, gain confidence in yourself, and develop healthier habits that you can sustain for life.
It is also for you if you want to get clear on your goals and dreams, and if you’re feeling overwhelmed with all the changes you want and feel you “should” make. Health coaching helps you focus and make continued progress in the right direction, one step at a time, without feeling overwhelmed or confused
The Process
Vision Session
We start with creating your vision during a full-hours session to craft out what your perfect life will look like.
Goal Setting
Based on your vision session you determine specific goals to work towards for the next 3-6 months.
Coaching
Each coaching session is focused on implementing small steps that lead towards your goals and vision.
Review
The final session will be a review of the process and determining your next steps!
Functional Medicine vs Health Coaching
So, what’s the main difference between working with a Functional Medicine Practitioner and a Health Coach?
While health coaching takes a functional medicine approach to health, it is entirely focused on the change process. Health coaches don’t tell you what to do, or prescribe treatment plans, but instead help you make healthy lifestyle and behaviour changes in line with functional medicine principles. Health coaches are experts in human behaviour, motivation, and health.
If you work with a Functional Medicine practitioner and they prescribe some needed changes for you to make, health coaching is what helps you make them. For some clients the proposed dietary, lifestyle and stress management advice may seem overwhelming. Working with a coach, while following the functional health practitioner’s guidelines, will help you prioritise what is most important to you, and take the type of steps you need to make it work for you.
Health Coaching vs Life Coaching
Both coaches are trained in behaviour change and use tools such as Motivational Interviewing and Positive Psychology to help you overcome obstacles and successfully make changes. Even though health coaches have additional specific knowledge in health, this doesn’t mean that other topics are excluded from coaching. Health is so much broader than just physical health, it includes every aspect of your life.
Health Coaching vs Counselling/Therapy
Coaches don’t diagnose or treat mental health issues. They work alongside a therapist to help a client deal with life’s challenges, but in a more forward-looking way than what you experience in therapy or counselling. Coaching is concerned with the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of change, not so much the ‘why’ of how you got here. It’s about ‘where will you go?’ and ‘how can we make this happen?
Meet Your Health Coaches
Deborah Garber
ADAPT Health Coach
Deborah is a Kresser Institute ADAPT Health Coach. She has a passion for health, wellness and good nutrition, and a belief in the individual’s power to navigate his or her health outcomes. After 40 years in the teaching profession, both as a high school teacher and a trainer and mentor of teachers, Deborah decided to pursue a new career that would enable her to help people achieve their health and life vision and their wellness goals.
Meet Your Health Coaches
Deborah Garber
ADAPT Health Coach
Deborah is a Kresser Institute ADAPT Health Coach. She has a passion for health, wellness and good nutrition, and a belief in the individual’s power to navigate his or her health outcomes. After 40 years in the teaching profession, both as a high school teacher and a trainer and mentor of teachers, Deborah decided to pursue a new career that would enable her to help people achieve their health and life vision and their wellness goals.
Helena Mueller
ADAPT Health Coach
Helena is a Kresser Institute ADAPT Health Coach. She has always had a big interest in health, fitness and all things natural wellbeing. Helena pursued a career in health coaching to share her passion and desire to help others experience the best health possible. She believes that if someone is healthy and feels fulfilled in life, they can share their gifts with the world and focus on bigger life goals, such as living their dreams and purpose.
Helena Mueller
ADAPT Health Coach
Helena is a Kresser Institute ADAPT Health Coach. She has always had a big interest in health, fitness and all things natural wellbeing. Helena pursued a career in health coaching to share her passion and desire to help others experience the best health possible. She believes that if someone is healthy and feels fulfilled in life, they can share their gifts with the world and focus on bigger life goals, such as living their dreams and purpose.
Working with Deborah during the Melbourne COVID-19 lockdown lifted me out of a place of helplessness and inertia and instead, Winter 2020 has seen me realise health and life goals which had eluded me for several years. Deborah has deep and broad knowledge of health matters as well as instinctive understanding of the complexities of human beings. Our weekly sessions were structured and targeted with information being exchanged in a way that was entirely organic. Every week I have learned something important and throughout I have felt respected and understood and the results are a testament to the effectiveness of the program; I am 60 years old and I am in complete control of my overeating for the first time in my life; I have taken 12 kilos off in less than three months and in addition, I am already several constructive steps into processes which will introduce desired change in other aspects of my life and I am feeling very positive and supported! My experience has totally convinced me of the benefits of working with a health coach like Deborah. I give her my wholehearted recommendation.
“I want to thank Helena from the bottom of my heart for all her help as a coach. Helena coached me for six weeks and she was understanding, caring and helped me overcome one of the biggest hurdles in my life. I had a dream and didn’t know how to get there, but with her help and guidance I was able to get over the hurdle – not just during the time she was helping me but long after our sessions. I became more confident, less stressed, I found clarity and purpose again in my life and was able to have a work life balance as well. I highly recommend Helena and can’t thank her enough.”
“I would highly recommend Helena to anyone who is interested in exploring the benefits of health coaching. Helena’s pointed questions brought things to light that I would have never thought of myself. The amount of self awareness that came out of these sessions was the biggest take away for me. Every week I left our sessions thinking more deeply of the questions she had asked me. The entire experience was extremely eye opening for me. I walked away with tools I could apply to every aspect of my life and not just the goal we focused on together. Just like taking classes as a type of professional development for your career, health coaching should be a key element of your personal growth plan.”
Your Investment
3-Month Health Coaching Package
- 8 coaching sessions over 3 months (delivered 4 x weekly, then 4 x fortnightly)
- Vision and long-term goals setting
- Values discovery
- Strengths spotting
- Sharing of information as needed
- Session structure sheet to help plan and make notes before and after sessions
- Support in between sessions as needed
I did a series of coaching sessions with Deborah and I’ve come out with such clarity and motivation. We discussed and worked on areas involving exercise consistency/habit forming, career clarity, improving sleep hygiene, and self-expression. It was all done with such ease and grace from Deborah, she made it a completely safe place to explore and share. Through her support and guidance I’ve found a new sense of confidence and self-assurance. Thank you so much Deborah!
The sessions with Deborah Garber, my health coach, opened a new world to me, a world in which I learned to focus on myself, look after myself and pay attention to my challenges and needs, especially during this particularly difficult and stressful year (2020). Deborah is able to raise my self-awareness and provide me with the practical tools to deal with those less-than-perfect habits that have tripped me up each time I tried to bring about the sought-after change. Deborah listens actively, ensures that our sessions are focused, matter of fact and enriching. Most importantly, the meetings with her give me genuine motivation to create change in my life. I warmly recommend her to any person who feels a desire to change or is in need of support. You will not regret it. It is like winning the lottery.
“When I started working with Helena, I was sorting through thoughts I had about the life I wanted to live and how that compared to the way I was spending my time. Helena was able to help me lead myself through the steps I would need to take in order to fulfil my vision for a life well lived. At times it was hard because it made me reflect on life decisions I had made based on fear, and what I would have to do to get out of my comfort zone to pursue my dreams. However, going through the motions is a terrible waste of one’s time. With Helena’s help, I managed to enjoy more meaningful interactions and found a life that was better aligned with my values and passions. Helena used techniques that ensured reflection and that I found the answers within myself, rather than just œ giving unsolicited advice. The gentle, guided approach provided me with the time to really think about the direction I wanted to go in and why. I am glad I was able to take time to process my choices and have Helena facilitate the inner work I needed to do.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I have to know about nutrition?
No, you do not have to come to our sessions with prior knowledge. Over the course of our work together your health coach might recommend certain articles and/or books to help you build your understanding of good nutrition if needed. You will decide how much you want to learn.
Will the health coach put me on a diet?
No, health coaches are not nutritionists or dietitians, we do not prescribe diets. We are able to share articles and information with you or work with you on your recommended diet if you are working with a doctor/dietitian/nutritionist.
Will the health coach recommend a specific diet?
No, we do not recommend specific diets. However, as Functional Health coaches we are trained within the framework of ancestral eating with a focus on whole foods, and we are able to share information on this approach.
Do I have to know how to cook?
No. You can work with a health coach no matter what level of cooking you are at. As health coaches we are more than happy to share recipes and help you on your way to developing your skills in the kitchen. Some health coaches will help you clean out your pantry, plan meals and even do some basic cooking demonstrations.
Do coaches help with a reset diet?
Yes, if you decide to do a reset diet or it has been prescribed by your doctor/ practitioner/ nutritionist, we will work with you on any issues you are having around the reset diet.
Does working with a coach mean I have to give up convenience food?
This is entirely up to you. We, as health coaches, are trained to understand that many of the ingredients in convenience food are harmful to your health. You will determine to what degree you wish to curtail your consumption of convenience food, if at all.
Is health coaching about weight loss?
For some it is. Health coaching helps you deal with whatever your particular health issue is. For some it may be weight loss, for others it may be the need to gain weight or regulate hormones, etc.
Is health coaching a form of exercise training?
No. Health Coaches are not trainers. We neither offer training sessions, nor recommend specific exercise regimes. We support you in finding the right type of exercise that feels right for you, getting started, and sticking to it in a way that feels doable and maintainable for you.
Can I email my Health Coach with questions?
Yes! If you have questions, need support or guidance you can email your Health Coach at any time. Expect a reponses back from us within 24-hours.
Do you work remotely?
Yes. In fact all of our consulation are conducted remotely via Zoom video conferencing.
How much does it cost?
A 3 month, 8 session package is $995.00.
Will I have to pay for the whole course of coaching in advance?
No, it can be paid in instalments if you prefer.
Can I just have one session and then decide whether I want to do it?
Yes. You will have a free half hour introductory session, and you can also opt for a stand-alone visioning session at the cost of $150 for a full hour. If you decide to do the full coaching programme, your visioning session will be incorporated into the total cost of the programme.
Will I have to complete the course if I do not want to?
No. If for any reason you decide it no longer suits you, you will receive a refund for any sessions still outstanding.
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