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What can health and wellness coaching do for me?
A health coach is a certified health professional who helps you achieve your goals and make lasting lifestyle changes.
Health and wellness coaching is like having a supportive guide on your journey to becoming the healthiest and happiest version of yourself. Imagine having someone by your side who listens to your needs, understands your challenges, and helps you create a roadmap to achieve your wellness goals. Health and wellness coaching takes a holistic approach. It considers all aspects of your life, including your physical health, mental well-being, relationships, work-life balance, and personal goals.
What we do.
A health and wellness coach works with you to identify areas where you want to make improvements or changes. Whether you're looking to lose weight, manage stress, improve your energy levels, or simply live a healthier lifestyle, your coach collaborates with you to set realistic and achievable goals.
Here are Alternative Pathways we are not like other coaching companies. No two of our clients will ever have the exact same coaching program, that is because we work with you as an individual to create a coaching program based on your unique needs and wants.
Through regular sessions with your coach, you'll explore various aspects of your health and well-being. This might involve discussions about nutrition, exercise, sleep habits, stress management techniques, mindfulness practices, and more.
Some areas we specialize in:
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Improving Mental Health Wellness
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Life Post Trauma
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Anxiety & Stress Management
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Developing Coping Skills
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Managing Chronic Illness
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Building Healthy Habits
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Building Healthy Boundaries
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Grief
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Gaining Self-Confidence
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Organization
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Emotional Regulation
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And More
Reasons to Work With a Coach
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You want to create healthier habits.
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You want to lose weight, and keep it off!
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You want to improve your overall physical and mental health.
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You want to learn how to meal plan, how to count calories or macronutrients.
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You want to learn more about nutrition and what foods feel good for your body.
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You want to be held accountable for reaching your goals.
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You want a customized plan made for you, not another fad diet or exercise program.
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You want emotional support, and healthy ways to cope with stress and anxiety.
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You want to live a long healthy life!
The reasons to work with a health coach are limitless because at the end of the day no matter your reason you deserve to be healthy and happy.
What will I gain?
Through working with a health coach at Alternative Pathways you will gain:
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Motivation and determination
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An understanding of what your barriers to health and wellness are
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Science-backed information to help you in understanding and navigating your goals
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Information on the cognitive aspects that may be blocking your health journey, and how to change that thinking
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Knowledge of how the body uses and absorbs food, and how to have a healthy relationship with it
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Worksheets, and goal planning to help you stay on track
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Confidence
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And so much more!
What we provide?
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Wellness coaching video session from the comfort of your own home
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Directive goal planning
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A collaborative experience
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Written assessments and tools for you to use beyond the sessions
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Relationship Assessments
A typical session.
In a typical session, we will create a safe space for you to talk about the area in your life you want to focus on. Together we will come up with the goals you wish to achieve from our time together. We will create a collaborative plan to help you tackle this area of your life so that you can be on your highest life path possible. We will provide you with tools, problem-solving skills, and coping techniques that you can use beyond the scope of our sessions together.
Why Trust Our Coaches?
Our coaches have focused their education and training to be able to provide you with trauma-informed and personalized coaching. All of our coaches are trained across various fields of wellness, and hold a masters degree, along with several certifications in their specifical areas of wellness. We strive to provide you with the best and most unique coaching possible because you deserve to thrive.
Read more about our coaches and their prospective areas of specialization here:
In addition to general health and wellness coaching we also offer the following specialized programs:
Autoimmune Disease Focused Health Coaching
A healthier balanced life is within reach
Autoimmune diseases affect millions of people worldwide, and they can have a significant impact on our daily lives. However, with the right support and guidance, we can learn to manage our symptoms and improve our overall health and wellbeing.
It's time to feel empowered in your health and wellness and receive a coaching program built around you and your needs. No more fad diet and exercise programs just real sustainable life changes.
A Different Approach Made Uniquely for
You
Our goal is to empower you to take control of your health and make sustainable changes that will improve your quality of life.
Working with Alternative Pathways, you get:
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A personalized health coaching plan that takes into account your specific autoimmune disease, symptoms, and lifestyle.
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A focus on addressing underlying factors like nutrition, stress, environment, and sleep.
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Help in creating healthy habits.
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Accountability, resources, and support.
Whether you are newly diagnosed or have been struggling with autoimmune disease for years, my coaching program can help you achieve your health goals and thrive.
Health Coaching for Weight Loss
Here at Alternative Pathways, we believe in promoting a healthy and happy lifestyle, which means making long-lasting cognitive-behavioral changes. We take an integrated approach to weight loss, focusing not only on making your goals attainable but linking both physical and mental aspects that may be keeping you from your goal weight. We focus on changing your thoughts, behaviors, and relationship with food.
Evidence-Based Approach
At Alternative Pathways, we create all of our programs using evidence-based interventions and scientific research. Our weight-loss program is based on the characteristic set forth by the NIH for choosing a safe and effective weight-loss program. We use the Transtheoretical Change Model, cognitive-behavioral techniques, coaching, and a narrative approach to make change real and attainable for you. We stay up to date on the latest research and news in the health coaching, and wellness world, so that you receive the most up-to-date information and evidence-based support during your time in our program.
No More Fad Diets, and Unrealistic Goals
No more fad diets that are bland, often unhealthy, and leave you feeling unsatisfied. Diets may work for some, but it's not sustainable to be on one diet forever. That's why our program focuses on cognitive behavioral change, to help you understand your food choices, and behaviors surrounding the foods you eat.
What does our Weight Loss Program offer?
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Behavioral focus- This aspect of the program focuses on identifying lifestyle choices, as well as mental health and emotional barriers to improving health and wellness.
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Information about sleep, managing stress, and the effects of stress on the body.
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Support - You are not in this alone. Weight-Loss Program participants have access to weekly 60-minute health coaching sessions, mid-week check in's with their health coach, monitoring and communication with their health coach.
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Post weight loss management - A plan for keeping the weight off – goal-setting, self‐checks, and support planning.
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Tools and assessments to help you track and reach your goals.
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Hypnosis for weight loss sessions (optional).
Pantry Makeovers
During this 90-minute session, you will work one on one with our health coach and will first learn the concept of Traffic Light Eating and how to decipher food labels, which will help easily and quickly determine the best foods to choose for you and your family. We will go through the items in your kitchen you have questions about, and you will be provided with resources and some of our favorite easy healthy recipes!
