A health coach works in partnership with clients to help them make changes to enhance their health and wellness. Through identifying desires, values and goals a health coach helps a client maximise their own expertise and knowledge of their life and experiences, transforming them into actions to achieve long term change. Health coaches work with people who have received a diagnosis of a condition such as diabetes, heart disease or cancer or people who are at risk of a diagnosis. Health coaches also work with people who have health and wellness goals and would like support to achieve them.

A health coach will:

• help clients to understand their motivation to make health behaviour change

• identify barriers to change

• work to set goals, trial changes

• support clients through change

• be a trusted ally and source of accountability

• provide personalised support