Health and Wellness Career
Create a Thriving Health Coaching Practice
Becoming a Health Coach will allow you to work one-on-one with clients on issues related to their health, nutrition, and lifestyle. Ultimately, you will provide the guidance and support that they need to make sustainable changes in their diet, exercise routine, relationships, daily practice, and career. You will be able to see the results of your health coaching as your clients become happier and healthier.
Integrative Nutrition graduates are highly respected by clients and healthcare providers. With Health Coach certification, they receive referrals and are eagerly invited to work in medical offices, chiropractic clinics and other professional settings.
Listen to our nutrition experts and graduates speak about how they are changing the future of nutrition here.
Your practice
Building a successful health coaching practice is like starting any new business. It takes focused awareness, perseverance, commitment and motivation. Included in your tuition is our Fast Track business training program, where we show you how to reach your maximum income potential with step-by-step instruction that guarantees your success as a Health Coach.
Flexible schedule
While most of our graduates launch full-time health coaching practices, others choose to be part-time Health Coaches so that they have time for other endeavors like parenthood, remaining in their current job, or creating other businesses. As a Health Coach, you can decide whether you want to create a full-time practice or if you prefer to use it to generate supplementary income as a flexible, part-time option. Either way, we will give you all the skills and knowledge to reach your goals.
Where to work
One of the gifts of this career path is that you choose where to work. Many Integrative Nutrition Health Coaches work in their own homes, creating a home office or coaching clients over the phone. Others find their own office space or share office space with health practitioners such as massage therapists, acupuncturists, chiropractors or doctors. Examples of where Integrative Nutrition graduates work include:
- Home office
- Medical center
- Fitness of Wellness center
- Private Practice
- Yoga studio
- Day spa
- Natural food store
- Restaurant
- Corporation
- School
The possibilities are unlimited! You have the ability to shape and personalize your practice into what works for you.
Graduate success
Following are a few examples of where our graduates work today:
• Cambridge Health Alliance/ Men of Color Health Initiative
• Elite Model Management
• Equinox Fitness
• Fruition Health
• Gnosis Chocolate
• Golden Star Tea Company
• Good Medicine Works
• HealthCorps
• IntenSati
• The Jena Wellness Group
• Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
• Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center
• Metagenics
• Nutricia Consulting
• Nutrition Street
• Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
• Salem Sports & Spine Physical Therapy
• Teachers College Columbia University
• Town Sports International Health Club
• Weill Medical College of Cornell University
• Whole Foods
• Yale University
