The Health Coach Training Program™

IIN's Flagship Program

The Health Coach Training Program™

Reframe what you know about health and wellness to live a fulfilling life in this comprehensive, integrated and dynamic program that includes content and activities related to holistic nutrition and lifestyle.

  • English, Spanish
  • Next start dates: September 2023, November 2023
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6 months or 12 months
5 to 7 hours a week per module
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Online, cohort-based
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What you’ll learn

  • Integrative Nutrition
    The broadest, most comprehensive curriculum covering seven categories: physical health, nutrition, mental and emotional health, primary food, spirituality, coaching, and business.
  • Bio-individuality
    Simple yet powerful, this IIN core concept emphasizes finding the foods and lifestyle practices that align with your unique needs to create sustainable healthy habits.
  • The IINtegrative Coaching MethodTM
    Learn the tools and techniques that allow you to embrace coaching as a lifestyle—you are your first client—and creates the foundation for personal and professional transformation.
  • Multi-dimensional health
    An IIN core concept, this holistic approach considers all aspects of an individual from your physical health, nutrition and environment, to your mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
  • Primary foods
    Find what feeds and nourishes you beyond the plate, such as your relationships, career, social life, finances, environment, and much more.
  • Integrative Nutrition
    The broadest, most comprehensive curriculum covering seven categories: physical health, nutrition, mental and emotional health, primary food, spirituality, coaching, and business.
  • Bio-individuality
    Simple yet powerful, this IIN core concept emphasizes finding the foods and lifestyle practices that align with your unique needs to create sustainable healthy habits.
  • The IINtegrative Coaching MethodTM
    Learn the tools and techniques that allow you to embrace coaching as a lifestyle—you are your first client—and creates the foundation for personal and professional transformation.
  • Multi-dimensional health
    An IIN core concept, this holistic approach considers all aspects of an individual from your physical health, nutrition and environment, to your mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
  • Primary foods
    Find what feeds and nourishes you beyond the plate, such as your relationships, career, social life, finances, environment, and much more.
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Put your certificate to work

Become an entrepreneur

Build a business that fits your lifestyle and career goals. From coaching to creating self-care, fitness, or food products, get started with comprehensive resources.

Join a healthcare
team

Support patients while working alongside doctors, registered dietitians, and other healthcare professionals to help bridge the gap in care.

Curate content for a global audience

Share your expertise widely, whether writing bestsellers, building six-figure businesses as bloggers and influencers, creating digital content, or public speaking.

Experience personal transformation

Leave the program feeling empowered to take control of your life with improved physical health, less stress, and more passion to live a life you love.

IIN’s Health Coach Training Program gave me the tools and confidence to support millions of people with eating more superfoods and powerful plants with my company Your Super and with my published book, Your Super Life. If you are looking to help others along their health journey, this program is for you!

Kristel de Groot
Plant-Based IIN Health Coach & Founder of Your Super

IIN’s training program launched my dream career as a Health Coach! Today, I work in a functional medicine practice that specializes in helping women heal the root causes of their gut, hormone, and mood symptoms. I am so grateful to wake up every day excited to work.

Rachel Sunley
IIN Health Coach at Functional Medicine Practice

I now work as a holistic career coach, where I help women discover their gifts, fulfill their purpose, and create a joyful life.

Joy Randolph
IIN Health Coach & Speaker

Meet some of your teachers

Gabby Bernstein

Gabby Bernstein

Motivational Speaker, Life Coach, Bestselling Author

Curriculum topics

Teaches Manifest Your Dream Career

Zach Bush, MD

Zach Bush, MD

Board-Certified Physician, Microbiome Educator and Thought Leader

Curriculum topics

Teaches The Global Microbiome

Maya Feller, MS, RD, CDN

Maya Feller, MS, RD, CDN

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Author

Curriculum topics

Teaches Food Access and Food Bias

What do I need to get started?

IIN's Health Coach Training Program doesn't require any prerequisite courses or higher learning transcripts to enroll. You must have a high school diploma, GED, or equivalent.

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Course overview

The program consists of 40 modules plus Orientation. Each week a new module will open in the 12-month track and two modules open per week in the 6-month track.

Explore IIN’s unique approach to integrative health, nutrition, and lifestyle and introduce our core concepts: bio-individuality, multidimensional health, primary food, and secondary food.
Examines the root causes of multidimensional disease and dysfunction from a functional medicine perspective. You’ll explore the interconnectedness of the body’s systems as you revisit your own health story and learn to listen to and honor your needs.
Review various approaches for personalizing and supporting your bio-individual, multidimensional nourishment through primary and secondary food. You’ll explore therapeutic supports – both dietary and supplemental – and their roles in addressing health issues and come to understand how multiple truths can coexist within the field of nutrition.
You will explore health and nutrition on a universally conscious and connected level, consider pathways toward spiritual nourishment, and learn how to create a ripple effect in your community. IINtegration Lab is the last four modules where you’ll finalize your Transformation or Business Plan.

Your learning experience

  • 100% online
    The Health Coach Training Program was designed to fit into a busy lifestyle. Access your course materials from anywhere in the world, on any device
  • IINtegration Weeks and IINtegration Lab
    Apply what you learned with immersive IINtegration Weeks and complete a final project that brings your intentions and goals to life.
  • Coaching Circles
    Get real-time feedback, inspiration, and support in a small group setting, as well as gain insights from your group leader, a successful graduate and Health Coach.
  • Community forums
    Connect with your classmates and IIN staff and coaches in private forums, including your class Facebook group and discussion boards in your learning platform.
  • Quarterly Office hours
    Take advantage of opportunities to get your questions answered and seek support from dedicated staff members during webinar-style office hours.
  • 100% online
    The Health Coach Training Program was designed to fit into a busy lifestyle. Access your course materials from anywhere in the world, on any device
  • IINtegration Weeks and IINtegration Lab
    Apply what you learned with immersive IINtegration Weeks and complete a final project that brings your intentions and goals to life.
  • Coaching Circles
    Get real-time feedback, inspiration, and support in a small group setting, as well as gain insights from your group leader, a successful graduate and Health Coach.
  • Community forums
    Connect with your classmates and IIN staff and coaches in private forums, including your class Facebook group and discussion boards in your learning platform.
  • Quarterly Office hours
    Take advantage of opportunities to get your questions answered and seek support from dedicated staff members during webinar-style office hours.

Experience learning at IIN

Find out first hand what it's like to be an IIN student.

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Certificate

Earn your certificate as an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach at the end of the course after satisfying your graduation requirements.

Earn credits while you earn your certificate

The Health Coach Training Program is recognized by the below organizations, colleges, and universities:
  • National College Credit Recognition Service (NCCRS)
  • Maryland University for Integrative Health (MUIH)
  • California Institute for Integrative Studies (CIIS)
  • Excelsior University
  • Goddard College
  • UK Level 4 Recognition 

Our Educational Partnerships & Affiliates

We are affiliated with one of the largest university systems in the United States – The State University of New York (SUNY) – as well as other institutions that accept IIN’s Health Coach Training Program to be applied towards relevant degree programs. We have earned recognition by many organizations that allow graduates of IIN to apply for membership.

Earn credits while you earn your certificate

The Health Coach Training Program is recognized by the below organizations, colleges, and universities:
  • National College Credit Recognition Service (NCCRS)
  • Maryland University for Integrative Health (MUIH)
  • California Institute for Integrative Studies (CIIS)
  • Excelsior University
  • Goddard College
  • UK Level 4 Recognition 

Our Educational Partnerships & Affiliates

We are affiliated with one of the largest university systems in the United States – The State University of New York (SUNY) – as well as other institutions that accept IIN’s Health Coach Training Program to be applied towards relevant degree programs. We have earned recognition by many organizations that allow graduates of IIN to apply for membership.

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Frequently asked questions

The Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) is the longest standing nutrition and health coaching school in the world, and we’ve been leading the health coaching industry for 30 years. Our comprehensive Health Coach Training Program - available in both English and Spanish (the first coaching program of its kind to be offered fully in Spanish!) - will teach you everything you need to know to become a successful Health Coach.
You will learn from the world’s leading experts in topics such as integrative nutrition and nutrition science, functional medicine, wellness concepts, personal development, coaching methods and theories, and business-building and marketing skills. These content categories will be taught by over 95 teachers and visiting faculty, plus explained in interactive tools throughout the curriculum that are unique to IIN, such as breaking down complicated science concepts in Science Spotlights and integrating holistic health concepts during Somatic Moments that ground you in the present and support you on your learning journey.
This program has evolved over the last 30 years to be the most comprehensive holistic health education available, setting graduates up for success as a Health Coach, as well as any kind of wellness entrepreneur. Plus, the information you will learn can be applied throughout all areas of your life, improving your overall well-being and quality of life.
Get more information about the Health Coach Training Program curriculum [here].
Discovering your best self and taking those learnings to inspire and empower others is the heart and soul of what we do. We’re not your traditional nutrition program because we take a holistic approach to wellness and explore all of the things that affect your health – think relationships, spirituality, finances, physical activity, creativity, and more. This is integrative nutrition in action!
You'll have the opportunity to explore diverse dietary theories spanning from ancient Eastern Traditions to modern Western medicine, including our own unique core concepts, bio-individuality and primary food. But we’ll never tell you what’s “right” or “wrong,” because we don’t believe in that. We believe there’s no one-size-fits-all diet and as you go through the curriculum, you’ll learn what makes you feel like your best self and how to help clients achieve the same. You are your first client and you may find yourself losing weight, increasing your energy, and saying goodbye to all that negative self-talk. You will fall back in love with the most important person in your life—YOU.
You'll also be on the road to career freedom. We’ll train you to launch a meaningful career as a Health Coach and how to achieve your own personal goals for success. There's no recreating the wheel here. We've made launching the career of your dreams as easy as 1, 2, 3. You’ll hone essential coaching skills with the IINtegrative Coaching MethodTM, as well as learn critical marketing practices like finding your niche market, creating a website, and using social media.
Hear more on the transformational nature of our program from real IIN graduates [here].
Our program was designed specifically for adult learners - we give you flexibility to learn in a six-month accelerated track or a 12-month track. The program consists of one Orientation module and 40 core curriculum modules, split into four sections which include a test at the end of each section and an Integration Week to apply what you’ve learned. You'll have opportunities to follow a learning pathway: Personal Transformation or Professional Development, culminating in a Transformation Plan or Business Plan that will be the blueprint for your success (you can also choose to do both!).
Modules are released on a weekly basis in the 12-month track, or 2 modules per week in the six-month accelerated track. Although modules open at a regular cadence, you will be able to go through the content on your own schedule - you don’t need to be online at certain times to be able to complete your program. As long as you complete the program within the allotted time - six months or 12 months - and satisfy your graduation requirements, you can take the program at any pace that works for you.
All learning content is hosted in the online IIN Learning Center, where you’ll access audio and visual lectures, handouts, quizzes, assignments, and tests. The curriculum also contains interactive tools to accommodate all types of learners! You’ll have a private Facebook group where you can interact with classmates and IIN staff about the curriculum and program updates.
You can expect to spend about 5-8 hours per week on your coursework (or 10-16 hours in the accelerated program); how much time you spend really depends on what you want to get out of the program. Just like with anything you're working on: you get out what you put in.
During the program, you will hear from more than 95 visiting faculty and speakers who are experts and thought leaders in the fields of health and wellness. They will provide high-quality and timeless instruction on a variety of topics. You can check some of them out [here].
Our faculty hold a number of credentials and qualifications, including advanced degrees and certificates in: Business, Culinary Arts, Education, Feng Shui, Law, Massage Therapy, Acupuncture, Nutrition Science, Dietetics, Personal Training, Photography, Videography, Psychology, Public Health, Website Design, Yoga and Pilates.
In addition to our visiting faculty and speakers, you will hear from resident coaching guides and members of the IIN staff who are also Integrative Nutrition Health Coaches and run coaching practices and other businesses in their spare time.
Our program is designed to give you the knowledge you need to create sustainable lifestyle changes, in yourself as well as in others, such as friends, family, and future clients. Our visiting faculty and teachers, many of whom are functional medicine physicians, PhDs, and researchers, will cover functional nutrition, nutrition science, and anatomy concepts so you’ll have a general sense of how the body functions, how the body utilizes the food you eat, and how our microbiome affects your health.
Utilizing curriculum features such as Science Spotlights, we’ll dive deeper into the science behind important nutrition and wellness concepts so that you are well-equipped to explain these concepts to others, as well as apply the information to your own life. We aim to provide the latest nutrition science information, while staying aware of the ever-changing landscape of nutrition research.
Your work is done completely online in the IIN Learning Center, but that doesn't stop our program from being an interactive experience. The program can be accessed from a smartphone, tablet, or desktop, and in our new mobile app, so whether you're a parent, a working professional, or just super busy, you'll be able to fit this education into your life.
Students have the opportunity to connect with classmates during the program, as well as successful Health Coaches and IIN graduates during live coaching calls to facilitate your coaching skills. The IIN Student Advisor team is also available to help students achieve their best throughout their time with IIN.

Yes, it is offered in Spanish, too. The Spanish version of The Health Coach Training Program contains the same curriculum content as the English version. All content within the curriculum will be translated, with Spanish closed captioning or transcripts provided for all lectures. Coaching Circle sessions, the interactive live calls with professional Integrative Nutrition Health Coaches, will be conducted in Spanish with a Spanish-speaking host. The class Facebook group discussion will also be conducted in Spanish. Students in the Spanish program will also have the opportunity to receive support from the IIN Student Advisor team in Spanish.

Upon graduating, you will earn the title of Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, and you will receive both a paper certificate and a digital badge to display your accomplishment across your online channels. We offer a certificate of completion, not a certification.
Currently, no governmental agency requires any health coach certification. However, IIN offers graduates the pathway to certification and further credentialing so that Integrative Nutrition Health Coaches can continue to set themselves apart from other Health Coaches. Not all health coaching schools provide such certification opportunities, and may make false claims about what you are able to do after graduating from their program.
Learn more about IIN’s pathway to certification:
Coaching Intensive Practicum: This course is approved by the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWC), which means that graduates of this program will be prepared to apply and sit for the NBHWC board certification exam to become a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC). The NBHWC was founded by leaders from academic and vocational coaching programs, and aspires to standardize the education and certification process for Health Coaches around the world. All Health Coach Training Program (HCTP) graduates are eligible to take the Coaching Intensive Practicum, and non-HCTP graduates are also eligible to take the Coaching Intensive Practicum. Learn more about Coaching Intensive Practicum here. 
International Association for Health Coaches (IAHC): All IIN Health Coach Training Program graduates are eligible to take the IAHC certification exam, no further courses or education required. This exam tests knowledge on the scope of practice and ethical responsibilities of a Health Coach. Graduates who pass the exam earn the title Certified International Health Coach. The mission of the IAHC is to advocate on behalf of Health Coaches and continue to develop the profession in concert with other healthcare professionals.
The short answer—the possibilities are endless. Our graduates not only create part-time and full-time health coaching businesses, but they spread the ripple effect of health and happiness in a variety of ways and in a variety of fields. Learn more about what some IIN graduates are up to and how IIN transformed their life here.
Our only academic requirements are a high school diploma, GED, or equivalent. However, if you have a passion for health and wellness, a desire for a transformative personal experience and/or career change, and the determination to make a difference in the world, you’ll find success within our program.
IIN is competitively priced and although you may find a lower priced option, no program delivers more value than ours. We offer options to pay in full, as well as flexible payment plans.
With your tuition, you’ll receive:
--Access to the state-of-the-art IIN Learning Center including the IIN mobile app, IIN Learn, where all your program materials and student experience will be hosted.
--Access to over 95 visiting faculty, guides, and coaches who will be your teachers throughout the program, teaching everything from functional medicine and nutrition to spirituality.
--Access to exclusive IIN events, including virtual networking, business-building, and inspirational programming.
--Complementary libraries and resources in addition to the curriculum content to further build your holistic health knowledge.
--Comprehensive career-building resources, like done-for-you clients handouts, business cards, coaching program templates, and much more.
--Introductory access to build your own website.
--Eligibility to join a variety of coaching organizations in the U.S. and internationally to support your personal and professional goals.
--Eligibility to apply your Health Coach Training Program education towards continuing education units (CEUs) and higher education degrees through our educational partners around the world.
--Unlimited opportunities to connect with classmates, Health Coaches, and the IIN Student Advisor team.
--And so much more!