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JOIN THE PROFESSIONAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS COACHING PROGRAM
Struggling with client compliance?
The NTA Professional Health and Wellness Coaching Program is an eight-month, instructor-led, and fully online program encompassing the NTA’s foundational approach to health and wellness coaching.
NTA Certified Professional Health and Wellness Coaches (PHWC) are equipped to cultivate curiosity, encourage exploration, and reflect objective truths that empower a client to discover possibilities and create a supportive path toward their vision of health and wellness.
Take the current healthcare crisis head-on and lead the charge in providing services that will positively impact the future of healthcare, yourself, your family, and your community!
FEBRUARY 2025 SESSION DETAILS
Registration Dates: September 16th, 2024 – January 31, 2025
Course Dates: February 3rd, 2025 – September 22, 2025 (Course duration is 8 months)
Live call times:
Tuesdays 1pm – 3pm PT
Thursdays 5pm – 7pm PT
(students are required to attend one live call per week in order to graduate)
Your tuition includes:
- Curated resources with the most up-to-date industry information.
- Video lectures and course materials via the NTA’s online learning system.
- Interactive webinars with live instructors, access to individualized support from instructors, and student forums maintained by your instruction team.
Non-refundable $99 application fee applied at checkout. Required texts not included in tuition (approx. $200)
BUNDLE: 45% off RWS Mastering the Art and Science of Gastrointestinal Healing
Register for PHWC and get RWS for an additional $2200. Discount already applied at checkout. Offer ends on October 14th at 5pm PT.
RWS Overview and Promotion Details
Mastering the Art & Science of Gastrointestinal Healing is RWS’ foundational course and is the course that has helped hundreds of NTPs continue to grow their clinical skills, confidence, and business. Offered every March and September, this 12-week online, instructor-led course teaches you how to reverse food sensitivities and resolve gut issues with even your toughest client cases.
In the RWS course, you’ll learn:
➡️ How to restore digestive function and integrity through testing and interpretation of comprehensive stool analysis, GI-MAP, H. pylori, and SIBO testing
➡️ The exclusive RWS approach to heal food sensitivities once and for all
➡️ How to pull the right information from lab tests to know exactly when and how to recommend the right foods, supplements, and lifestyle changes
➡️ When to deploy and how to get the most out of special diets such as GAPS, low-FODMAPS, ketogenic, intermittent fasting, candida diet, and others
➡️ How to build protocols that are personalized to your client’s unique needs, which increase the speed and effectiveness of their healing journey
➡️ PLUS, how to package and price your services to maximize client compliance, improve client health outcomes, and increase your income
You will be able to enroll in the RWS course following completion of the PHWC program. You can choose from the next two consecutive RWS offerings following your graduation. Failure to complete the PHWC program within the original cycle will forfeit the RWS enrollment.
RWS Course Modules
Introduction and Welcome
The RWS Approach:
- Understand and honor the healing priorities of the body
- The discovery process: identifying imbalances and blocking factors to health via lab testing and effective client interviewing skills
- Develop a customized healing protocol that honors the healing priorities of the body and addresses the imbalances we found in the discovery process, and uses the tools of our trade as nutrition professionals – diet, supplements and lifestyle – to restore balance and health
- How to work safely with testing as unlicensed practitioners
Digestion Anatomy & Physiology
- Learn the anatomy and physiology of the gastrointestinal system
- Understand optimal digestion function
- Explore the many kinds of digestive dysfunction, from GERD and SIBO to parasite infections and beyond
The GI-MAP
- Learn what makes the GI-MAP test unique and the RWS preferred stool test
- Understand when to use this test and how to interpret it
- For students outside the US, we also learn about the Complete Microbiome Mapping test and the GI EcologiX test
CSAP and SIBO testing
- Learn about an additional stool testing option: the Comprehensive Stool Analysis with Parasitology and how the test technology differs from the GI-MAP
- Understand when to use this test and how to interpret it
- Learn about the testing options for Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth
- Understand when to use these tests and how to interpret them
Healing Solutions and Case Studies
Learn how to structure a therapeutic gastrointestinal healing protocol that includes:
- Support for optimal digestive function
- Pathogen eradication
- Gut healing
- Microbiome strengthening
- The removal of dietary stressors
Along with several case studies to see these tools applied in clinical practice.
Adverse Food Reactions
Understand the mechanisms of different types of adverse reactions to food:
- Food allergy
- Food sensitivity
- Food intolerance
Along with testing options for adverse food reactions and the benefits and downsides of each option.
The RWS Approach to Adverse Food Reactions
Learn the unique RWS approach to gut healing:
- The specific combination of tests that provide the most helpful information
- How to use the information gleaned from these tests to sculpt the most effective healing protocols
- How to heal the root cause of food sensitivities
Along with several case studies to see these tools applied in clinical practice.
Nutrients, Food, and Special Diets
- Macronutrients: a review
- Macronutrient balancing based on biochemical individuality
- The role of healing foods in therapeutic protocols
- When and how to work with special diets
Supplements and Lifestyle
- Learn how to effectively work with supplements including how to assess quality, dosing considerations, how to manage ordering and shipping logistics, and the RWS preferred brands
- The missing link: understanding the impact of our lifestyle and emotions on our health and wellbeing
- How to properly and thoroughly assess and interpret a food journal
- How to conduct an effective initial interview that builds trust, gathers detailed clinical information, and initiates a strong relationship with your client
Putting it All Together
- The RWS business methodology: how to structure your practice for optimal results
- Client enrollment and retention: how to inspire, engage, and enlist your clients in their healing journey
PAY IN FULL
$4200 $2200
Affirm options available with 0% interest up to 6 months.
Financing options up to 36 months.
NTA PAYMENT PLAN
$525 $275/month
*0% interest. No credit check.
Requires an additional $50/ month service fee in addition to tuition.
Not interested in this bundle? Enroll with just PHWC.
These options do not include the current bundle. Discounts are applied at checkout.
PAY IN FULL
$4200 $2200
Affirm options available with 0% interest up to 6 months.
Financing options up to 36 months.
NTA PAYMENT PLAN
$525 $275/month
*0% interest. No credit check.
Requires an additional $50/ month service fee in addition to tuition.
Not sure what option is best for you? Speak with Admissions.
NTA Health Coaching Foundations
✅ Client-Centered Coaching
Recognizing that the client is the expert in their life, NTA health coaches empower clients to strengthen their belief in themselves and confidence in their ability to make consistent progress toward their unique vision of health and wellness.
✅ Client Bio-individuality
NTA health coaches honor client bio-individuality, recognizing there is no one size fits all approach to health coaching. Listening to the client’s experience and honoring client accessibility, NTA health coaches draw from their health coaching skills and tools to meet the client where they are.
✅ Relationships of Trust
NTA health coaches hold a safe place for clients to continually feel seen, heard, encouraged, trusted and supported. Honoring the courage of the client to ask for support, NTA health coaches seek understanding first through active listening and active observing, offering compassion and empathy, and trusting the client’s experience.
✅ Client Resilience
NTA health coaches foster client resilience, recognizing client ambivalence and struggles as a normal part of the process while encouraging self-compassion, self-kindness, and a growth mindset in clients.
✅ Coach Care & Ethics
NTA health coaches prioritize coach self-care, supporting their health through nutrition, lifestyle, and mindset. Understanding the roles and responsibility of both coach and client, NTA health coaches adopt a high standard of ethics and set healthy boundaries while supporting clients within scope of practice.
hear it from your fellow NTPs…
What you’ll learn
INTRODUCTION TO COACHING
CLIENT CENTERED RELATIONSHIP TRUST AND RAPPORT
ACTIVE LISTENING AND PRESENCE
CLIENT EMOTIONS AND ENERGY
EXPAND THE CONVERSATION
REFLECTIONS
COACH PREPARATION PRIOR TO SESSION
GOALS AND IMPLEMENTING ACTION
CLIENT INTAKE FORMS
INITIAL COACHING SESSION
FOLLOW-UP COACHING SESSIONS
FOCUS AND REFOCUS THE CONVERSATION
CLIENT'S FREEDOM OF CHOICE, AUTONOMY, AND INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
CLIENT AWARENESS, PERSPECTIVE SHIFTS, AND INSIGHTS
COACHING MODELS
CLIENT SELF-EFFICACY AND IMPROVE SUPPORT
CLIENT ACTIVE EXPERIMENTATION AND SELF-DISCOVERY
INCREASE POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCES
FINAL COACHING SESSION
PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
ETHICS AND LEGAL
HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION, APPLYING A WHOLE PERSON PERSPECTIVE
CHRONIC DISEASE
ASSIST CLIENT TO EVALUATE AND INTEGRATE HEALTH INFORMATION
HEALTH BEHAVIORS, SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTORS
PRACTICAL SKILLS ASSESSMENT
FIVE INTEGRATED 1:1 COACHING MENTOR SESSIONS
Curriculum
The NTA Health Coach Program covers a full range of topics from coaching process and coaching structure to ethics and health and wellness.
Each module includes engaging video lectures and classroom materials that are accessible through our online learning platform in Canvas.
Practical Skills
Students learn our complete NTA Model of Coaching and Coaching Session Structure. We reinforce coaching competencies through practical experience working with clients, real world coaching techniques, ways to manage client onboarding and follow-up sessions, tools for assessing clients’ bio-individual health and wellness, ways of determining optimal health goals, and supporting the client in creating life-changing action steps.
Online Classroom Environment
Guided by the Health Coach Program Director and Coaching Mentors, students are expected to complete the coursework independently, following a weekly schedule to stay on pace with assignments, client work, and exams. The instructional team hosts weekly live calls to discuss the current module’s curriculum, present additional resources and topics for students to explore, and hold an open Q&A for student inquiries.
Assessments
Assessments are focused on critical thinking and engagement through practical and written assignments that allow students to assess, build upon, and apply their firsthand knowledge to future clients. They include traditional written assignments, coaching sessions with practice clients, a practical skills assessment, and a final written exam. Additionally, students are given action-oriented assignments that provide opportunities to practice what they’ve learned.
Why is
Health Coaching Needed?
Research reveals that as many as 40% of patients fail to adhere to recommendations and when preventative or treatment plans are complex or require lifestyle changes, the number of patients who don’t follow through can be as high as 70%.
Martin, Leslie R et al. “The challenge of patient adherence.” Therapeutics and clinical risk management vol. 1,3 (2005): 189-99.
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