THE NUTRITIONAL THERAPY ASSOSIATION’S
Professional Health and Wellness Coaching Program
FULLY ONLINE AND INSTRUCTOR-LED
Turn your passion for health and wellness into action! Replace or supplement your full-time income, help others, and love what you do!
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 4:30 – 6:30pm PT
Thursdays 1:00 – 3:00pm 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)
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.
Have your heart set on the September 2024 class? 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.
Nothing quite like the PHWC program…
Students are saying…
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 are
Health Coaches 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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