Wellness Coach Career: Using Skills From Your Career As a Life Coach

Anyone looking into a wellness coach career with any sense has probably wondered, “How can I do this without a medical background?” “Where’s my credibility?” “Can this coaching course really help me start a wellness coach career in 90 minutes?” How can you transfer your knowledge and skills that you already have from your career as a life coach?

There are Several Aspects of a Wellness Coach Career to Consider:

Are you a coach who has a medical background? Nursing? Physician? Physician’s Assistant? Nutrition? If so a wellness coach career might be something you can transfer your skills into quite readily.

What if you don’t have a medical background and are afraid of doing harm to someone with your advice? Are you afraid of getting sued for practicing medicine without a license? Can you provide value by offering wellness coaching?  Can you pursue a wellness coach career without risking getting into trouble?

Most people who are looking to improve their health know what they should do, but just don’t know how they can implement the changes into their life. Anyone facing a major health issue has years of habits that do not support the change and probably family and friends who don’t know how to give support. Or worse yet, family and friends may be sabotaging the efforts knowingly or unknowingly. Even without a medical degree a good coach can have a successful wellness coach career by helping clients overcome these challenges.

So How Do You Start? By Using Skills You’ve Developed Through Your Career as a Life Coach

The first skill you can use from your career as a life coach is Diagnosis. Not a medical diagnosis of course, but you will want to determine what’s really going on with your client and how you can help your client get the results that they want.  You’ll need to understand what your client wants and what prevents your client from getting what they want.  Once you understand those two areas, you’ll have successfully diagnosed your client.

The next step you can use from your career as a life coach is to gain leverage to motivate your clients to change. You must help your clients see the pain that failing to change will cause then, and the pleasure they will gain by changing.

Then You Can Use Conditioning Techniques to Help Your Client Reinforce New Habits for Their Success, Just as You do in Your Career as a Life Coach

As you can see, your career as a life coach has already prepared you for a shift of niches to a wellness coach career.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Accountability Coach

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