Health Coaching

What is Health Coaching?

Health coaching helps individuals improve their physical and emotional wellbeing by
providing personalised, client-led support to change behaviours, manage chronic conditions and achieve health goals.

Coaches use techniques like motivational interviewing and goal setting to build confidence, accountability and practical, sustainable lifestyle habits.

Strategies are tailored to the specific needs, circumstances, and preferences of the client.

Coaching increases a client’s ability to self-manage and take an active role in their own care. Research shows it can lead to tangible improvements in their overall quality of life.

For further information or to self-refer for coaching, please contact the wellbeing team directly using the details provided at the end of this page.

Key benefits of Health Coaching

Behaviour change and goal setting: Coaches help clients define personal health goals, create actionable plans and break them into manageable steps.
Lifestyle optimisation: Coaches provide guidance on nutrition, weight management, pain management, sleep, menopause, andropause and increasing daily physical activity.
Emotional wellbeing: Support is provided for stress management, reducing anxiety
and improving overall mood.
Accountability and empowerment: Clients gain confidence, motivation and resilience,
turning “should-be-healthier” goals into enjoyable, lasting habits.

What coaching is available for staff

Weight management and lifestyle improvement: Implementing sustainable strategies for weight loss, improving nutrition, diet, increasing physical activity, pain management and improving sleep hygiene.
Stress: approaches to reducing stress, increasing resilience and improving overall
mental wellbeing.
Persistent pain: Assisting individuals living with long-term pain to support them to
self-manage their symptoms
Menopause support: managing the symptoms through the menopause transition.
Andropause support: managing the symptoms through the andropause transition.

What Health Coaching is not:

Health Coaching is not medical treatment or therapy. Health coaches do not
diagnose conditions, prescribe medication or provide clinical interventions. Those
responsibilities belong to licensed healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses,
psychologists or therapists.
Health Coaching is not a substitute for professional mental health care. While health
coaching supports wellbeing, it does not replace psychological therapy for complex
mental health needs that require specialist intervention.
Health Coaching is not about giving expert advice or telling clients what to do. A
health coach is not a consultant who provides ready-made solutions; instead, they
help you to explore your own goals, strengths and motivations.
Health Coaching is not a quick fix or prescriptive programme. Health coaching is not
about delivering rigid plans, strict rules or one-size-fits-all recommendations.
Health Coaching is not judgemental or directive. Coaches do not critique, pressure,
or push clients into specific behaviours. The approach centres on empowerment,
autonomy and collaboration.

How Health Coaching will be delivered

Coaching is typically delivered through structured conversation and follows a process of
establishing goals, exploring current challenges and creating action plans.

You will be offered up to six one-hour coaching sessions. Coaching will be confidential and held at a time that suits both coach and client. The sessions can be held face-to-face or over video (Teams).

How to self-refer

Please email the relevant department below and ensure you include the following
information; if any information below is not included in your email it will be returned to you and we will not be able to offer you coaching until all the information is included.