Frequently Asked Questions

Coaching sessions provide a safe, confidential sanctuary to voice vulnerable concerns, envision desired progress, challenge unproductive viewpoints, and consider new perspectives.

What are some of topics can we work on in Thrive360 coaching sessions?

    • Optimizing wellness through nutrition, diet, and physical activity

    • Facilitating manageable lifestyle changes and assistance with identifying and overcoming barriers including knowledge and mindfulness

    • Guidance on chronic condition self management (diabetes, kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, coronary artery disease, etc.), weight management, smoking cessation

    • Proactive measures you can take to improve your general health and wellness even without a diagnosis

    • Self advocacy and balancing physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional well-being

    • Eliminating chronic stress and learning ways to handle acute stress better for holistic well being

    • Exploring solutions for long term sustainable health and wellness

    • Customized guidance on how to implement and maintain your provider’s recommendations.

    • Next steps and developing an exit strategy

    • Developing a team, leadership, and management mindset

    • Enhancing critical thinking and decision-making abilities

    • Generally improving performance, productivity, and focus

    • Work life integration, balancing professional and personal priorities

    • Navigating challenging circumstances and conversations, career paths, and upskilling

    • Support with time management, acute stress management, chronic stress elimination, organization, prioritization, and burnout prevention

    • Cultivating hope and optimism

    • Discovering purpose and passion

    • Coping with loss, grief, breakups and charting a new path forward

    • Developing resilience, adapting to change and uncertainty

    • Aligning beliefs and behaviors with values

    • Empowering personal growth and achieving desired outcomes

    • Nurturing self-discovery and self-confidence

How does coaching differ from therapy, consulting, training, and mentorship?

  • By providing a safe space for reflection and evaluation, coaches help clients to define their goals more clearly, and build greater self-awareness and confidence. Coaches are change agents and empathetic listeners that value client opinions, while challenging them to be their best selves. If you want to maximize your potential and achieve your goals, coaching is the way to go.

    Coaching helps you cultivate the following to help you move forward:

    • insights/self-awareness

    • mindsets/perspectives

    • behaviors/actions

    • clarity/accountability

  • The main goal of therapy is to gain relief from symptoms, maintain or improve daily functioning, and improve the quality of your daily life. Therapy is designed to help you work through deep issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma and other more serious concerns. Both therapy and coaching use evidence-based techniques and intentional dialogue as the primary tools for growth and discovery. A license is required to offer therapy.

  • Consultants offer expertise and advice to organizations or individuals to help them improve their business performance. Some consultants also accomplish work for organizations or individuals.

  • Trainers teach skills to better prepare people for a specific goal including a job, activity, or sport, or to improve upon already-established skills. They may use a curriculum and facilitate classes to accomplish this task.

How can working with a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach benefit me?

  • Many different types of medical professionals can help you with your health. They use science to understand your condition and recommend things you can do at home to self-manage it. Sometimes we encounter challenges making the lifestyle modifications they recommend. This sometimes leaves you feeling overwhelmed and desiring additional support to make sustainable progress.

  • National Board Certified Health &Wellness Coaches (NBC-HWC) are a part of the team of healthcare professionals who help people improve their health. Health coaches draw from their education in health and coaching techniques, to support people in making their desired lifestyle changes that can prevent or manage certain diseases. Also, health coaches have more time to work with people than other healthcare professionals, and can offer more comprehensive support. If you're feeling overwhelmed, a health coach can help you understand why lifestyle changes are important, and support you in developing a personalized plan to help you make them happen.

    National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coaches (NBC-HWC) support clients in activating internal strengths and external resources to make sustainable and healthy lifestyle behavior changes. NBC-HWCs use a client-centered approach wherein clients decide their goals, engage in self-discovery or active learning processes, and self-monitor behaviors to increase accountability, all within the context of an interpersonal relationship with a health coach.

    Whatever goal the client sets, the health coach ensures that they are supported until the desired outcome is achieved. National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coaches display an unconditional positive regard for their clients and have trained to the highest standards in the profession. This means NBC-HWCs have the skills and knowledge to walk alongside you on your path to your healthiest self.