HEALTH COACHING

Lifestyle Medicine Clinic Adelaide - Health Coaching

For decades, society’s state of “busyness” with work, home and personal commitments have led to poor lifestyle behaviour and we are now seeing chronic health conditions rise across populations. The idea that modern medicine’s “magic bullet” will fix our poor health choices has been debunked and health experts now widely prescribe the need for individuals to take active steps towards disease prevention.

The way one eats (and what one eats), prepare meals, consumes other substances (tobacco, recreational drugs), moves their body, sleeps, interacts with both the external environmental and their internal world (mental processes), deals with the inevitable stressors of life (from major catastrophes, losses and aging to everyday commuting, long sedentary working hours, etc.) are all called behaviour.

The behavioural choices one makes in all those domains are the main predictors of their future path either toward health or disease. When that behaviour becomes a fixed and established pattern that lead towards the disease end of the spectrum, and change is required, then Lifestyle Medicine practitioner/Health Coach can help.

Health coaching is defined as “a client-or-patient - centred process that assumes a working relationship/partnership develops between patient and coach to advance healthy lifestyle behaviour change using tools such as a nonjudgmental dialogue, goal setting, and accountability".(Clifford, D and Curtis, L, Motivational Interviewing in Nutrition and Fitness, 2016)

If you answer YES to any of these questions listed below you may benefit from seeing a Health Coach at Lifestyle Medicine Clinic:

  • Have you thought you need to make changes to improve your health?
  • Do you worry about your current state of health?
  • Are you not feeling your best?
  • Have you been told you need to lose weight?
  • Do you find it hard to motivate yourself?
  • Do you find it hard to make healthy choices?
  • Are you struggling to get healthy?

Being a specialist in Lifestyle Medicine, highly skilled in Lifestyle Medicine principles, Nadia will:

  1. Evaluate your personal level of readiness to make a lifestyle change
  2. Guide you towards forming an action plan
  3. Assess your knowledge and confidence levels in applying change
  4. Help you address your motivation and any educational, physical or psychological barriers to change
  5. Provide you with the latest in evidence-based information on nutrition, exercise, stress, sleep, tobacco risks, alcohol risks, environmental risks, lack of social support risks
  6. Consider a multidisciplinary team of suitably qualified Lifestyle Medicine Allied Health Professionals as part your health care pathway and
  7. Offer you ongoing non-judgemental support through all stages of your habit change process, through lapses and relapses and ongoing maintenance. Support could be through a combination of consultations, group program, telephone contact, apps or social media connectedness.

 

As our Principal Lifestyle Medicine Specialist, Nadia offers Lifestyle Medicine coaching for people who want to prevent lifestyle-related conditions, manage and improve their lifestyle related chronic conditions or just simply want to improve and maintain their health and wellness in long run. She helps uncover root causes and provides personalised one-on-one education, support and actionable steps in order to prevent, manage and overcome lifestyle-related chronic conditions.