Health and Wellbeing Coach

Our Health Coaches are called Viv and Tais. They have worked in Buckinghamshire doing Health Coaching for several years. They both worked in different NHS healthcare and wellness roles before that. They have a wealth of experience in the area of healthy living, and in helping people to build confidence and healthy habits. They are very happy to use these skills to help you look after yourself the best you can.

• Health and Wellbeing Coaches help you to identify your own health priorities and goals, and to plan how to look after your health and wellbeing to meet those priorities.
• We ask what is important to you about your health, how things are now, and how you would like them to be instead.
• We help you set healthy lifestyle goals, then make straightforward plans to take small, achievable steps to reach those goals
• The key requirement is you are willing to make some changes, to take charge of how you look after yourself.
• Our Health Coaches help you to work out how to follow a healthier lifestyle, in the areas of:
  healthy eating/drinking, weight management, activity and exercise, balance and strength, sleep, stress, self-care, mental wellbeing.
• They also help you to build the confidence and motivation to look after your health.
• Our Health Coaches do not do stopping smoking programmes and they do not treat addiction. In Buckinghamshire this is done by Be Healthy Bucks (smoking) and One Recovery Bucks (addiction).
• Our Health Coaches can see you face to face or by telephone, for up to 6 sessions. You can be referred to a Health Coach by reception, a doctor or nurse, or any other member of your GP practice.

“I’d like to lead a healthier, more active lifestyle”
“I’d like to feel more in charge of my general health and wellbeing”

• You notice you’re not as healthy as you’d like to be. You may have gained weight, become less active or mobile, your balance or strength has declined, or you may have developed unhelpful eating/alcohol/sleep habits.
• Or, a health concern such as menopause, a musculoskeletal injury or a mental health issue has made it harder to follow a healthy lifestyle.
• Or, a health check (pre-diabetic, HBP) result makes you to want to lead a healthier lifestyle.
• When you are ready to make some changes, health coaching can help you develop a plan for a healthier lifestyle, and positive habits to sustain this.
  

“I’d like help to be healthy and feel the best I can while living with a health condition”

• Health Coaching can help people with one or multiple health conditions develop and maintain healthy lifestyle habits, in a way that suits their condition and fits into their life.
• Coaching can be of help to patients with: diabetes, hypertension, overweight/obesity, chronic musculoskeletal conditions such as fibromyalgia or rheumatoid arthritis, and many other conditions.

Below is a short video that explains Health Coaching