Functional Medicine Certified Health Coaching
Are you Ready to Discover the Power of Functional Medicine?
Are you ready to have an ally on your journey to optimal health?
Is your current lifestyle preventing you from doing what you love? Are your current symptoms stopping you from living the life you deserve? Working with a Functional Medicine Health Coach can educate and empower you to reclaim your health and wellness and get back on track to living your life.
Imagine waking up daily with more energy and vitality to spend time with your loved ones enjoying the things that make you happy.
If you are looking for a personalized functional approach that focuses on modifiable therapeutic lifestyle approaches, working with a Functional Medicine Health Coach can bring you a new perspective on your current lifestyle.
Changing lifestyle habits can be difficult on your own. Working with a health coach to get you back on track and it can be a huge asset on your journey toward optimal health and wellness.
Functional Medicine Health Coaches are trained in Functional Medicine principles and approaches. We rely on our expertise in coaching psychology, including positive psychology and motivational interviewing. Our goal is to empower you to take control of your health, and guide you toward lasting, sustainable changes to optimize your wellbeing.
When is it time to start working with a Functional Medicine Health Coach?
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You feel stuck and have tried everything to improve your health. Without achieving the results you deserve.
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Do you feel as if your life is sliding out of control? Do you notice your energy and vitality are out of balance?
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Living in the age of information doesn't make this journey any easier. We now have thousands of health professionals and a new fad diet popping up every week. This can make navigating your path towards wellness on your own near impossible.
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Following a new therapeutic food or lifestyle plan can be overwhelming. Functional Medicine Health Coaches are trained in various FM food plans and other autoimmune protocols. Our clients experience more success with new protocols when they work with a health coach.
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You love learning new information about health and wellness and FM. You want to work with a coach to learn more and hold you accountable by co-creating new goals as you work toward creating even healthier habits.
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A doctor has diagnosed you with a condition and recommended diet and lifestyle changes without giving you a plan to implement. A coach will listen to your story, offer support and help you create a manageable plan that is attainable and realistic.
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Sometimes all you need is an accountability buddy to keep you on track. A coach can also help you discover your short and long-term goals for optimal health and wellness.
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Functional Medicine Health Coaches are trained in different coaching psychology methods. We utilize Motivational interviewing and positive psychology techniques to help clients discover intrinsic motivational factors such as past successes and challenges and how to utilize unique character strengths on their mission to achieve optimal health and wellness.
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You haven’t been feeling 100% lately, and you aren’t sure where to start. Are you currently experiencing less energy, brain fog, digestive issues, headaches, and joint pain?
Benefits of Working with a Functional Medicine Health Coach
Accountability and Support - Often, new diet and lifestyle changes fail due to a lack of accountability from others. Consider a coach your accountability buddy. Every session, we co-create new SMART goals that align with your short-term and long-term vision of optimal health and wellness.
A Coach - Are you tired of having experts telling you that you need to change? Functional Medicine Health Coaches rely on the coach approach. With the coach approach, you become the decision-maker and gradually grow into the expert on your path forward, evaluating your own success. Health coaching encourages personal responsibility, reflective thinking, and self-discovery.
A Teammate - Many Functional Medicine Health Coaches have been on their own healing journey and understand what you are going through. We can help you tap into your unique character strengths and help you utilize them along the way.
A Guide - As coaches, we are here to guide you through any challenges that you are facing. Using motivational interviewing and positive psychology, we can help you examine your current lifestyle and discover your intrinsic motivation to tap into as we move through the stages of change.
An Educator - Functional Medicine Health Coaches are trained in Functional Medicine principles and approaches. We stay up-to-date with current research and the ever-evolving world of Functional Nutrition.
Learn More About Functional Medicine
Functional Medicine Health Coaches are trained in Functional Medicine principles and approaches. We rely on our expertise in coaching psychology, including positive psychology and motivational interviewing. Our goal is to empower you to take control of your health and guide you toward lasting, sustainable changes to optimize your well-being.
Functional Medicine Health Coaches utilize the following fundamental coaching concepts
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Positive psychology is the scientific approach of studying human behaviors, thoughts, and feelings with a focus on character strengths instead of weaknesses, focusing on the positive in life instead of the negative, and changing the lives of average people to great people.
We use positive psychology to support clients to utilize their unique character strengths in new ways as we work towards behavior change.
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Motivational interviewing is designed to help clients to discover their intrinsic motivation on the path toward sustained positive behavior change. This client-centered approach relies on collaboration between the client and the coach.
The coach discovers the client's ideas instead of commanding their own ideas. This is based on the assumption that motivation to change comes from within. The coach gathers information by asking open-ended questions, offers support through affirmations, conveys empathy using reflections, and summarizes to communicate understanding.
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Functional Medicine is a systems-based approach that focuses on proactive disease prevention, addresses health issues at their source, and emphasizes lifestyle change and education instead of relying on medication.
This healthcare model is a collaborative, patient-centered process focused on prevention and healing, not symptom suppression.
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Functional Nutrition puts the focus on personalized food and lifestyle approaches to wellness and disease management.
Functional nutrition concentrates on the patient, not just on their disease or condition while utilizing a whole body approach to optimizing an individual's health based on their unique bio-individuality. Functional Nutrition understands that Every-Body is different.
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A science-based approach connecting how our emotions, thoughts, relationships, social engagements, spiritual connection, and behaviors affect our physical well-being and long-term health outcomes.
Functional Medicine Health Coaches are trained in and can walk clients through mind-body techniques that have been shown to positively benefit physiological health and well-being.
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“The expert approach” acts as the authority determines the problems, prescribes the solutions, and rarely teaches new skills.
Whereas “the coach approach” is a collaborative approach where the coach acts as a partner and an ally encouraging the client to explore their own solutions, so they become the expert of their journey towards optimal health and wellness.
Which would you rather have as an ally the coach or the expert?
“The Functional Medicine Coaching Academy (FMCA) is the only coach training program founded in collaboration with The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), the global leader in Functional Medicine. FMCA teaches a comprehensive curriculum, integrating the principles of Functional Medicine and nutrition with positive psychology coaching techniques, mind-body medicine, and the psychology of eating. This program is the gold standard in health coaching.”
Meet Your Functional Medicine Health Coach
Shortly after being diagnosed with RRMS in 2019, Kevin was fortunate enough to discover the power of Functional Medicine. Kevin now shares the healing power of Functional Medicine with others who are ready to reclaim their health and wellness
Kevin is a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach (FMCA - 2022). Immediately after graduation, he completed Dr. Terry Wahls's certification program to become a Certified Wahls Health Practitioner (CWHP). In 2023, Kevin furthered his training by becoming a Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC).
Kevin’s journey living with MS, his commitment, experience, and education in Functional Medicine, has made him a great ally for clients working through difficult protocols.
When not working with clients transforming their health, you can find Kevin adventuring in the outdoors doing what he loves. Kevin enjoys rock climbing, canyoneering, mountain biking, hiking, snowboarding, and teaching yoga at multiple studios in Albuquerque, NM.
Schedule a Free 20 Minute Discovery Call
Your journey toward reclaiming your health starts today! Fill out the form below and schedule a Free 20-minute discovery call with a Functional Medicine Health Coach.
We look forward to helping you achieve the results you deserve.
