FAQs:

~ How long is your Health Coaching program?

Currently, I am offering an introductory program where we meet weekly, 30 minutes per week for 3 months. Programs and offerings will be expanding over time.

~ What is your pricing?

As a Coach-IIN-Training, I am offering a limited number of clients the opportunity to enroll on a sliding scale system. If you’d like to work together, we can discuss this further during our initial consultation, which is complimentary and takes less than 1 hour.

~ What are some of the things people work on?

People have all sorts of dreams and things they’d like to work on. Some of my specialties include, but are not limited to: incorporating more whole food into meals, finding movement that works for your needs, sleep hygiene, stress reduction and connecting with nature in everyday living. These are big topics! I meet you where you are, whether you are just at the starting line or you've been working towards your aspirations for years.

~ How do I do a consultation with you?

Easy! Send me a message through the contact button on the home page of this website. I’ll take it from there and guide your through the process :)

~ What other offerings do you have beside your coaching program and The Wellbeing Book Club?

Still developing, please check back soon!

~ I have another question, how can I reach you directly?

Please feel free to contact me via the contact button on my homepage or send me a message on instagram @justine_bacon.

Scope of Practice:

Health and wellness coaches engage individuals and groups in evidence-based, client-centered processes that facilitate and empower clients to develop and achieve self-determined health and wellness goals.

Coaches assist clients to use their own insight, personal strengths, and resources to set goals, commit to action steps, and establish accountability in building an envisioned healthy lifestyle. In this way, coaches empower clients through encouragement, exploration, the mobilization of internal strengths, the identification and utilization of external resources, and through the support and development of self-management strategies for executing sustainable, healthy lifestyle changes.

The coach’s role is one of accountability partner, not director, in navigating behavioral change and exploring opportunities for growth and development. As facilitators of the behavior change process, health and wellness coaches support clients to achieve self-directed goals and behavioral changes consistent with the client’s vision for health and wellbeing, informed by any treatment plans prescribed by the client’s professional healthcare team. When appropriate, health and wellness coaches may offer evidence-based resources or information from nationally recognized authorities. Additionally, when working under the license of a qualified medical or allied health professional (e.g., physician, psychologist, physical therapist), health and wellness coaches may support the implementation of those professionals’ treatment plans. On their own, however, coaches themselves do not diagnose, interpret medical data, prescribe or de-prescribe, recommend supplements, provide nutrition consultation or create meal plans, provide exercise prescription or instruction, consult and advise, or provide psychological therapeutic interventions* or treatment.

Health and wellness coaches who hold additional, active, national or state-recognized credentials may provide expert support and guidance within their professional scope for that credential; however, disclosure of the professional role and potential conflicts of interest must be discussed with the client and documented from the onset of a professional relationship. Health and wellness coaches should only function in dual roles with conscious intention and by clearly outlining both professional capacities, through discussion and documentation, as well as defining the boundaries of each.

Further, health and wellness coaches must be well-versed in the professional capacity of each role, including the limits of knowledge and skills respective to each role, understand and demonstrate how to work within the limits of each professional role, and comply with all guiding ethical principles to ensure client interests and needs are at the forefront of the coach-client partnership.

*Therapeutic interventions are methods by which relevant, qualified professionals attempt remediation of a diagnosed medical or mental health condition, guided by the indications and contraindications noted for the intervention itself. Examples of therapeutic interventions provided in the context of treatment include, but are not limited to: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Solution Focused Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems Therapy, and other such therapies and treatments relevant to the treatment of diagnosed medical and mental health conditions.

Prepared by NBHWC