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Certificate of Health and Wellness Coaching

The Certificate of Health and Wellness Coaching equips you with practical, evidence-based coaching skills to support physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. You’ll learn how to guide clients using motivational interviewing, goal setting, habit change, and client-centred coaching frameworks grounded in psychology and lifestyle science. Ideal for aspiring health and wellness coaches or professionals looking to add coaching to their existing role, this course builds confidence to work ethically, support behaviour change, and help clients achieve sustainable, holistic health outcomes.
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Delivery Method
100% Online
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Study Hours
50 hours
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Course Access
12 Months

Do you want to help people improve their physical, mental, and emotional well-being? Whether you aspire to become a health and wellness coach or want to add coaching to your current career, this course will allow you to make a real difference.

The Certificate of Health and Wellness Coaching is a professional development course that explores the holistic model of well-being, evidence-based lifestyle interventions, and motivational frameworks that promote sustainable behavioural change.

In this health and wellness coaching course, you’ll learn key skills like active listening, powerful questioning, and motivational interviewing to create a client-centred environment. You’ll also explore coaching processes, goal-setting techniques, journaling, habit tracking, and visualisation exercises to support clients in their health journeys.

You will learn about mental health concepts such as resilience, work-life balance, psychological disorders, and the importance of supportive relationships. You will also explore practices and ethics related to confidentiality, duty of care, mandatory reporting, networking, and reflective practice in health and wellness coaching.

On completion of this course, you will feel confident to support clients in achieving holistic health goals within ethical and professional boundaries.

Printed learning materials may be available free to print for this course. Requests can be made by contacting us. 

Course Structure
Certificate of Wellness and Health Coaching

Unit 1: Introduction to Health And Wellness Coaching             

  • Introduction to health and wellness coaching
  • Definition and scope of health and wellness coaching
  • Roles and responsibilities of a coach
  • Coaching vs counselling vs consulting
  • The Australian health system

Unit 2: Foundations of Health and Wellness      

  • Foundations of health and wellness
  • The holistic model of wellbeing
  • Evidence-based guidelines
  • Sleep
  • Stress management
  • Chronic disease risk and lifestyle interventions
  • The role of lifestyle interventions

Unit 3: Behavioural Change

  • Behavioural change
  • Theories of behaviour change
  • The transtheoretical model
  • Self-determination theory
  • Goal setting frameworks
  • The smart goal framework
  • Values-based goal setting
  • Building intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy
  • Intrinsic motivation
  • Barriers to change
  • Coaching strategies to address barriers

Unit 4: Communication Skills for Coaches

  • Communication skills for coaches
  • Active listening
  • Powerful questioning techniques
  • Powerful coaching questions
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Create a client-centred coaching environment
  • Physical safety
  • Psychological safety
  • Practical coaching strategies for a safe environment
  • Building rapport
  • Establishing trust
  • Creating accountability

Unit 5: Coaching Process and Methods  

  • Coaching process and methods
  • Stage 1: Intake
  • Stage 2: Goal-Setting
  • Stage 3: Action Planning
  • Stage 4: Review
  • Coaching tools and techniques
  • Journalling
  • Types of coaching journals
  • Journalling in action
  • Habit tracking
  • Visualisation exercises
  • Types of visualisation

Unit 6: Mental Health and Wellbeing

  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • The importance of mental health
  • Mental health vs. Mental illness
  • Biological factors influencing mental health
  • Biology of mental health conditions
  • Psychological factors influencing mental health
  • Social and environmental factors influencing mental health
  • Mental wellbeing
  • Resilience
  • Work-life balance
  • Positive psychology and mental wellbeing
  • Psychological disorders
  • Common mental health disorders
  • The importance of supportive relationships
  • The effects of social isolation
  • Stigma and mental health

Unit 7: Professional Practice and Ethics

  • Professional practice and ethics
  • Scope of practice
  • Confidentiality, privacy, and ethics
  • Duty of care and mandatory reporting
  • Networking
  • Feedback and reflective practice
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Estimated Duration
50 hours
Course Delivery and Start
Start anytime, self-paced and 100% online
Assessment

Assessment will be comprised of written exercises, including short-answer questions, reflective tasks, short reports and/or projects. There are no examinations or due dates for assessment. As a result, you can complete training in your own time and at your own pace with the assistance of unlimited tutor support.

Approval and Recognition

Australian Online Courses Pty Ltd is an approved and recognised member of IARC. The IARC is an International association that recognises quality and excellence in tertiary education providers.

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Career Outcomes
  • Wellness Coach
  • Health Coach
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Certificate of Health and Wellness Coaching
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Graduation

A Certificate of Attainment and Statement of Results will be issued upon successful completion of this course.

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There are no course or subject pre-requisites for entry into our programs. However, our professional development programs are generally intended for people over the age of 18 with a competent level of English. For those under 18, please complete the Parent/Guardian Consent Form before enrolling.

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This course is delivered online via our easy-to-navigate Learning Management System (LMS), where you will discover interactive online learning/written content, resources and assessment.

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Yes! We accept enrolments from individuals both within Australia and internationally; location is no barrier to entry into our programs.

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