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A health coach package is ideal if you’re keen for a minimum of three-months of high support and accountability. The three-month period starts from your first session.
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Why choose this service
Making the necessary changes for optimal health can be challenging, which is why our practitioners recommend working with a health coach to implement your health strategy. Coaching expands your healthcare team, ensuring meaningful change by identifying your most motivating goals, harnessing your ‘why,’ making insightful observations along the way.
When working with a coach, you can receive valuable resources, health education, and nutrition support while identifying barriers and leveraging your strengths. The process includes non-judgemental accountability and mitigating sabotaging thoughts or behaviours, along with a good dose of encouragement along the way. Choosing this service over session to session style provides our highest level of lifestyle support.
Why choose this service
Making the necessary changes for optimal health can be challenging, which is why our practitioners recommend working with a health coach to implement your health strategy. Coaching expands your healthcare team, ensuring meaningful change by identifying your most motivating goals, harnessing your ‘why,’ making insightful observations along the way.
When working with a coach, you can receive valuable resources, health education, and nutrition support while identifying barriers and leveraging your strengths. The process includes non-judgemental accountability and mitigating sabotaging thoughts or behaviours, along with a good dose of encouragement along the way. Choosing this service over session to session style provides our highest level of lifestyle support.
Is this service for you?
This service is ideal if you’re an existing patient who has not yet upgraded to include health coaching, or if you’re completely new to the Melbourne Functional Medicine clinic. Sessions are held via phone or video.
However, health coaching may not be suitable if you’re seeking practitioner only advice or a functional medicine treatment plan. In that case, consider an optimisation kickstart session with a practitioner.
Is this service for you?
This service is ideal if you’re an existing patient who has not yet upgraded to include health coaching, or if you’re completely new to the Melbourne Functional Medicine clinic. Sessions are held via phone or video.
However, health coaching may not be suitable if you’re seeking practitioner only advice or a functional medicine treatment plan. In that case, consider an optimisation kickstart session with a practitioner.
Why choose Melbourne Functional Medicine
Working with a health coach from the Melbourne Functional Medicine team guarantees a high level of expertise in functional medicine combined with extensive professional health coaching experience.
All of our coaches hold additional qualifications and are members of HCANZA, Australia’s highest level of coaching accreditation, ensuring exceptional service that delivers proven results.
If you start your journey with us via coaching, it’s a smooth transition to access the services of advanced functional testing, optimisation or root-cause healthcare.
Why choose Melbourne Functional Medicine
Working with a health coach from the Melbourne Functional Medicine team guarantees a high level of expertise in functional medicine combined with extensive professional health coaching experience.
All of our coaches hold additional qualifications and are members of HCANZA, Australia’s highest level of coaching accreditation, ensuring exceptional service that delivers proven results.
If you start your journey with us via coaching, it’s a smooth transition to access the services of advanced functional testing, optimisation or root-cause healthcare.
Frequently
Asked
Questions
What happens in a health coaching session?
In your first session, your coach will discuss your health goals, any current practitioner-led recommendations, what area of lifestyle support you need and work on determining your next best action.
Actions are ‘stress tested’ to ensure they are realistic, specific and support you to gain a high level of confidence in your ability to execute on them.
If you do not have specific goals, your coach can support you in reviewing your current lifestyle habits and co-creating a plan to move towards health habits that you want to embed into your every day.
What is health coaching?
Health coaching is a method used by certified experts in behaviour change, mindset, and habits to guide people towards desired health outcomes. This approach involves stages and tools based on motivational interviewing, self-determination theory, positive psychology, social cognition, emotional intelligence, and neuroscience.
In health optimisation, these experts might be known as biohacking, longevity, or lifestyle coaches. While anyone can call themselves a coach, only those with approved training, relevant insurance, and continuous education can be HCANZA accredited. At Melbourne Functional Medicine, all our health coaches meet these standards, reflecting our commitment to integrity and excellence.
Health coaching is facilitative, not prescriptive. According to Wellness Coaching Australia, it is a “client-centred, collaborative intervention aimed at supporting sustainable lifestyle change. Clients set their goals, with the coach providing skills and knowledge to support the change process.”
Similar to executive, mindset, leadership, and life coaches, health coaches offer guidance and support for change and development, using proven methods to help individuals achieve their goals.
What kind of lifestyle support can a health coach help with?
Health coaches at Melbourne Functional Medicine are trained in the health pillars of:
Nutrition
Sleep
Recovery
Stress management techniques
Movement
And additionally can support patients with:
Using wearable technology
Using CGMs
Functional lab testing
What is out of scope for a health coach?
Health coaching is not therapy. It is not counselling, nor is it a “talk fest”.
Health coaching is not a lifestyle prescription. Health coaches take the lifestyle prescription provided by the health professional, often your functional medicine practitioner or integrative GP, and work together with you to ensure it is implemented.
Coaches are bound by a professional scope of practice. They do not:
Diagnose medical or psychiatric conditions
Develop treatment plans
Provide psychotherapy
Order or interpret lab testing
Recommend supplements
While they always show up in support of you, a coach will never:
Make a change for you
Nag you
Be responsible for your change
Health is complex, requiring clinicians to undergo years of training and practice. Health coaches operate distinctly from primary healthcare providers to ensure safety. They avoid giving advice, treatment plans, or diagnoses, leaving these tasks to qualified professionals.
Health coaches are not fitness coaches
Patients often think health coaches are like fitness coaches, but their roles are different. Fitness coaches provide both the plan and hands-on implementation, guiding you every step of the way.
Health coaches, however, can’t be with you 24/7 as you implement your health plan. They don’t manage your daily routines or remind you of every task. Instead, during your sessions, they help you create a clear action plan, identify barriers, and boost your motivation. This way, you can make meaningful changes on your own time.
What is it like to work with a coach?
If you have an EA or PA, you know the benefits of having someone support you and keep you on track. At Melbourne Functional Medicine, working with a coach to optimise your health is optional but highly recommended. In your initial session, you’ll review your health strategy and medium-term goals, breaking them into actionable steps.
Coaching can be scheduled on an ad-hoc basis or bundled into a three-month package with weekly appointments and digital message access. If you want to add a coach to your team, just let your practitioner or concierge know.
How do I know I’m ready to work with a coach?
If you can answer ‘yes’ to each of the questions, you know you’re ready to work with a health coach to optimise your health:
When it comes to feeling ready and willing to make lifestyle changes, on a scale of 1-10, (10 being most ready and willing) I am at least a 7
I take full responsibility and ownership over my health choices
I am willing to trust the process, whilst I might love to know why, or question things, I am now willing to take the direction of my practitioner and get the guidance to simply make it happen
I am open to being in a health partnership consisting of myself, my practitioner and my coach
I have the energy and capacity for change in that my health is at a good baseline level, and I wish to amplify it
I believe I can sacrifice immediate gratification for the big picture
I understand health optimisation is personalised, n=1 medicine is about being curious, experimenting, tracking learning and having a growth mindset. I am ready and willing for this
If performance, outcomes and health optimisation habits for life are important to you, a health coach is an invaluable addition to your team. Bringing a coach onto your team will allow you to move faster, with more precision and longer-lasting results.
How many health coaching sessions are included in this package?
This package includes up to 12 sessions, along with additional value-added support. Coaching session frequency is customised to you, and could look like:
Weekly 30-minute sessions
Fortnightly sessions of 30 to 60 minutes
Or a combination that best fits your schedule
The value-added support features:
Practitioner-reviewed food plans, personalised recipe guides, and curated resources to enhance your knowledge and health habits
Digital access to your coach between appointments
If you’re also seeing a practitioner, your coach will act as a conduit to your practitioner enabling answers to questions in between appointments.
Can I speak with my health coach in between appointments?
Yes. You’ll be able to directly message your coach for digital support between appointments.
Can my health coach help me to interpret lab data?
Lab data interpretation is not in scope for a health coach, however this is something our practitioners can help with. If that is a service you are interested in, check out our test interpretation service.
Is working with Melbourne Functional Medicine right for me?
You can read more about our values and philosophy on our about page and even more reasons to choose us here.
Do you offer payment plans?
Payment plans are not available for this service.
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