Pg. 4 2025-26 Health & Wellness Magazine Lincoln Daily News What Is Health Coaching? An Interview with Health and Wellness Coach Marci D’Andrea, MS, LDN, CNS What is health coaching? Health coaching fills the gap between the physician’s time. Health coaching helps you to apply the tools and strategies you need to apply between visits to the provider. If there are six months between doctor visits and you want to improve blood sugar so you do not have to go on insulin, a health coach can guide you. A health coach could meet with a client once a week or every two weeks. As a health coach, I am there to help and educate, so when you go back to the physician in six months your situation has changed because you did something about it. Just like a kid has a sports coach, people do better when we have encouragement and check-ins. If something is not working then we can find a different strategy. In health coaching we focus on things like more nourishing foods, stress management, exercise, sleep habits, and mindset. We would work on all those pieces. It is not about being on a diet. It is about eating nourishing foods and eating fewer processed foods. If you add more specific nutritional counseling to your health coaching, we can do a deeper dive into nutrition counseling (medical nutrition therapy) and look at blood work and labs. I am licensed in Illinois for nutrition, but I can work with out-of-state clients within regulations as a health coach, depending on the regulations of the state. In those cases I can make suggestions versus being directive. Who would benefit from health coaching? Anyone who is having a shift in health in a negative way or with a chronic situation that they cannot resolve or improve would benefit from health coaching. If a person is on one or more medications, if there is a diagnosis of something, or if someone just wants to feel better and improve how they feel, he or she would benefit from health coaching. What services do you provide as a health coach? I offer individualized health coaching, individualized nutrition health coaching, and True Cellular Detox. I provide workshops, for example, for a business or a women’s retreat for one or two days. Workshops can be faith-based and Christian focused or not focused on faith. I can come to a group and do a 45 minute presentation about health coaching or other topics. I can teach mental fitness training to individuals or to small groups to reduce negative self-talk, become more confident, and become more peaceful in 60 days. The variety of options that I offer are on my website. Everything starts with a Discovery call– a 15 to 20 minute chat, scheduled online through Continued --
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