Lifestyle First coaches are on the professional register of health coaches accredited by the UKIHCA
The UKIHCA is a leading professional body for Health Coaches in the UK and internationally. Members of the UKIHCA are fully qualified and credentialed professionals who have satisfied our robust professional standards and work within a defined Scope of Practice.
The UKIHCA want to see:
- A self-empowered population, managing their health and wellbeing to thrive in life.
- A Health Coach in every public and private health care and physical activity settings, in workplaces, in education and in communities.
They believe that:
- People’s capacity for change makes true health and wellbeing within everybody’s reach and that people deserve the time, consideration and space necessary to help them unlock their own capacity for healing and to become self-empowered architects in their own health
- A ‘whole-health’ approach which considers not only the bio-psycho-emotional-social-environmental and the multiple wider determinants of health, but also the existential/spiritual wholeness of purpose and meaning that is a human life, is fundamental to sustaining lifestyle and behaviour change
- Collaboration, partnership, trust, respect and an absence of judgement lay at the heart of all relationships and of good governance.
They are dedicated to:
- Raising the awareness and understanding of all parts of society, of the role of health coaching as a powerful, evidence-based modality for preventing, and potentially reversing, chronic, lifestyle-related conditions
- Advancing professionalism in health coaching and supporting the provision and development of high-quality health coaching education and training
- Setting and maintaining robust education, training and course delivery standards for health coaching training programmes
- Approving health, wellness and wellbeing training programmes which meet our robust standards
- Advancing the development health coaching knowledge and skills education in related healthcare modalities and inevery sector where health coaching happens
- Supporting the continuing professional development and career progression of health coaches.
UKIHCA Registered Health Coaches and UKIHCA-Approved Full Members are qualified and credentialled health coaches, a number of whom are medically and clinically qualified health professionals, who are uniquely equipped with the knowledge and skills to support and self-empower individuals to make sustainable lifestyle and behaviour changes to improve their health outcomes.