171400000X — Health & Wellness Coach

Grouping

Other Service Providers

Classification

Health & Wellness Coach

Specialization

None — this code IS the classification

Section

Individual

Definition

The Health & Wellness Coach is trained in motivational theories, strategies, and communication techniques, which are used to assist patients to develop intrinsic motivation and obtain skills to create sustainable change for improved health and well-being. Health and wellness coaching is a patient-centered approach wherein patients at least partially determine their goals, use self-discovery or active learning processes together with content education to work toward their goals, and self-monitor behaviors to increase accountability, all within the context of an interpersonal relationship with a coach.

NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.