Health Coaching in Chapel Hill & Durham NC
Brief Description
A health coach partners with you to cultivate and maintain healthy habits, guiding goal setting, providing tools, and ensuring accountability to enhance your path to optimal health and wellness.
Benefits
A health coach offers personalized support to help individuals achieve wellness goals, fostering positive changes and empowering them to lead healthier, fulfilling lives.
Treatment
In a health coach session, you'll participate in dialogue, goal-setting, and exploration to address health concerns, receiving personalized guidance and accountability to support your well-being journey.
What is a health coach?
A Health Coach is a professional who uses evidence-based conversation and strategies to engage patients in behavior change that improves their health. Health coaches help clients achieve their health goals and empower them to integrate healthy habits into their lifestyles. Together, you and your coach will devise goals and the strategies necessary to achieve them.
Who are the IMCNC health coaches?
Christine Phillips, who is both a Registered Nurse (RN) and a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach (FMCHC). Christine is cross-trained in foundational functional medicine principles and health coaching techniques. As a Functional Medicine Health Coach and nurse, she focuses on whole person wellness and helps clients achieve their lifestyle and wellness goals through patient-directed behavior changes via a patient-centered process. She engages and empowers each patient as an active participant/owner in their overall state, sense of wellbeing and their personal vision of wellness. Christine works primarily with membership patients, but is open for Pay-Per-Service patients as well.
Cherry Pfau is an Advanced Practice Holistic Registered Nurse and Healing Touch Practitioner offering Integrative Health Coaching and NES Health Bioenergetic Scanning. Cherry has been in nursing for 40+ years and is a graduate of the Integrative Health Coach Professional Training at Duke Integrative Medicine. She has extensive knowledge of a variety of holistic therapies. Cherry loves to work with women struggling with fatigue, foggy brain and frustration about health concerns to help them understand the root cause of what is behind those symptoms, recharge their batteries for energy, focus and new control over their health. Cherry works exclusively with Pay-Per-Service patients.
What happens during health coaching?
Our Functional Medicine Health Coaches partners with you to co-create healthy and sustainable and modifiable lifestyle habits and changes in the areas of:
- Nutrition and Detoxification
- Sleep and Restoration
- Stress Management
- Relationships and Connection
- Movement and Physical Activity
Interventions target behavior changes aligned with the goals that are meaningful to you. Your coach will listen, guide and support you through this change process, which includes setting goals, providing feedback, and identifying obstacles, barriers and blindspots. She will assist you in working through day-to-day challenges that arise as you begin or continue on your journey toward health and wellness. Your Functional Medicine Health Coach will serve to motivate, inspire and provide accountability to you when you implement new lifestyle changes.
Your coach will help you explore and experiment with behaviors that improve your health with a focus on supporting actions that promote wellness – not just the absence of disease – and on those actions that help you to live the healthy, happy and fulfilling life that you envision for yourself. IMC’s Functional Medicine Health Coach helps you to understand and gain clarity about your “why” and assists you in aligning your habits and behaviors with your core values and goals, and becoming clear on your vision of optimal health and wellness. Through the process, you will learn to make intentional choices that serve you rather than unconscious choices that put you further off your chosen wellness track.
The process of health coaching involves
- Active listening, empathy, motivational inquiry and asking open ended questions.
- Exploring your strengths and how they play into successes and choices.
- Setting weekly, biweekly or monthly health goals that are individualized, specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time sensitive.
- Providing tools and accountability when you implement new lifestyle changes.
- Educating you and helping you understand your provider’s plan of care.
- Motivating you using positive psychology techniques.
- Collaborating directly with your IMC Provider when appropriate.
- Celebrating successes and encouraging progress.
- Supporting and empowering you to make successful behavior changes in your daily routines that serve to promote mental wellbeing, healthy mindset and lifestyle.
- Engaging you as an active participant/owner in your overall state and sense of wellbeing and your vision of wellness.
What does health coaching cost?
IMC does not accept insurance as of January 1, 2024. Health Coaching may be reimbursable through your FSA or HSA account – we recommend you ask your plan administrators for confirmation of this.
IMC’s Membership Plan includes Health Coaching at no additional cost when referred by your IMC provider. More information on the Membership Plan is available here.
For non-members, fees are as follows:
- In-person Intake and Orientation Visit – 90 minutes – $175
- In-person or virtual Follow-up Visit – 60 minutes – $125
Behavior changes and development of new habits typically take 3- 6 months to solidify.
Working with your coach may be short term for specific wellness goals or long term for continued habit building and multiple goals in different areas of wellness.
Ready to get started with health coaching?
Click “Book a Health Coaching Appointment” to contact Christine or Cherry to begin your journey to a healthier you!
Lee G.
Whether in person or via televideo, this group is hands down the best I’ve found in the area with the exceptional combination of head, heart, and hands. That they are alopathically and naturopathically trained and proficient is the frosting on the cake! I continue to be impressed by their high standards of excellence, and thorough investigative skills since first discovering them several years ago. I feel privileged to have crossed paths with this group, especially Dr. McGregor. Her smile lights up a whole room. You’re in for a real treat!
Anny G.
Cynthia L.
I flew across the country to consult with this team of highly trained physicians. With a complicated health history and frustrated with relying solely on traditional methodologies, I sought out this clinic for the physicians’s holistic approach to treating patients. The environment is warm and welcoming, the physicians are extremely thorough and deeply caring. I strongly recommend at least a consultation to any patient seeking alternative care options.
Mackenzie B.
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Jessica F.
I have finally found a doctor who listens and wants to help! They were open to giving me more natural alternatives, instead of pushing stronger meds with more side effects. They seem to genuinely want to correct the root causes of my medical issues instead of just putting a band aid on them. I feel so relieved to have found such a great office! The doctor offered so many simple recommendations that already have me feeling much better and more like myself. Definitely recommend. You won’t be disappointed.
Dena B.
After years of being told that symptoms that I was suffering from were “normal” for a woman my age and feeling dismissed by past doctors, I had extensive blood work as well as other testing done to confirm that there was a deep rooted problem which caused many other health issues. Diligence has paid off and after a year of working with Addie I am feeling better not just physically but mentally as well. She has always been very transparent with her approach and has educated me to understand better how the systems of our bodies work together. I have never felt so heard by a medical professional and for that alone, they deserve full credit!
Teresa W.
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Jill M.
I am a strong believer in using natural medicine whenever possible but I like having doctors that have the training to use either or both natural/holistic and conventional medicine.
The office has calming esthetics unlike most medical settings.
Thank you for creating a great practice that is patient centered!
Emily T.
Mary W.
Three generations of my family receive solutions and preventative pathways to health at IMCNC.
The IMCNC practice delivers extended healthcare services delivered by skilled practitioners. I have experienced benefit from both expert medical intervention and improved sleep and skin, plus experiencing elimination of pain and inflammation by using red light therapy. I feel calm and confident every time I visit IMCNC.
Anny G.
Emily H.
Addie Skow is the most knowledgeable and compassionate Dr. I have ever seen. She tailors her care for my specific issues, which do not have a straightforward diagnosis (endocrine and hormonal problems). She knows how to treat subtle things, and overt problems in a wholistic way. I cannot sing her praises enough. I am so grateful for her and this practice!
Tyler F.
Jessica F.
If you are looking for a phenomenal practice, this is definitely the place! The staff, doctors and nurses are all wonderful. Addie Skow took her time and explained things so well. I felt like I finally got answers after years of frustration and lots of wasted visits other places. Give this place a try! You won’t be disappointed!
