Integrative
Health Coaching
Health coaching provides support for you to identify your personal health goals and create a success-oriented plan for establishing new, healthier habits.
What is a Health Coach?
A Health Coach can be compared to a personal trainer, except the focus is on your whole self, and you create the roadmap for change. The coach supports you by exploring what is most important to you in your life and health. By connecting a desire for change to your life values and vision of optimal health, motivation increases. Your coach helps you identify obstacles to create strategies for moving toward your goals one step at a time as well as monitoring your progress and holding you accountable to your commitments.
Your First Session
We encourage all of our Integrative Life Members to have at least one Integrative Health Coaching session. In this “micro-session,” we move through an abbreviated health coaching process by exploring what your optimal health would look and feel like, what values are important to you, and more. This “check in” is not driven by anyone’s agenda other than your own. For those who want to go deeper into the process, a full health coaching cycle lasts three to six months. Following the introductory session are several one hour appointments then bi-weekly thirty-minute follow ups until the desired goal has been reached.
Our Health Coach
Willow Dorris, NBC-HWC
Integrative Health Coach
YWillow grew up here in southern Appalachia which shaped her love for nature and how she views the world. She studied at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where she earned her bachelor's degree in Healthy Living and Lifetime Fitness with a minor in Yoga Studies and her 200-hour yoga teacher training. Early in her career, she worked as the Healthy Living Coordinator for a community wellness organization. It was here that Willow was inspired to further her studies in holistic health and continued to Hill College where she studied nutrition, clinical herbalism, and health coaching through their Holistic Wellness Pathway. As a Health and Wellness Coach, Willow supports patients as they translate medical recommendations into sustainable lifestyle changes using evidence-based coaching, motivational interviewing, and client-centered goal setting. She is dedicated to helping individuals build confidence, autonomy, and consistency in their health behaviors while honoring their unique values and life circumstances.
In her free time Willow enjoys preparing herbal remedies, studying and teaching yoga, cooking nourishing food, hiking, playing tennis, and reading.
Health Topics
What are appropriate topics for health coaching? Each coaching process is unique. Any concern that feels like it is in the way of realizing your optimal health or desire to cultivate habits that would contribute to your optimal health, is the perfect subject with which to begin coaching. Common topics include reducing stress, losing weight, cultivating a regular exercise routine, developing new eating habits, and more.