Become an Integrative
Health Coach
This immersive program trains veterans to develop the communication, behavior-change, and coaching skills to help people build healthier, more sustainable lives.
Program at a Glance
- 19 days on UHP’s Northwest Arkansas campus
- Train alongside other veterans
- Complete an NBHWC-approved education program
- Practice real coaching conversations
- Prepare for national board certification
- Housing and meals provided
Build the skills the work requires
The program combines coaching theory with repeated practice, instructor feedback, and real client-centered conversations.
Coaching Presence and Communication
Create a grounded coaching environment through active listening, empathy, clear communication, and thoughtful inquiry.
Motivational Interviewing
Use client-centered dialogue to help people identify their own motivations, strengths, and reasons for change.
Goal-Setting and Accountability
Help clients establish realistic goals, build practical action plans, and maintain progress over time.
Behavior Change and Habit Formation
Understand how habits form and apply evidence-based strategies that support sustainable behavior change.
Health and Lifestyle Foundations
Explore how movement, nutrition, recovery, stress, environment, and daily choices influence overall well-being.
Ethics and Professional Practice
Learn coaching boundaries, session structure, ethical decision-making, and the professional standards expected of health coaches.
Credentials & certifications
Complete the program with an approved education pathway, practical coaching experience, and preparation for the next step toward national board certification.
- UHP Integrative Health Coach Certificate
- Completion of an NBHWC-approved education program
- Motivational interviewing
- Client-centered coaching conversations
- Goal-setting and accountability
- Behavior-change strategies
- Seven recorded coaching sessions
- Instructor feedback and peer coaching
- The next steps in the NBHWC board-certification process
- One-on-one health coaching
- Group coaching and wellness programs
- Coaching within fitness, healthcare, leadership, or human performance roles
- Independent coaching and client-based services
Successful completion of the UHP Integrative Health Coach program satisfies the approved education component of the NBHWC pathway and prepares graduates to begin working in health-coaching roles. Board certification is awarded by NBHWC only after the candidate completes all current eligibility requirements and passes the national board examination.
Train, live, and learn on campus
The full program takes place on UHP’s Northwest Arkansas campus, with training, housing, meals, and daily support provided in one immersive environment.
Where this training can take you
Integrative health coaching can support client work, wellness programs, healthcare collaboration, leadership, community health, and independent coaching.
Work Directly With Clients
Help individuals define goals, strengthen healthy habits, navigate barriers, and maintain accountability.
Support Health and Wellness Programs
Contribute to corporate wellness, community health, employee well-being, and population-health initiatives.
Complement an Existing Profession
Add coaching skills to work in fitness, nutrition, healthcare, military support, leadership, or human performance.
Build a Coaching Practice
Develop independent coaching services, group programs, workshops, or an education-based wellness business.
Career paths depend on experience, board-certification status, employer requirements, professional scope, and location. Health coaches do not diagnose medical conditions, prescribe treatment, or replace licensed healthcare professionals.
Your 19-day path
UHP’s Integrative Health Coach program gives veterans an immersive 19-day path toward behavior-change coaching, practical client experience, and professional direction in health and wellness.
Foundations & Communication
Build a foundation in health coaching principles, client communication, and motivational interviewing.
Behavior Change & Wellness
Learn habit formation, goal-setting, lifestyle factors, and whole-person wellness strategies.
Coaching & Career Application
Practice real coaching conversations while developing the business, career, and client-management skills needed to work professionally.
Hear from veterans who completed IHC
Continue building your skill set
IHC can stand alone, but students who want to expand into fitness or culinary nutrition may return to UHP for a separate CPT or CNC program. Each develops a different skill set across coaching, behavior change, fitness, and nutrition.
IHC questions, answered
Help people turn intention into action
Build the practical coaching skills to guide behavior change, support healthier habits, and create meaningful progress with clients.