Wellness Coaching Partnerships for Providers
|
Integrative coaching that helps patients turn your recommended lifestyle changes into realistic daily habits
|
|
|
|
|
My wellness coaching support is designed to integrate smoothly and align with your specific recommendations without adding extra administrative work.
|
How I Support Your Practice
I support provider practices with personalized coaching tailored to each patient’s needs and care recommendations.
|
Common areas of focus include:
|
|
Partnering with me can:
- Improve patient outcomes by supporting meaningful lifestyle and habit change
- Reduce redundancy in clinical appointments and outreach related to lifestyle and health behavior conversations
- Increase patient satisfaction with their care by adding supportive coaching touchpoints with progress-focused reflections between visits
- Provide consistent communication that reinforces and aligns with your practice’s care model and philosophy
- Support a preventative care approach to patient health and wellbeing
|
"Rita is a true professional and highly skilled at helping clients create and meet individualized wellness goals by forming healthy habits that they’re able to maintain for years to come. She has such a warm presence and takes the time to understand her clients." - Cassie N., Concierge Practice Partner |
How Partnership Works
Practice Referral Partnership
|
Collaborative Care PartnershipFor practices seeking a more integrated, ongoing option. This option can include:
The Collaborative Care Partnership is a retainer or shared-cost model (depending on structure and patient group). |
Approach & Coaching Framework |
|
My integrative approach to wellness coaching is grounded in evidence-based principles, including:
Within this framework, my sessions often focus on:
|
My coaching approach supports consistent, real-world behavior change and builds skills patients can carry forward long after coaching ends, reinforcing the care they are already receiving from you.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is wellness coaching different from therapy?
While coaching includes meaningful self-reflection, it is not within the coaching scope of practice to explore past traumas or treat mental health conditions. Wellness coaching focuses on the present and how to move forward, rather than reflect on a client’s history in depth. Should a client find they need support beyond my scope, I refer them to vetted therapy practices and support them in the process of connecting with a therapist. The collaborative care between therapist and wellness coach can be meaningful in client progress.
How is wellness coaching different from working with a registered dietitian and personal trainer?
Although I may provide basic health and wellness education and resources, it is not within my scope of practice to prescribe nutrition or fitness treatment plans. Rather, I collaborate with clients to help them implement the recommendations of registered dietitians and fitness professionals through realistic goal-setting and habit development. I have several RD’s and fitness professionals I may refer clients to. Or, when working with a clinical practice, I can refer to their preferred dietitians and personal trainers.
Which patients are usually a good fit for coaching?
Coaching is often a good fit for patients who understand their care plan but feel stuck on follow-through, motivation, or consistency. Many are navigating stress, psychosocial roadblocks, limited time and energy, and life transitions that make lifestyle change more complex. They are generally open to reflection, willing to try small experiments between sessions, and interested in building skills rather than looking for a quick fix. Patients in acute crisis or in need of specialized clinical treatment are better served by therapy or other clinical services.
How do referrals work?
For providers seeking a collaborative care approach, I offer two partnership models designed to support both patient outcomes and clinical workflows. The Practice Referral Partnership provides a flexible referral option in which patients contact me directly and, with their consent, we stay connected around goals, progress, and relevant care priorities.
For practices interested in a more streamlined integration, the Collaborative Care Partnership offers a more structured model. This includes a defined group of patients, a retainer or shared-cost arrangement, and a clear communication plan to support ongoing coordination and continuity of care.
However, you do not need a formal partnership to refer patients. Referrals can be as simple as an introduction email or sharing my contact information with individual patients who may benefit from additional support between visits.
For practices interested in a more streamlined integration, the Collaborative Care Partnership offers a more structured model. This includes a defined group of patients, a retainer or shared-cost arrangement, and a clear communication plan to support ongoing coordination and continuity of care.
However, you do not need a formal partnership to refer patients. Referrals can be as simple as an introduction email or sharing my contact information with individual patients who may benefit from additional support between visits.
How do fees work? Do you bill insurance?
My practice is a private-pay service. In a Practice Referral Partnership, referred patients pay me directly and receive the benefit of preferred rates. In a Collaborative Care Partnership, coaching is typically included within a retainer or program-based arrangement that your practice sponsors or subsidizes.
Without a formal partnership, individual patients may pay per session or purchase coaching packages. I also reserve a limited number of sliding-scale spots for patients with financial constraints. I’m happy to discuss which model best fits your practice structure and patient population.
Without a formal partnership, individual patients may pay per session or purchase coaching packages. I also reserve a limited number of sliding-scale spots for patients with financial constraints. I’m happy to discuss which model best fits your practice structure and patient population.
What does a typical coaching engagement look like?
Engagements are flexible and tailored to the client’s scope of behavior change and the time it takes to stabilize new habits. Early sessions focus on understanding the patient’s life circumstances and desire for change, clarifying priorities that align with your recommendations, and identifying small, incremental goals. Follow-up sessions review progress, troubleshoot barriers, and adjust goals as needed, with the aim of building confidence and skills the patient can carry forward long term. Frequency can be tailored to the patient and practice, often starting weekly or bi-weekly and then tapering as skills and confidence grow.
What does the research say about wellness coaching and your approach?
A growing body of research suggests that health and wellness coaching can improve outcomes related to chronic disease management, health behaviors, and quality of life by focusing on behavior change, self-efficacy, and patient engagement. For example, studies published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings and other peer-reviewed journals have found that adding health coaching to usual care can improve outcomes related to weight, physical activity, and patients’ perceived quality of life see Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2014 and The Impact of Health Coaching on Weight and Physical Activity in Obese Adults: A Randomized Control Trial).
My approach is grounded in these evidence-based principles and draws on established frameworks such as the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change, motivational interviewing, positive psychology, polyvagal theory, and trauma-informed care. In practical terms, this means helping patients feel safer, more supported, and more confident in their ability to change, which in turn makes it more likely they will follow through on the care plan you have created.
My approach is grounded in these evidence-based principles and draws on established frameworks such as the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change, motivational interviewing, positive psychology, polyvagal theory, and trauma-informed care. In practical terms, this means helping patients feel safer, more supported, and more confident in their ability to change, which in turn makes it more likely they will follow through on the care plan you have created.
