Supporting Clients Who Bring Lab and Biomarker Information to Coaching


This course equips health coaches with advanced tools to personalize client care through the lens of functional health data. Integrating insights from genetics and epigenetics, gut and stool biomarkers, and metabolic lab results, participants will learn how to utilize complex biological information and translate it into meaningful, client-centered strategies. Emphasis is placed on empowering coaches to support individualized health goals through science-informed, holistic approaches all while staying within a coach's scope of practice.

Approved for 4.5 CEs with NBHWC (Course Code: CEA-100119-1 )
Learning Objectives
  • Describe, at a general educational level, the types of information that may be included in genetic and epigenetic reports, while recognizing that interpretation and individualized recommendations belong to an appropriately licensed healthcare professional.
  • Apply coaching skills to explore a client’s understanding, questions, values, and goals related to gut and stool biomarker information that has been interpreted by their licensed healthcare provider.
  • Support clients in establishing and following behavior change goals based on recommendations provided by their licensed healthcare professionals.
  • Recognize when conversations involving laboratory or biomarker information require referral and maintain appropriate professional boundaries.
  • Use coaching communication skills to support client autonomy, help clients formulate questions for their healthcare providers, and integrate provider recommended lifestyle changes into their daily lives.

Meet our educators

All of our instructors are highly qualified professionals, widely acknowledged in their field. 

Monique Class, APRN-BC, IFMCP, NBC-HWC, AHNCC

Patrick Hanaway, MD, IFMCP

Yael Joffe, PhD

Shilpa P. Saxena, MD, IFMCP

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