How to become a Professional Health Coach
Professional Health Coaches are critical to helping transition medicine from a reactive model of care to a proactive whole-person view of health.
Do you have a passion for health and wellbeing?
Would you like to do more to help others lead happier, healthier lives?
Perhaps you’re not fulfilled in your current career and instinctively know that you have more to give.
Maybe you’re frustrated with our broken healthcare system operating as the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.
Somehow, you've made it here because, like us, you believe there must be a better way.
Come along to our Health Coach Open Week
Over the last 5 years, we've trained over 800 professional Health Coaches who share our collective goal to deliver meaningful health outcomes through science-led research and evidence-based training.
Many of them were just like you - passionate about health and wellbeing, wanting more.
And now, they are using their training to make a real difference in their own lives and in the lives of others.
Health Coach Open Week
Curious to find out what it takes to become a Professional Health Coach? Then join us at the PREKURE Open Week.
Unlock our biggest enrolment offer of the year!
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Behaviour Change Expert & Entrepreneur
Louise Schofield (PhD)
Louise Schofield is the co-founder and CEO of PREKURE, voted Changemaker Organisation of the Year 2023 by the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine. With a PhD in behaviour change, Louise is a successful entrepreneur, having led businesses in the health education and corporate wellbeing industries.
Louise’s mission is to inspire a change in medicine to be more preventative in focus. Louise's energy, entrepreneurial spirit and visionary leadership is not only challenging and changing healthcare paradigms but also inspiring and enabling countless others to lead healthier, happier, more fulfilling lives.
Registered Nurse and Head Coach
Sonya English
Sonya English is a Critical Care Outreach Nurse Specialist and PREKURE Head Coach. Her vast health experience affords a holistic approach to championing her client’s wellness.
Sonya is a passionate advocate in the proactive prevention of disease and living the best quality of life you can. As a professional coach she believes working with her client’s vision and values to support their movement from where they are now to their desired goal is paramount. Her focus is on her client’s strengths, their lifeworld and untapped awareness to move forward positively and sustainably.
Health Coaching Fundamentals
Professional Health Coaches are skilled at listening to clients and diving deep to help them explore what is really important to them and how they can reach those goals in a sustainable way. It puts patients in a gain mindframe that helps them realise what is possible, and really, anything is.
It is an empowering mode of support and a missing piece of the healthcare puzzle, the piece that enables people to gain the confidence, knowledge and tools they need to take an active part in their own health journey.
This approach often doesn’t work. We only need to look around to see that. People are overweight, still smoke, drink too much, don’t sleep enough… the list goes on.
Behavioural change is hard. That’s why Health Coaching offers a different approach.
PREKURE-trained Health Coaches are rigorously trained to meet the highest professional standards for health coaching within Australasia through the Health Coaches Association of Australia and New Zealand and internationally through the UK & International Health Coaching Association.
PREKURE is an approved CPD provider with the Royal Australian College of GPs for CPD. Led by a faculty of over 30 world-class clinicians, coaches, and academics, the university-level curriculum develops core coaching competencies essential for effective practice, complemented by up-to-date training in the very latest evidence-based science in lifestyle medicine.
Make more impact: Often advice comes from a place of talking at others, telling them what to do or solving their problems for them. Using your coaching skills you will learn new ways of listening, building trust and asking powerful questions to empower others to become motivated, confident, self-reliant problem solvers.
Transform your own life: Our learners are always amazed at the personal growth their new skills have in their personal lives, as they learn how to communicate more effectively and build better relationships. “It’s life-changing… the personal growth journey has been insane. It blows my mind that a course can have such a massive impact in the best of ways. Thank you so much! Recommending to everyone!” Rebekah.
Who is PREKURE?
PREKURE is a high-impact social organisation committed to revolutionising healthcare by focusing on prevention as the cure. Our vision is to help empower people to prevent, manage, and where possible, reverse chronic disease through training professional Health Coaches, Mental Health Coaches, and Nutrition Coaches and Master Coaches.
Available PREKURE Programmes
"I am a registered nurse working in diabetes primary health care. The health coaching certificate is helping me enormously with tools to better help my patients work towards behaviour change."
Alison, Diabetes Nurse
"Life changing fundamental skills, science backed and evidence based, up to date, tip-top coaches and experts that really want to make a difference - their enthusiasm is contagious."
Estelle, Pharmacist
"So good with the teachings and the opportunity to practice both being the coach and the client. Awesome way to learn, valuable to try new ways of asking questions in a supported environment."
Cynthea, Nurse
