The Missing Link in Healthcare: The Power of Health Coaching

About this episode

This episode discusses the transformative role of health coaching in healthcare and its impact on patient lifestyle changes.

Welcome to another episode of Flip Your Script, a vodcast by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, hosted by ACLM President Dr. Padmaja Patel. In each episode, we explore five key takeaways on how lifestyle medicine is helping clinicians and leaders reimagine the future of healthcare. This episode, “The Missing Link in Healthcare: The Power of Health Coaching,” features leaders in the health and wellness coaching space who are helping transform how patients make and sustain meaningful lifestyle changes. Through evidence-based behavior change strategies, health coaches bridge the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it—empowering patients to achieve lasting improvements in their health and well-being. The conversation explores the growing role of health and wellness coaches within healthcare teams, the science behind behavior change, and how coaching supports patients in building healthier habits around nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress management, and other lifestyle factors. The guests discuss why coaching is becoming an increasingly valuable component of lifestyle medicine, how coaches collaborate with clinicians, and the measurable impact coaching…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Padmaja Patel

Topics covered

• health coaching
• lifestyle medicine
• behavior change
• patient engagement
• wellness programs

Keywords

• health coaching
• lifestyle medicine
• behavior change
• patient engagement
• chronic disease prevention

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: American College of Lifestyle Medicine

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