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Certificate in Wellness Consulting™ Online

**Now accepting applications for class starting March 15, 2010. This program fills quickly and is limited to 30 students. Register early to ensure your place in class.  Contact Admissions toll free 800.487.8839 or email admissions@achs.edu to schedule your admissions interview.**

Career Goals:

  • Certified Wellness Coach
  • Wellness Consultant
  • Wellness Educator
  • Addition to current healthcare practice

This program:

  • Trains students for a successful career as a Certified Wellness Coach.

Program Description:

In the latest Entrepreneur Magazine, Wellness Coaching was named one of the hottest careers for 2009! Train today to become a Certified Wellness Coach with this comprehensive professional wellness certificate program!

Holistic medicine comprises a wide range of modalities. The Certificate in Wellness Consulting covers a diverse selection of holistic modalities enabling graduates to select the modalities that will best assist clients in achieving optimal health.

First, holistic nutrition is the foundation to any natural health lifestyle plan for optimal health. Rapid advances in science have enabled a much more detailed understanding of nutrition in recent years. The Center for Disease Control has expressed concern at the increasing levels of deficiencies in the USA. Obesity is at the highest levels in history. Chronic diseases are at an all time high and threaten to cripple our health care systems with the high cost of care. This program integrates core nutrition training as the foundation for wellness.

Students in this program also focus on pathophysiology and holistic protocols for clients experiencing acute and chronic problems. Graduates of this program are able to understand and explain the basic principles of pathophysiology as well as the mechanical and biochemical changes caused by a variety of diseases or imbalances.

Graduates of this program are also trained in the fundamental principles of natural therapeutics. Emphasis is placed on the science and philosophy of healing using a variety of techniques that are in harmony with nature and the individual client.

In addition the Certificate in Wellness Coaching also provides training in how to legally and successfully operate a consulting practice including how to create lifestyle plans to support optimal health. Graduates will be able to successfully operate a consultancy by implementing clinic management tools, including case taking, ethics, and informed consent.

Prerequisites:

An admissions interview and recommendation for admission from the Dean of Admissions.

Certificate in Wellness Consulting program requirements:

Course     Credits
Nat 308 Holistic Nutrition Online
3
Nat 302 Holistic Pathophysiology Online     
3
Nat 303 Holistic Pathology & Protocols Online3
Nat 306 Holistic Health Consulting & Business Skills Online, OR PSY 101 Introduction to Psychology Online3
Total Credits:
12

Study Time:

Each course within the Certificate is completed over 16 weeks. Minimum study time recommended for each course is 9 hours per week. Graduates are awarded the Certificate in Wellness Consulting - Certified Wellness Coach.

Materials:

Refer to each course description for the required materials (included in course fees).

Recommended Texts:

Visit the ACHS Apothecary Shoppe College Store online here for recommended texts and optional practical study kits.

Fees:

For information about tuition and fees, please refer to the Tuition and Fees page online here.

Click here to request information about the program and tuition
including details about our in-house customized financing and student loan programs.