What Can You Do With A Health Coach Certification?

Stacy Tager, FMCHC, NBC-HWC

Stacy Tager was featured in an interview with Shoutout LA, where she discussed her coaching business Root Wellness. Like many FMCA students, she did not come from a health care background. She was an executive training supervisor, fitness studio liaison, project manager and college admissions officer—and today, she is a National Board Certified Functional Medicine Health Coach.

Root Wellness is not just a health coaching practice, it’s Stacy’s passion. As she describes in her interview, “A wellness journey is not about achieving perfection, it’s about progress. The small little steps we take each day toward better health. I embrace the approach to health care that emphasizes positive behavior change to improve health and well-being by focusing on the essential core components of nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle. My clients and I brainstorm and work together using various modalities to develop a strategy to achieve specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time bound program goals.”

Leora Mofsowitz, FMCHC

Leora Mofsowitz has been in the Functional Medicine and nutraceutical world for 14 years. She shared her journey on how and why she became a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach with podcast host Lauren Kinghorn on Inspiring Mompreneurs.

After leaving her job in sales in South Africa, she found herself wondering how to accelerate her career. She shortly moved to London, and in addition to being a full-time mom, she now offers group coaching to clients to encourage behavioral change. Leora has modeled her business after the Group Coaching Model because of its low-cost option for clients wanting to work with a health coach. 

Leora is fueled by her passion to help others feel inspired and realize their fullest health potential. She currently works with entrepreneurs, business leaders and CEOs who are ready for change and to accomplish goals, while being the best versions of themselves. Like many successful business owners, Leora dealt with Imposter Syndrome, which is the internal experience of believing that you are not as competent as others perceive you to be. When doubts crept in, Leora focused on this: “The highlight is that the health coaching field is continuously evolving and developing, and I know that I am making a difference.” 

Suzy Glaskie, FMCHC

Suzy Glaskie, Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach and UK Health Coaches Association member, was recently featured in an article in Financial Times. She discussed how health coaching is relatively new to the UK, but is slowly becoming mainstream in companies and in National Health Service preventive medicine programs, which are designed to reduce doctor visits and hospital admissions.

Suzy works with her clients on nutrition, sleep, stress management, and exercise, in her company Peppermint Wellness. However, getting to where she is now was no small feat. Suzy worked in Public Relations for global food ingredients companies, but after nearly 4 years, her son was diagnosed with “bowel disorder.” Her life then turned into what she called a merry-go-round of high dosage, prescription laxatives—none of which helped her son get better. Year after year, she was told that his condition had absolutely nothing to do with food. Finally she decided to take matters into her own hands and try the alternative route. The results opened her eyes and changed her son’s life forever. Soon after, she became a health coach and began using her positive psychology skills to help clients focus on what is right with them in order to make sustained lifestyle changes, rather than focusing on what is wrong with them.