On this page, you can find everything you need to know about Needles and Spoons Health & Wellness, our values and how we lead in the community.
That’s why you deserve to be equipped with transparent information, not sneaky marketing, to make an empowered decision on joining a coaching program.
WHAT IS HEALTH COACHING?
Health coaching is an unregulated field, so it's more important than ever to understand what is and isn't within the scope of your coach
"Health and wellness coaches support their clients in achieving health goals and behavioral change based on their clients’ own goals and consistent with treatment plans as prescribed by individual clients’ professional health care providers."
- NBHWC.org
- Counseling, therapy and consulting
- Nutrition prescription
- Exercise prescription
- Laboratory evaluation and assessment
- Diagnosis of medical or mental health ailments
- Recommendation, promotion or sale of supplementation
- Other practices or activities in which the coach does not have the requisite training or credentials required by professional standards or by law (AKA anything your RD or CDE would do)
Outside The Scope Of Health Coaching:
DOES A MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD MAKE YOU MORE QUALIFIED?
At the end of the day, if those with the qualifications are not the ones teaching the materials, then no. Having a healthcare professional on your team does not qualify you to take on their credentials.
Jessica on our team is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator. We cannot teach what she teaches.
EXAMPLE
- Health Coaches (Certified by the Institute for Integrative Nutrition)
- ACE Certified Personal Training (with continuing education by Diabetes Motion Academy)
- Certified Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner
- Certified Diabetes Care & Education Specialist
- Registered Dietitian
- Diabetes Paraprofessional Level 1
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Our team is comprised of multiple levels of education including:
OUR COMMITMENT TO ACCESSIBILITY:
Accessibility Pricing Model:
Insulin is expensive. Endocrinologist appointments are expensive. Bulking up on low snacks at Costco is expensive. We get it! Yes, coaching is an investment - however it is our goal to make coaching as accessible as possible. We do this in a few ways.
Needles and Spoons Health & Wellness LLC is committed to breaking down wealth gaps & accessibility based on financial privilege, especially within the diabetes community.
It is our goal to make coaching affordable and accessible, so you don't have to choose between budgeting for insurance costs, insulin pricing, and seeking external support that can improve your overall diabetes care.
The Accessibility Pricing Model allows you to determine which scenarios apply to you and discount your enrollment based on where you stand. You can ask to see this at any time.
Digital Course No-Cost Upgrades:
When you enroll in any of our courses and decide to join Keeping it 100, we discount the price of the course you already invested in from your program enrollment!
Penalty-Free Installment Plans:
We will never ask for you to pay more just because you cannot pay in full.
Rather, we provide installment plans up to 9 months, no questions asked.
Continuation Discounts:
If you need continued support, we make it easy to continue your support.
PRICE TRANSPARENCY
We don’t believe that you should have to get onto a consultation call just to get the investment of our programs.
You can find the investment on each of our program pages.
THINGS WE WILL NOT DO:
Suggest you ‘get creative’ to pay for our coaching programs
Pressure you into making a decision on the spot
Imply that ‘coaching is cheaper than hospital bills’
We believe that coaching is a partnership.
OUR COACHING PHILOSOPHY:
The coaching dynamic is a collaborative one, in which we expect all of our members to show up for themselves each week and give 100% (whatever that looks like that week).
As a team who holds space in a safe and judgement-free container, we expect you as a member to always share your wins, concerns, confusion, frustration and everything in between. The more you share, the more we can help you navigate.
In return, your coaches will show up for you powerfully, push you out of your comfort zone in a gentle and safe way, and always put your best interest + preferences first.
We want you walking into our coaching relationship empowered in knowing exactly how we can best work together - because from our experience, coaching works best as a two-way street!
We promise to hold your vision at the forefront of every decision while co-navigating the next step.
We will challenge you, question patterns that are no longer serving you, and help you break through the roadblocks that have been keeping you stuck.
Always, this is done without judgement and with full hearts of support.
