School of Health Sciences and Wellness
Health and Wellness Coaching Certificate
Graduate Certificate
Become a HEALTH AND WELLNESS COACH
As a health and wellness coach, you will support individuals on a transformative journey, achieving lasting changes, and enhanced well-being. You will help others explore motivation and values. Together, you will set goals, help them work through obstacles, and create action plans.
- Do you crave the opportunity to make meaningful connections?
- Are you inspired to help others create or sustain healthy behaviors?
- Are you seeking a mid-career change or wanting to enhance your effectiveness in your current field?
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Health and Wellness Coaching Certificate might be for you!
Why choose the Health and Wellness Coaching program at UW-Stevens Point?
Our program maintains your work-life balance and is designed with busy professionals in mind. You will engage in live online classes and mentoring with experienced health and wellness experts and build relationships with peers in an empowering cohort learning community.
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Ready to learn more about the Health and Wellness Coaching program at UW-Stevens Point? Join us for an informational session (30-45 minutes). We will discuss program details including schedule, class formats, course focus, and accreditation.
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Courses
Find a program that is flexible, affordable and fits your lifestyle.
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Tuition
Our NBHWC-accredited program provides a better return on your investment with high-caliber academics and degrees of distinction that help advance your career.
Tuition
Two Pathways for Your Journey
Earn a certificate following your preferred pathway. Both options equally prepare you to sit for the NBHWC exam and become a certified health and wellness coach.
80 CECs
Professional Continuing Education
No prerequisites or bachelor’s degree required
12 credits
Graduate Credit
Credits may transfer to master’s programs
“Health and Wellness Coaching is the change agent that shifts the culture and delivery of healthcare from dependency to empowerment.”
National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching
Flexible Options to Fit Your Schedule
The Health and Wellness Coaching Certificate program is unique because our focus is on you and your practical skill development. You will gain marketable skills, empowering you to help others create and sustain healthy behavior change.
100% Online
A blend of online virtual classroom and streaming videos. No travel required!
Professional Connections
Engage in classes, projects, events and mentoring with experienced health and wellness experts. Build relationships with
peers in an empowering cohort learning community.
In-Demand Skills
Learn the coaching skills required to transform your career.
Accelerated Learning
Complete your certificate in as few as five (5) months. Most classes are completed in eight (8) weeks.
Important Dates
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By the Numbers
Health and Wellness Coaching
92Percent
92% of our graduates pass the NBHWC certification exam on the first attempt. Nationally, 83% of all test-takers pass the NBHWC exam annually.
16 Weeks
Complete the program in as few as 16 weeks
12 or 80
Earn 12 Graduate Credits or 80 Continuing Education Credits
Join a Community of Wellness Trailblazers
Birthplace of Wellness
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is considered the birthplace of wellness, establishing the first college degree wellness program in the world. UW-Stevens Point became the first degree program in the U.S. to be accredited by the National Wellness Institute in 2010. The National Wellness Institute was founded at UW-Stevens Point and still maintains a close relationship with our academic program.
Meet your Faculty and Staff
You will work with national board-certified coaches as you observe and lead weekly practice coaching sessions. Our coaching experts have experience working industry, health care, veterans’ services, coaching organizations, and private practice.
Brian Krolczyk
- Assistant Professor – Health Sciences and Wellness
- Executive Health – MBA
- Director – UWSP-NWI Health and Wellness Coaching Certificate Program
Jennifer Hess
- Associate Director – Continuing Education and Outreach
- Program Manager – Health and Wellness Coaching
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Noah LaMaide
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Yvette Marí Robles
- Associate Lecturer – Health and Wellness Coaching
“I am so grateful for the knowledge, experience, and training I received from the university’s Health Coaching program and for the continued friendships and supports systems I have created that have stemmed from our cohort.”
Sarah Burby, MA, NBC-HWC, BCBA
NBHWC Accreditation
The UW-Stevens Point Health and Wellness Coaching Certificate is an Approved Health and Wellness Coach Training & Education Program by the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC). As a result, health and wellness coaches who have met NBHWC’s requirements and completed the UW-Stevens Point Health and Wellness Coaching Certificate Program will qualify to sit for the national exam to become a certified coach. NBHWC Exam Prep Course
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