Health and Wellness Coaching
Personal Health Consulting
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Michele's Story
A nurse and a coach who knows!
I know first hand how chronic disease can impact quality of life. Having lived with auto-immunity since childhood, I've had to learn what lifestyle modifications improve my health and wellness and which ones don't. It requires hard work, patience, and commitment, but you don't have to go through your journey alone! Watch my online interview to learn more about my journey.
Michele's Experience
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Board Certified Health and Well-being Coach - individual & group health and wellness coaching.
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Registered Nurse since 2007.
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Certified Senior Advisor® - Expert in Aging.
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Community education on lifestyle modification for healthy aging.
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Extensive experience with family caregiver guidance and support group facilitation.
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Personal journey with auto-immunity and symptom reversal.
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Extensive experience with professional presentations.
What is Personal Health Consulting?
What is Coaching?
What is Personal Health Consulting?
There are numerous individuals struggling to navigate the healthcare system. Personal Health Consulting appointments are virtual conversations that offer information, education, clarification, and guidance for the individual looking to improve their health literacy and self-advocacy skills, so they can be more engaged in their own health care.
With a background as a Registered Nurse in multiple areas of healthcare, Michele is uniquely qualified to offer these conversations. Michele also has experience as a resource connector and is an expert in aging, as a Certified Senior Advisor®. For more information about setting up these appointments, refer to the Services & Pricing page.​​
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Note: Personal Health Consulting are conversations only. Michele does not attend provider appointments or visit individuals in their homes. Personal Health Consulting does not offer, nor is it considered, medical care, medical diagnoses, medical advice, medical treatment, or health care plan development.
What's the difference between coaching, counseling and mentoring?
Coaching
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Coaching offers a safe, non-judgmental, environment of structure, accountability, inspiration, feedback, support, and partnership to help individuals identify and clarify priorities and direction for growth and self-improvement, not for those currently experiencing serious mental distress. Coaching sessions are collaborative, with a focus on positive psychology, and are designed to help the clients increase their potential through identification and application of strengths and self-learning for movement forward. It is future-focused, capturing what the client is already doing well and applying those identified strategies towards improvements in other areas of the client’s choosing.
Though coaching offers a safe place to go deeper into what the client is capable of achieving, it is not counseling/therapy, which deals with healing past-traumas, nor are diagnoses made by the coach. Neither is coaching the same as mentoring, where the mentor is the expert offering advice and behavior modeling. Coaches are specially trained to facilitate conversations that help evoke creative solutions for those ready to explore and make changes that will improve some element of their life. If an individual being coached needs a mentor or therapist, the coach will identify those needs and referrals will be made as appropriate.
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity, and leadership.”
Coaching’s Focus: Future-focused self-improvement and behavior change
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How Does Counseling/Therapy Differ from Coaching?
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Therapy offers a safe, non-judgmental, environment, but is geared more for those dealing with current mental health conditions, distress, or dysfunctional thinking patterns. It focuses on the impact that cognitive and psychological processes have on wellbeing, often exploring past trauma, with a focus on addressing and healing the illness or dysfunction, and the therapist can offer clinical diagnoses as well (using the DSM-5). In counseling, the therapist is considered the authority, offering advice, guidance, and dictating the direction of the sessions, so sessions are not co-created in the same way they are with coaching.
Counseling’s Focus: Past-focused for healing and correction of dysfunction
How Does Mentoring Differ From Coaching?
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Mentoring is strongly based on informal relationship, but the mentor is acting as the expert who models behavior, provides advice, and guides the individual who is learning from them. There is typically not a focus on measuring growth and the goal of mentoring is pre-determined based on what the mentor is offering.
Mentoring’s Focus: Informal guidance and modeling from someone more experienced
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