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Wellness Law PodcastBlazing a Trail for Health Coaching Standards: A Conversation with Leigh-Ann Webster from NBHWCLeigh-Ann Webster served as the Executive Director for the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching from 2015 to 2024 where she led the effort to implement standards and a code of ethics for health and wellness coaches. In this episode, hear Leigh-Ann describe how she noticed a need for standards in coaching, why they are important, and what is next for wellness. To learn more about Leigh-Ann, connect with her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/leighannwebster/. Learn more about Wellness Law at www.wellnesslaw.com. 2025-04-0123 min
The Coaching Lab: Health, Wellness & Performance! (Brad Cooper, PhD)Understanding Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC Executive Director Leigh-Ann Webster) It wasn’t all that long ago – 2016 – when you and I could sit down over a cup of coffee, decided becoming a health & wellness coach sounded like a cool idea, and then walk out of the coffee shop calling ourselves exactly that. Or, organizations posing as “wellness coaching companies” could hire nice people, give them a script about eating kale and exercising 3x/week and market it as such.Those days have changed, as the National Board of Health & Wellness Coaching, or NBHWC now oversees a comprehensive certification process, including a national board exam proctored by the National Bo...2024-04-2255 min
Health Coach Talk: Conversations About Wellness Through Functional Medicine CoachingBREAKING NEWS: NBHWC applies for Category I CPT Code with AMAHow does "reimbursable value" drive the expansion of the health coaching industry?
Dr. Sandi, FMCA Founder and CEO, with Leigh-Ann Webster, the Executive Director of The National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC) give an inside view of the Category I CPT code with reimbursable value for the health and wellness coaching industry. The NBHWC recently applied for the Category I code and is set to present its case to the American Medical Association (AMA) CPT Panel Review.
As a reimbursable service, the health and wellness coaching industry is pr...2023-02-1722 min
The Coaching Lab: Health, Wellness & Performance! (Brad Cooper, PhD)Future of Health & Wellness Coaching: NBHWC Executive Director Leigh-Ann WebsterBack in 2016, you & I could be sitting down over coffee and you could say “Coop – we should be health & wellness coaches!” Then we could give each other a high five, walk out the door and start calling ourselves health & wellness coaches. Or – on the employee wellness side of the equation, a wellness company could hire nice people, place them in a call center with a fine-tuned script and then tell potential partners they offered health & wellness coaching. There were no standards of practice. No code of ethics. No national oversight board or certification process. Anyone could call themselves a coach – a...2022-12-1935 min