If you're are passionate about health and looking to develop your capacity to help others attain their maximum level of health and wellness, our team  will provide training for certification as an Integrative Health Coach and help you establish a coaching career in approximately 6-8 months.

LEARN MORE, PROSPER MORE, IMPACT MORE AND HEAL MORE.

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CCHM Integrative Health Coach Professional certification program is based on many years of clinical experience and research.
How frequently do you have friends or colleagues who want some specific guidance in managing difficult health issues, or stress management but do not know where to go?
How valuable would you find a concise and comprehensive course that will give you tools and training that you can use right now?
Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control* reveal that one out of every three adults in North America uses Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) to treat health concerns and conditions, and this number continues to rise. Now more than ever, it is essential for health care providers to have knowledge and experience to help clients navigate through the myriad options available to them.
Barnes PM, Bloom B, Nahin RL. Complementary and alternative medicine use among adults and children: United States, 2007. National Health Statistics Reports; No. 12. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2008.
​This Integrative Health coach program is a thorough and practical course that offers the core foundational knowledge and understanding of evidence-based integrative health practices that have been demonstrated to enhance client’s outcomes. You will work with experts from CCHM mentorship pool to learn a body of knowledge about, nutritional, lifestyle management, disease prevention, stress reduction techniques, anti-aging techniques, functional assessment techniques, lunch and learn programs and evidence based techniques to optimize your client’s health.
Delivery format:  Tele-seminars, webinars, and onsite workshops.
The techniques will help your client’s health challenges such as: pain, insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome, cancer survivorship (supportive care), weight management and rejuvenation. Learn new strategies to increase client’s engagement in improving health through making lifestyle changes and stress management.
 Courses Description

Prerequisite course for non-medical practitioner:
Basic review of anatomy, physiology, and Biochemistry
​Review of Anatomy & Physiology
1. Quick Medical Terminology has long been relied on by students and medical professionals looking to build or update their medical vocabulary. This new fifth edition provides the tools and information needed to understand the simple logic behind hundreds of seemingly incomprehensible words, along with fresh exercises and current examples.
Features new review exercises and self-tests, more than 250 new terms, medical measurements, and up-to-date examples
Provides the tools necessary for building and sustaining a large working repertoire of medical terms
The reference of choice for health practitioners and others who need to expand, improve, or refresh their medical vocabularies
Text book: Quick Medical Terminology
2. A self-Testing Guide, 5th Edition by Shirley Soltez Steiner, Natalie Pate Capps ISBN: 978-0-470-88619-9
 Biochemistry text: Biochemistry for Dummies
This friendly guide presents an overview of the material covered in a typical college-level biochemistry course and makes biochemistry basics easy to understand. It explains all the topics and practical applications in plain English. From cell ultra-structure and carbohydrates to amino acids, proteins, and supra-molecular structure, you will identify biochemical structures and reactions, send your grades soaring, and start looking forward to your next class, instead of dreading it. Discover how to:

• Master biochemistry basics
• Work through biochemistry problems
• Prepare for standardized tests
• Grasp amino acid and protein structures
• Nail down enzyme terminology
• Load up on carbohydrate knowledge
• Crack the nucleic acid code
• Learn to love lipids — but not too much
• Master the ABCs of vitamins
• Apply biochemistry in everyday life

Text; Biochemistry for Dummies: by John T. Moore and Richard H. Langley
Health Coaching IHC1A
Pillars of Wellness
Overview of the history leading up to ill health and disease management. In our present society, there is a transition from crisis-oriented health care to preventive medicine and wellness care. This course will look at the impact that our personal habits, environment, society, lifestyles, foods, stress, past beliefs, and negative attitudes have on our health as individuals and as a society. The student will learn how these factors affect our health. Students will learn how to identify them and change them. 

Health Coaching IHC 1B
“Oh, My Health!”:
Our bodies are incredibly complex creations with many specific needs – and many of those needs are not met by the Standard American Diet. Learn about the 7 Essential Nutrients that you need to be healthy, the proven science behind their use, and how you can get these nutrients through eating right and natural supplements.

Nutrition IHC2
Orthomolecular Nutrition and comprehensive overview of nutrition that combines insights of the East with the science of the West. The ecology, biochemistry, physiology, and pharmacology of nutrition. Food and consciousness. What each vitamin and mineral is, what it does in the body and symptoms of deficiency. How internal and external factors affect the body's absorption of these nutrients. Suggestions for food sources and optimal supplementation.

Nutrition Part 2-Digestive Health IHC3
How the digestive system works. Psychological factors, food combining, digestive enzymes, lactic bacteria, fiber.  How various enzyme work, therapy programs for over 150 health challenges.

Nutrition Part 3- Detoxification IHC4
Over the last two centuries industrialization has radically altered this planet and in so doing has also reduced our body’s ability to deal with toxic exposure. Human bodies are not designed to manage the magnitude of industrial toxicity. In this course, we will explore how toxicity is a contributing factor to many of our modern health challenges and how to support organs by detoxification.

​Fitness and Weight Management IHC5A
In this course, various exercises for various health challenges will be discussed. The student will learn how the body can make better use of nutrients when exercise is incorporated into the lifestyle. Exercises for the whole body are studied, including the slant board, rebounding and for effective lymph drainage, toning, supply blood to the brain and relieve the organs from gravitational stress

Lifestyle Management IHC5B
In this course, you will learn how to combine the nine psychological processes for change and a six-stage system of change that will create a formula for helping your clients overcome undesirable behaviors. Help your clients clarify their values and goals then utilize their strengths to create more fulfilling lives. How to conduct a “discovery session” with your client and that sets the tone for your coaching alliance and the entire coaching process.

Mastering Moods & Emotions IHC6
Miss managed stress is the major most contributing factor to today’s health challenges. In this lesson, you will learn how to use a stress assessment scale and help your clients eliminate the things that sap their natural energy and how to replace those things with things that will attract abundance, joy and great opportunities into their lives with this newfound energy
 Nutritional Understanding Medical reports IHC7
This course the student with excellent resources on both conventional and alternative scopes of laboratory chemistries. The course content focuses on the assessment of nutritional status and trend towards health challenges through interpretation of standard lab test
when presented by the client.
 
Marketing & Jurisprudence IHC8
In this course, you will learn how to market yourself as an Integrative Health Coach with the boundaries of the Law. Knowing that the focus of health coaching to optimize health and not “Not” disease care. You will learn how to provide a valuable service to the masses seeking relief from suffering through guidance and education. This will enable you to secure clients quicker and achieve the success level you seek in your coaching practice.

​Electives-IHC 10
Select any two electives

• Reverse the Curse of Metabolic Syndrome
• Effective Cleansing Detox
• Bioenergetics(Ngui Matrix) Dr. Stanley Ngui
• Measuring tools

Elective Self Help
​Dr. Jay Vanden Heuvel

• Home remedies (self-help A-subject value 50%)
• Liver and health (Self-help B-subject value 50%)
• Let the Liver “B” Healthy (Self-help C-subject value 50%)

 Final each student will write a journey and participate in 10 hours of humanitarian outreach in their local community.
Qualification: (Upon graduation a Health coaching diploma is awarded (B.Sc. equivalency.), and eligibility for registration for the designation of Integrative Health coach (IHC) with the Board of Integrative Medicine
Course Fee: $600.00 per subject
Elective courses (offered by affiliate educators)