Health Coaching Certificate

Health Coaching integrates holistic health principles with coaching strategies to support individuals in achieving physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Complete in 6–12 Months

Guide Whole-Person Well-Being Through Integrative Practice

About the Health Coaching Certificate

The Health Coaching Certificate is a program offered through Meridian University's Center for Transformative Learning. Designed for professionals seeking to guide individuals toward healthier, more balanced lifestyles, the certificate draws on Meridian's graduate curriculum in health and wellbeing coaching to provide a comprehensive foundation in integrative health coaching practice.

As a certificate participant, you will take courses from the anchor and other parts of Meridian's graduate curriculum offered during the period of your enrollment. This means you will engage with the same rigorous, faculty-led coursework that graduate students experience, tailored to the certificate's focus on health coaching principles and practices.

What is Health Coaching?

Health Coaching is a professional practice that supports individuals in making sustainable changes to improve their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Drawing on integrative nutrition, mindfulness, embodiment, and whole-person developmental models, health coaching engages clients in collaborative conversations that foster self-awareness, motivation, and accountability. Health coaches work with the understanding that lasting change emerges when individuals connect with their own deeper values and aspirations for well-being.

Meridian's health and wellbeing coaching curriculum provides the theoretical and practical grounding for this certificate. Coursework emphasizes integrative nutrition, guidance and accountability, aesthetics of healing, and whole-person developmental models. Sample courses such as Foundations of Transformative Health Coaching; Principles and Practices in Guiding Accountability for Personal Health; Health and Disease: Nutritional Perspectives and Practices; Mindfulness, Embodiment, and Self-Regulation; Consciousness and Well-Being; Narrative Approaches to Healing and Well-Being; and Cultural Practices and Belief Systems of Illness, Suffering, and Healing offer certificate participants a broad and deep engagement with the integrative approaches that define effective health coaching practice.

The Growing Field of Health Coaching

The demand for qualified health coaches continues to grow as healthcare systems increasingly recognize the importance of lifestyle modification, preventive care, and patient-centered approaches. Health coaching is practiced in diverse settings including hospitals, wellness centers, corporate wellness programs, private practice, and community health organizations. Coaches who bring depth and a holistic perspective to their practice -- drawing on Meridian's emphasis on whole-person well-being -- are well-positioned to support clients across the continuum of health and wellness.

Certificate Details

16 credits of graduate-level coursework (4 courses at 4 credits each).
Complete in 6 to 12 months — take 8 credits per quarter (6 months) or 4 credits per quarter (12 months).
Courses are drawn from Meridian's graduate curriculum offered during the period of enrollment.
Content and collaboration via Meridian's social learning platform.

Tuition

$476 per credit

Total certificate cost: $7,616 (16 credits)

Credits earned through the certificate may be applied toward a Meridian University graduate degree program, as applicable.

Accreditation

The Health Coaching Certificate is part of Meridian University's California state approval and WSCUC (WASC) accreditation. WSCUC is a higher education accreditor recognized by the United States Department of Education. WSCUC is also the accreditor for Stanford University, UCLA, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Health Coaching Certificate is a 16-credit program offered by Meridian University that provides a comprehensive foundation in Health Coaching. The certificate draws on courses from Meridian's graduate curriculum, offering rigorous, faculty-led coursework aligned with the certificate's focus area.

The certificate can be completed in as few as 6 months (taking 8 credits per quarter) or up to 12 months (taking 4 credits per quarter). Each course is 4 credits, and the program requires a total of 16 credits.

Tuition for the Health Coaching Certificate is $476 per credit. The total cost for the 16-credit certificate is $7,616.

Yes. Credits earned in the Health Coaching Certificate may be applied toward a Meridian University graduate degree program, as applicable. This allows you to build on your certificate work if you choose to pursue further graduate study at Meridian.

Yes. The Health Coaching Certificate is part of Meridian University's California state approval and WSCUC (WASC) accreditation. WSCUC is a higher education accreditor recognized by the United States Department of Education, and is also the accreditor for Stanford University, UCLA, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Certificate participants take courses from Meridian's graduate curriculum that are offered during the period of their enrollment. The specific courses available each quarter are drawn from the anchor and other parts of the graduate curriculum, providing a rich and varied learning experience grounded in the certificate's focus area.

You will need an email account, a high-speed internet connection, and access to a computer, iOS or Android device.

For live video sessions, you will need a webcam and microphone for your device. Course video calls are conducted with participants video-enabled.

The certificate requires four courses. At Meridian, each course is 4 credits, so the 16-credit certificate is completed by taking four courses. You can take up to two courses per quarter (8 credits) to finish in 6 months, or one course per quarter (4 credits) to finish in 12 months.

The program support team will be available to assist from start to finish. Please send your questions, requests, or issues to admissions@meridianuniversity.edu

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