A newsletter made just for coaches like you...a space designed to elevate your skills, strengthen your confidence, and keep you connected to the evidence-based heart of our profession. Whether you’re just beginning your coaching journey or advancing toward the NBHWC credential and beyond, this newsletter will deliver the tools, insights, and support you need to grow with purpose.
Each month, you’ll find practical skill-building tips, research-based guidance, cohort announcements, NBHWC-exam study support, and resources you can use immediately in your coaching sessions.
Our mission is simple: to help you master your craft, stay inspired, and feel empowered as a leader in the field of professional health and wellness coaching.
Let’s grow, learn, and lead...together.
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Skill Builder of the Month: Setting Boundaries
Coaching relationships work because they're warm, collaborative, and client-centered. Using the resource below, you can walk away with ready-to-use language for three of the most common boundary moments in coaching: closing a session on time, redirecting scope of practice pressure, and referring a client to clinical support as needed. These skills are what let you show up fully for every client, session after session.
Setting Boundaries with Clients: Click Here
Coaching Asset: 6 Ways to Curb Coach Burnout
- Cap your caseload: Set a hard ceiling on active clients based on your actual bandwidth, not what you think you should be able to handle — and revisit it seasonally rather than letting it creep up.
- Build recovery time into the schedule: Block buffer time between sessions and protect at least one full day a week with no client contact, so recovery isn't something you fit in only when you're already depleted or living in survival mode.
- Find support: Regular check-ins with another coach or a therapist to process hard sessions prevent the emotional weight of the work from accumulating silently.
- Track your own warning signs: Notice early burnout warning signs (dreading sessions, irritability with clients, skipping your own health habits, etc) and treat them as data, not a character flaw to push through. From there, create an action plan for how to reset.
- Separate your business hours from your identity: Set explicit boundaries around when you're reachable, and protect activities outside coaching that have nothing to do with being a coach.
- Under-promise, over-deliver: This allows you to give more when you have the capacity. For example, you have an awesome article on the exact topic your client is struggling with. The problem? You have no idea where it is. Instead of mentioning it in the session, send it as a happy surprise if/when you are able to find it. If you can't find it , or run out of time, there's no guilt for not following through.
Fall 2026 Coaching Cohort
Last chance to become certified in 2026!
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NBHWC Exam Study Hub
Testing in Fall of 2026? Check out our study opportunities here.
Click Here to express interest in participating in our peer led study cohort. Fall dates to be released soon.
Course Spotlight:
NEW!! Adolescent Health Coaching: (10 NBHWC CECs)
Health and wellness coaching with adolescents and young adults (ages 13–25) is a distinct and nuanced specialty. While the core competencies of the NBC-HWC credential form a strong foundation, working with younger populations requires expanded awareness of adolescent development, age-appropriate communication, unique ethical considerations, and the specific health challenges that disproportionately affect teens and young adults.
CEA-100282-2 (10 CECs) Click Here to enroll.
Building Your Coaching Business: Did you hear?
Expert Coach Center is collaborating with Coach Business Training to offer 5 individual courses, including options to bundle! All approved by the NBHWC for continuing education credits.
Courses include:
AI Powered Marketing (3 CECs; $87)
Building Collaborative Referral Networks (3 CECs; $87)
Time Management and Productivity for Solo Entrepreneurs (4 CECs; $97)
Launching your Business (11 CECs; $287)
Applied Business Launch 1:1 Coaching (6 CECs; $597)
Instructor: Karin Mayer, NBC-HWC, ICF ACC
Karin uniquely combines a health coaching certification with an MS in Computer Science and 30+ years in corporate America and management consulting. As both a practicing health coach who has built her own private client practice and a college instructor teaching Business and Computer Science, Karin understands exactly where coaches get stuck on marketing - and how AI tools can solve those specific problems without compromising professional integrity. She bridges the gap between cutting-edge technology and ethical coaching practice.
Check out our NBHWC-approved courses here.
Join Us:
For Higher Education Staff: We are launching our first-ever specialized cohort!! This 12-week cohort will run from August 19th-November 4th and is exclusively for those working in higher education (wellness directors, recreation staff, academic support, mental health support, peer educators, etc). Group rates available.
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Until next time, happy coaching!
~Holly Miller, Owner of Expert Coach Center
