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Master Health Coach Certification
Become the Coach You Are Destined to Be
Start Date: February 4, 2025
Gain confidence as a coach. Get live training practice. Qualify to become Board Certified.
Real-time
Get direct access to and instruction from Primal Health Coach Institute® Coaching Director Erin Power in live webinars for 12 weeks.
Interactive
Practice coaching with course peers and faculty to hone your craft and develop a keen sense of what works and what doesn't in a coaching setting.
Immersive
Go deeper than you've ever gone before on the key tenets, methodologies, and strategies of health coaching. Solidify your knowledge and skills as a behavior change specialist.
What You'll Receive
The Advanced Coaching Expert Certification program is a 12-week online course with live training delivered via twice-weekly interactive webinars, plus exercises, assignments, group projects, facilitated coaching practice, and a graded coaching evaluation. You’ll receive expert instruction and guidance to prepare you for the NBHWC exam.
What You'll Learn
The Advanced Coaching Expert Certification Course is an investment in your future. Round out your practical skills, deepen your coaching theory knowledge, and position yourself to become a board-certified health coach.
What Our Grads Say
The Advanced Coaching Expert Certification Course surrounded me with like minded individuals who want to help each other grow and succeed in helping others. Because of the course I now have more confidence in myself and my ability to be a great coach. And Course Instructor Erin Power is amazing! I love her energy. She's no nonsense in a compassionate, fun way. She put her heart, passion, and love into this course and it came shining through.
Jennifer Lehman
Certified Master Coach
The course has taught me so much. Most importantly, it has taught me to listen well, to be present and engaged, and ask open, thoughtful questions. It has taught me that the client knows their body the best, and that my role is to collaborate, support and, with their permission, educate and inform. The class was composed of a truly impressive array of experienced and thoughtful individuals, and instructor Erin Power exceeded all my expectations!
Pat Feller
Certified Master Coach
Engaging, organized, thoughtful, incredibly informative—course instructor Erin Power, and this class, changed the way I see the world. I'm much more confident in coaching people, and now understand the value in having the client be in the driver's seat to spur motivation and lasting change. The fellow students were an incredible group of people and I am very honored to be part of this cohort. I feel we will collaborate and refer clients to each other in years to come.
Hannah McChesney
Certified Master Coach
Frequently Asked Questions
Popular FAQs
This course is one component of our Master Coach Certification program. It can be taken a la carte, but is primarily designed as an add-on course for graduates of the Primal Health Coach Certification program. Graduates of both the Primal Health Coach Certification program and the Advanced Coaching Expert Certification have effectively completed our Master Coach Certification Program, which earns them Master Primal Health Coach status (MPHC) and qualifies them to sit for the NBHWC board exam.
This course has been specifically developed to meet the rigorous educational requirements laid out by the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaches (NBHWC). The NBHWC has created an alliance with the National Board of Medical Examiners to lead the advancement of health and wellness coaching by establishing professional standards and collaborative partnerships. Students who graduate from an NBHWC-approved school may qualify to sit for the exam to earn the National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) credential.
This course is typically offered twice per year. Advanced Coaching Expert courses are typically held starting in February and September each year.
Each student in an NBWHC-approved school is required to have a certain amount of direct interaction with course instructors. For this reason, we keep registration numbers to a manageable level and limit class size to 72 students.
If you have not completed the Primal Health Coach Certification program, once you've completed this course, you will earn Advanced Coaching Expert (ACE) recognition and status.
If you have completed the Primal Health Coach Certification program, once you've completed this course, you will earn Master Primal Health Coach (MPHC) recognition and status.
Registration Process, Payments, and Refund Policy
Yes. We offer a convenient payment plan of three easy payments. Click the "Pricing" tab above, or call us at 844-307-7662 (or 305-394-6960) if you have any questions.
No. We believe in this course and the value it represents and are certain you will find it worth every penny.
Our refund policy reflects the nature of this course. Because this course has limited capacity, if you claim a spot it means someone else is unable to enroll. And because it is a time-restricted course, we are unable to fill spots once this course begins. As such, here are our cancellation and refund policies. First, refunds will not be granted if the order was placed more than 6 months before the refund is requested. If your order was placed within 6 months and you request a refund, the following policies apply:
- We will issue a full refund if you cancel your enrollment on or before two weeks before the course begins.
- If you cancel between two weeks and one week before a course begins, we will issue a 75% refund.
- If you cancel within a week before the course begins, we will issue a 50% refund.
- If you cancel on or after the class start date no refund will be granted.
- Any tuition fees paid for a given course cohort cannot be transferred to a future course cohort after a course commences.
Tuition fees are non-transferable, and refunds will not be granted after a course commences.
After you submit the order form to complete your enrollment you will receive an email with next step instructions. You will then gain access to our online Advanced Coaching Expert Certification Course two weeks before the course begins. Within that online course you will find instructions on what to do next, including how to join the private Facebook group reserved for Advanced Coaching Expert students of this cohort. We will also send these instructions via email. We will then be in touch leading up to and on the course start date to kick things off. We will be with you every step of the way.
Coursework, Examinations, and Graduation
There are 12 chapters in the course, representing 12 weeks of school. Each week of the course has two corresponding chapters and two live teaching modules. So, chapters 1.1 and 1.2 correspond with week 1 of the course. Chapters 2.1 and 2.2 correspond with week 2, etc. You get access to the course two weeks before the class start date, so you can start on the reading without getting too far ahead. You'll be expected to join our mandatory live teaching modules twice per week, every week for 12 weeks. These twice-weekly sessions will specifically expand on the corresponding lessons for that week. The 12th and final week of the program gives you time to prepare and pass the final exam.
The online curriculum in this course is incredibly robust, totaling over 140,000 words. Combined with the live teaching modules and the practice coaching sessions you'll need to complete, you're looking at a commitment of anywhere from 8-10 hours per week.
Unlike our Primal Health Coach Certification, this is not a self-paced course. Due to the nature of this course, which includes a live teaching component, students are expected to keep pace with the rest of the class on a week-to-week basis and to complete the course and all exams before the class ends one week after the last webinar is delivered. You will be unenrolled from the course and your access to it will terminate two weeks after the last webinar to give way to the next cohort.
Yes. This is a timed course. See the previous question and answer.
That said, you will be given a digital book (PDF) comprised of the entire Advanced Coaching Expert course curriculum so you continue to reference the material after the course has completed and in preparation for the NBHWC exam.
Once we have a sense of who has enrolled in the course and which time zones are most represented, we will select a time, twice-weekly, that seems convenient for most students. Understanding that no time will be convenient for all, we have processes in place to ensure that those who are unavailable for the scheduled live teaching modules can attend and complete their sessions.
They are. This is one of the educational requirements laid out by the NBHWC and the reason we elected to create this secondary course for Primal Health Coach Institute students and grads who wish to have the option of sitting for the NBHWC credentialing exam.
Yes! Our Primal Health Coach Certification and Advanced Coaching Expert courses are designed to complement each other and can be taken concurrently. Or you can take the Advanced Coaching Expert course after you've completed the PHC Certification if you prefer. Our Advanced Coaching Expert course provides you with direct access to PHCI faculty and the kind of live education and coaching training we can only provide to a small, select group of students at any given time. The Advanced Coaching Expert Course is experiential learning at its best. It is not required to become a Primal Health Coach, but if you would like more access, more personalized feedback, and the opportunity to accumulate real coaching experience ahead of graduation, consider taking our Advanced Coaching Expert Course while you make your way through your PHC Certification.
We encourage all Advanced Coaching Expert students to complete the Primal Health Coach Certification course before completing the Advanced Coaching Expert course, even if you're taking them concurrently. However, in some special cases, depending on the timing of enrollment into both courses, you may find yourself completing the Advanced Coaching Expert Certification before our primary certification course. Our policy holds that you cannot earn Master Coach Primal Health Coach status until you've completed both courses, so in the event that you complete Advanced Coaching Expert first, your Master Coach certificate will be automatically issued but then manually revoked, and then re-issued again at the time you complete the Primal Health Coach Certification course.
NBC-HWC Certification
No. In order to acquire the NBC-HWC designation you must: complete an NBHWC-approved health coaching program. In the case of Primal Health Coach Institute, this includes both our Primal Health Coach Certification course and our Advanced Coaching Expert Certification course. You must also complete some additional qualification tasks as laid out by the NBHWC, including submission of a coaching log and education documentation; and apply for, pay for, write, and pass the NBCHWC credentialing exam, offered approximately twice a year.
The NBC-HWC is the first national board certification credential for the profession of health coaching. Receiving this designation means that you have met the educational requirements to be a board certified health and wellness coach. This designation is not the same as registration or licensure in a health care field; nor does it broaden your scope of practice as a health coach. As the health coaching industry continues to grow, we may see more employers and medical facilities looking to hire health coaches, and those organizations may insist on hiring only board-certified health coaches. It is not a requirement to practice as a health coach at this time.
Not quite. There are a few other tasks you'll need to complete in order to qualify to sit for the exam. The NBHWC has a detailed information page identifying everything you need to accomplish before you can take the exam.
While we have taken measures within this course to set you up for the best possible outcome in the NBCHWC exam, whether you pass it or not remains up to you. Our Primal Health Coach and Advanced Coaching Expert Certificiation courses when taken together satisfy the educational requirements for NBHWC approval, so you qualify to sit for the board exam, but it is not an exam prep course designed to help you ace the test.
No problem! At this time, there is no requirement for any health coach to sit for the credentialing exam; there is no requirement for a health coach to have the NBC-HWC credential in order to practice; nor do we require that graduates of our course go on to acquire the board certification credential. This course can be taken purely to deepen your coaching knowledge and skill.
The NBHWC, despite being a US-based national board certifying organization, does also certify international coaches. If you sit for and pass the NBCHWC exam, you can call yourself a board-certified health coach even if you live outside the US.
This course is designed to provide the kind of real-time education and support that can only be delivered to a small batch of students a few times each year. We will help you pass this course, become a Master Primal Health Coach, and be one step closer to becoming a NBHWC board-certified health coach!
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