Thrive Wellness Coaching provides personal coaching services to aid clients in developing their own custom formula for health and wellness.
Everyone deserves and can achieve a high degree of wellness. But enacting lasting change is challenging, and it helps to have a partner along for the ride. Wellness Coaching helps clients adjust their lifestyle to thrive.
FREE COACHING SESSION
Everyone deserves and can achieve a high degree of wellness. But enacting lasting change is challenging, and it helps to have a partner along for the ride. Wellness Coaching helps clients adjust their lifestyle to thrive.
FREE COACHING SESSION
Katherine Engels, NBC-HWC
National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach
Massachusetts General Hospital Beacon Hill Primary Care
Owner of Thrive Wellness Coaching
Vinyasa Yoga Teacher
Katie Engels is the Health & Wellness Coach at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Beacon Hill Primary Care Practice, the founder of Thrive Wellness Coaching, and she teaches Vinyasa yoga locally. Since 2018, Katie has focused on building a scalable and financially self-sustaining wellness coaching program embedded within primary care at MGH. As a member of MGH’s Division of Internal Medicine Healthy Lifestyle Program, her work also involves establishing the practice of healthy lifestyle as the standard of care for the prevention and treatment of chronic disease.
Katie is a national board-certified health and wellness coach (NBC-HWC), holding coaching certifications through Wellcoaches and the Center for Coaching Certification. She has been working with coaching clients since she founded Thrive Wellness Coaching in 2014. Katie is also certified in whole food plant-based nutrition by the T. Colin Campbell Foundation at Cornell University. She studied Vinyasa yoga at Radiant Yoga Boston, and has been teaching yoga since 2016. Her classes weave the physical and philosophical aspects of yoga together with music to cultivate a warm and welcoming atmosphere for both beginner and experienced students. Katie is also certified in lifestyle medicine by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and in culinary medicine by The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine. Prior to starting her wellness coaching business, Katie spent ten years in marketing and project management in the financial services industry. She holds a B.A. in English from Boston College.
Katie’s personal wellness formula involves helping others pursue lasting lifestyle change, spending time with family and friends, reading, cooking, being active outdoors and daily yoga practice. To learn more about her work and coaching style, visit the Thrive Wellness Coaching Blog.
National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach
Massachusetts General Hospital Beacon Hill Primary Care
Owner of Thrive Wellness Coaching
Vinyasa Yoga Teacher
Katie Engels is the Health & Wellness Coach at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Beacon Hill Primary Care Practice, the founder of Thrive Wellness Coaching, and she teaches Vinyasa yoga locally. Since 2018, Katie has focused on building a scalable and financially self-sustaining wellness coaching program embedded within primary care at MGH. As a member of MGH’s Division of Internal Medicine Healthy Lifestyle Program, her work also involves establishing the practice of healthy lifestyle as the standard of care for the prevention and treatment of chronic disease.
Katie is a national board-certified health and wellness coach (NBC-HWC), holding coaching certifications through Wellcoaches and the Center for Coaching Certification. She has been working with coaching clients since she founded Thrive Wellness Coaching in 2014. Katie is also certified in whole food plant-based nutrition by the T. Colin Campbell Foundation at Cornell University. She studied Vinyasa yoga at Radiant Yoga Boston, and has been teaching yoga since 2016. Her classes weave the physical and philosophical aspects of yoga together with music to cultivate a warm and welcoming atmosphere for both beginner and experienced students. Katie is also certified in lifestyle medicine by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and in culinary medicine by The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine. Prior to starting her wellness coaching business, Katie spent ten years in marketing and project management in the financial services industry. She holds a B.A. in English from Boston College.
Katie’s personal wellness formula involves helping others pursue lasting lifestyle change, spending time with family and friends, reading, cooking, being active outdoors and daily yoga practice. To learn more about her work and coaching style, visit the Thrive Wellness Coaching Blog.
What is Coaching?
Coaching is distinct from other service professions.
According to the International Coaching Federation, “professional coaching focuses on setting goals, creating outcomes and managing personal change. Sometimes it’s helpful to understand coaching by distinguishing it from other personal or organizational support professions.
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Coaching is distinct from other service professions.
According to the International Coaching Federation, “professional coaching focuses on setting goals, creating outcomes and managing personal change. Sometimes it’s helpful to understand coaching by distinguishing it from other personal or organizational support professions.
- Therapy: Therapy deals with healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within an individual or in relationships. The focus is often on resolving difficulties arising from the past that hamper an individual's emotional functioning in the present, improving overall psychological functioning, and dealing with the present in more emotionally healthy ways. Coaching, on the other hand, supports personal and professional growth based on self-initiated change in pursuit of specific actionable outcomes. These outcomes are linked to personal or professional success. Coaching is future focused. While positive feelings/emotions may be a natural outcome of coaching, the primary focus is on creating actionable strategies for achieving specific goals in one's work or personal life. The emphasis in a coaching relationship is on action, accountability and follow through.
- Consulting: Individuals or organizations retain consultants for their expertise. While consulting approaches vary widely, the assumption is the consultant will diagnose problems and prescribe and, sometimes, implement solutions. With coaching, the assumption is that individuals or teams are capable of generating their own solutions, with the coach supplying supportive, discovery-based approaches and frameworks.
- Mentoring: A mentor is an expert who provides wisdom and guidance based on his or her own experience. Mentoring may include advising, counseling and coaching. The coaching process does not include advising or counseling, and focuses instead on individuals or groups setting and reaching their own objectives.
- Training: Training programs are based on objectives set out by the trainer or instructor. Though objectives are clarified in the coaching process, they are set by the individual or team being coached, with guidance provided by the coach. Training also assumes a linear learning path that coincides with an established curriculum. Coaching is less linear without a set curriculum.
- Athletic Development: Though sports metaphors are often used, professional coaching is different from sports coaching. The athletic coach is often seen as an expert who guides and directs the behavior of individuals or teams based on his or her greater experience and knowledge. Professional coaches possess these qualities, but their experience and knowledge of the individual or team determines the direction. Additionally, professional coaching, unlike athletic development, does not focus on behaviors that are being executed poorly or incorrectly. Instead, the focus is on identifying opportunity for development based on individual strengths and capabilities.”
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