Integrative Health and Wellness, M.S.

This program prepares students to become health and wellness professionals, with an emphasis in the area of health and wellness coaching. Students will gain the health promotion and behavior change knowledge and skills necessary to help clients explore their health, as well as the barriers and facilitators of their health behaviors. Students will learn to identify risk factors for chronic diseases and apply integrative, evidence-based approaches in health promotion, disease prevention, and lifestyle medicine. The program engages students in learning behavior change strategies to empower individuals from all walks of life to promote positive, multidimensional behavior change using psychosocial approaches such as mindfulness and self-compassion.

Learning Outcomes

1. Apply the health and wellness coaching structure and process used to empower a client’s behavior change and assist them in understanding their own health and wellness.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of behavior change theories and ability to apply behavior change strategies to promote client motivation and goal attainment.
3. Demonstrate ability to identify risk factors for chronic disease and apply current recommendations for modifying and improving well-being.
4. Evaluate lifestyle medicine strategies through the lens of epigenetics, microbiome, and mind-body wellness
5. Build self care plans to model their own health behavior skills
6. Evaluate legal and ethical considerations across a variety of health and wellness professions