Boost Outcomes, Cut Burnout: How Health Coaching Can Transform Your Medical Practice Featuring Sandra Scheinbaum, EP 138

Thriving Practice with Tracy Cherpeski

In this episode, we dive into the world of health coaching with Sandra Sheinbaum, founder of the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy. We explore how health coaching can transform patient care and revolutionize healthcare practices.

Key Points:

1. Sandra's journey from education to psychology to founding a health coaching academy
2. The role of health coaches in improving patient compliance and outcomes
3. How health coaching can break down overwhelming lifestyle changes into manageable steps
4. The impact of health coaching on reducing provider burnout and stress
5. Health coaching as a communication bridge between patients and healthcare practices
6. The business case for integrating health coaching into medical practices
7. Health coaching as a potential career path for healthcare professionals

Notable Quotes:

"When you feel heard, healing is already started." - Sandra Sheinbaum

"Health coaches are the specialists in helping you to change." - Sandra Sheinbaum

"We know that when a practice has a health coach, the stress load on the doctor plummets." - Sandra Sheinbaum

Resources Mentioned:

- Functional Medicine Coaching Academy: functionalmedicinecoaching.org

- Free resources: fmcafreebook.com

Sandra’s Bio:

With over eight years of experience as the Founder and CEO of the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy (FMCA), Sandra is dedicated to training people all over the world to become Functional Medicine health coaches and empowering them to support patients and practitioners in combating chronic lifestyle-related diseases and reducing healthcare costs. As a board-certified Functional Medicine practitioner, Sandra has a deep understanding of the science and art of personalized, holistic, and root-cause-based healthcare.

As an educator and licensed clinical psychologist for over 40 years, she has also developed an innovative model that blends Functional Medicine principles with positive psychology, mind-body medicine, and the psychology of eating. Sandra is the author of several books on health coaching, Functional Medicine, and anxiety management, as well as a frequent podcast guest and contributor to Forbes. Through FMCA, a collaboration with The Institute for Functional Medicine and a fully-approved program by the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching, she is proud to be a recognized leader in the field of health coaching education and to serve a global population of aspiring and practicing coaches.

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