Health Navigator Coaching Certificate

Help your clients make smarter health decisions with clarity, confidence, and self-trust.

If your clients feel overwhelmed by health information, stuck between conflicting advice, or unsure what to do next—this training gives you a structured way to guide them.

The Health Navigator Coaching Certificate equips you with a practical framework to support clients in making informed, values-aligned health decisions—without stepping outside your scope as a coach.


👥 This training is designed for…

  • NBC-HWCs and health coaches

  • Coaches working with clients navigating symptoms, diagnoses, or health overwhelm

  • Practitioners who want a clear, ethical decision-support framework

  • Coaches ready to deepen client outcomes without overstepping scope

Most coaching focuses on goals.

This training focuses on how clients make decisions in the first place.

You’ll learn how to help clients:

  • Navigate medical, lifestyle, and complementary options

  • Avoid common decision traps (over-analysis, bias, urgency, etc.)

  • Build health literacy and self-agency

  • Create realistic expectations based on their current health state

At its core, this work is about building confident, capable decision-makers.

🌿 What This Training Is (and Isn’t)

This is not about giving clients more information.

It’s about helping them:

  • Think more clearly

  • Process emotions that impact decisions

  • Choose aligned, realistic next steps

You’ll learn how to guide clients through uncertainty—without becoming the expert or advice-giver.

By the end of this training…

You will be able to:

  • Apply Health Navigator Coaching frameworks (CREECS, Health Spectrum Model, Health Intelligence Assessment) to support client decision-making

  • Guide clients in developing a personalized health philosophy aligned with their values, beliefs, and goals

  • Facilitate structured, client-led action planning that supports sustainable behavior change

  • Evaluate health information sources with clients and support appropriate referral decisions within scope of practice

  • Differentiate Health Navigator Coaching from general coaching and condition-management approaches

A Closer Look

What you’ll learn:

Health Spectrum Model (setting realistic expectations)

CREECS framework (Cost, Risk, Effectiveness, Effort, Commitment, Support)

Health Intelligence model (thinking, emotions, environment, and behavior)

How to guide clients through uncertainty and conflicting information

How to support ethical, client-centered decision-making

How to build a Healing Action Plan with tracking and adaptability

Course Details: 

Total Duration: 7 hours

Format: 6 hours asynchronous training + 1 hour live (synchronous) session

Assessment: 20-question written quiz (required for completion)

Applied Integration:
Practice with 1–3 individuals + mentor consultation

Continuing Education Credit

Participants who:

  • Complete all course modules

  • Pass the assessment

  • Participate in required components

will receive a Certificate of Completion with CE hours.

This course is designed to align with NBHWC continuing education requirements, including:

  • Measurable learning objectives

  • Instructor-led content

  • Verified assessment of learning

Meet Your Instructors

Sabryna Liddle, MS, NBC-HWC

Instructor

Sabryna Liddel is a board-certified health and wellness coach with a Master of Science in Health Promotion Management. She is one of the creators of the Health Navigator Coaching framework, designed to help coaches guide clients through complex health decisions with clarity, emotional awareness, and strategic thinking.

Her work focuses on advancing health literacy, supporting ethical decision-making, and helping clients become confident, self-directed participants in their health journey.

Founder & Coach Mentor

Dr. Alice Burron

Dr. Alice Burron is the founder of Strategic Action Health

Frequently Asked Questions

  • No, but this training is designed with NBHWC competencies in mind.

  • No. This is coaching-focused and supports ethical, client-centered decision-making.

  • Upon completion of all training components and passing the assessment.

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