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Health Navigator Coach Training

Equipping coaches to help clients think strategically about health information, options, and decisions: The Health Shift Way.

9 NBHWC-approved CE credits. Self-paced plus one live mentor session. $499.

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9 CE credits
NBHWC-approved, upon completion
9 hours
Instructional hours
Self-paced
8 hours online plus one 60-minute live, individual mentor coaching session
$499
Save $50 with the code EARLYBIRD by December 31, 2026

Training for health coaches who want a structured, ethical framework to support clients in exploring health information, clarifying what matters, and considering their own next steps.

Health has never been more confusing.

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Help clients pause, explore what matters, and think through their health information, options, and next steps.

Complete eight hours of self-paced online learning, followed by a one-hour live, individual mentor coaching session to explore your questions and apply what you've learned.

What is Health Navigator Coaching?

Health Navigator Coaching explores what shapes a person's health choices: The information they trust, the beliefs and experiences they bring, and what feels possible in their everyday life. When someone feels stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure of their next step, these influences offer a useful starting point for a coaching conversation.

Building on foundational health and wellness coaching skills, the training draws on Dr. Alice Burron's book Health Shift to strengthen health literacy and help coaches explore these influences with clients. Practical frameworks and tools support conversations about questions such as:

  • What makes this information feel trustworthy?
  • What am I assuming?
  • What matters most to me as I consider my options?
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Coaches help clients recognize patterns, explore possibilities, and identify their own next steps, including questions to bring to qualified health professionals. The client's values, circumstances, and choices guide the process.

Meet Hero Girl, your companion through the illustrations in the book Health Shift by Dr. Alice Burron. She brings the hero's journey to everyday health: Discovering what matters, seeing challenges differently, and choosing a next step.

Skills you'll learn

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  1. Use reflective questions to help clients explore health information and uncertainty.
  2. Apply ideas from behavior and decision science to coaching conversations.
  3. Help clients notice assumptions and influences on their health choices.
  4. Support clients in clarifying their values, priorities, and personal health philosophy.
  5. Help clients prepare questions for appropriately qualified professionals.
  6. Support clients in choosing their own health-related goals and next steps.

Course details

Total duration
9 instructional hours
Format
Blended. 8 hours of self-paced online learning plus one 60-minute live, individual mentor coaching session
Final exam
Pass the final exam with a score of 75% or higher. Retakes are available as needed.
Included
A digital copy of Health Shift: Your Personalized Guide to Making Strategic Health Decisions
Also included
Questions answered in the Health Navigator Coaching community of mentor coaches, and downloadable resources

Price

$499

2026 special Save $50 with the code EARLYBIRD when you register by December 31, 2026.

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Reading, suggested practice, and exam time are not included in instructional hours.

NBHWC Approved Course, Continuing Education seal.

Earn 9 NBHWC-approved CE credits upon completion.

Completion recognizes training in a proprietary coaching methodology; it does not confer a new NBHWC-issued or recognized professional credential or expand your scope of practice. Participants remain responsible for practicing within their education, credentials, applicable laws, and professional scope.

NBHWC course approval number CEA-110041-1

Recognition

Receive a digital badge and a certificate of completion from Strategic Action Health upon successfully completing the training. Share your accomplishment on LinkedIn and highlight the additional training you bring to your coaching practice.

Trained Coach, Health Navigator digital badge: a shield with a line-drawn trail map.
Sample certificate of completion from Strategic Action Health.

Meet your instructors

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Sabryna Liddle, MS, NBC-HWC

Instructor
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Sabryna Liddle 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.

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Dr. Alice Burron

Founder and coach mentor
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Dr. Alice Burron is a Doctor of Healthcare Education and Leadership, certified health and wellness coach, and creator of the Health Navigator Coaching framework. With over 20 years of experience in clinical care, population health strategy, and behavior change, she specializes in advancing health literacy and helping individuals make clear, confident health decisions.

She is a national speaker, author, and founder of Strategic Action Health.

What coaches are saying about the training

“Health Navigator Coaching Training helped me to understand that each client has a unique decision-making journey, and how to help create and honor their individual health philosophies. As a result I am helping them make better health decisions with greater clarity.”

Cindy D., Health Navigator Coach

“The Health Navigator Coaching Training has elevated my practice well beyond foundational wellness coaching. By learning to pause and create space for clients to explore how they make decisions, I've seen them gain incredible clarity and alignment in their health choices.”

Kaitlyn L., Health Navigator Coach

“What I value most about the Health Navigator approach is the skills it's given me to help clients better understand themselves and how they make health-related decisions. While they might come to coaching for help with a specific health issue, the skills they develop together support them throughout the rest of their lives.”

Esther A., Health Navigator Coach

“What I value most about the Health Navigator approach is having a solid framework to help people navigate their health: before, during, or after a health challenge. Health Navigator Coaching gives people the space to slow down, think through what they're experiencing, explore their options, and identify what matters most to them.”

Dr. Michelle L., Health Navigator Coach
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Get the brochure by email

A four-page training guide to read at your own pace:

  • The six parts of the course, with run times
  • The decision-support tools you will use with clients, from the Health Intelligence Assessment to the Healing Action Plan
  • How a Health Navigator Coach differs from a health coach
  • The behavioral science behind the approach

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Notice the difference

Health Navigator Coaching is different because it focuses on thinking, not the behavior. Health Navigator Coaches help people gain objectivity and strategic thinking skills so they are better equipped to know what the next best step is for them, by them.

When reading the testimonials, pay attention to what coaches and clients notice: Space to make sense of information, question assumptions and biases, gain a deeper understanding of how they want to navigate their health, and discover what matters based on their values.

Health Navigator Coach Training helps you bring that deeper exploration into your practice. Build on the coaching skills you already have with practical tools to help clients find their own clarity and direction.

“My health coach helped me to coalesce various disorganized thoughts and concerns and needed tasks into a clear action plan. They introduced me to helpful resources that I can use to more intentionally approach health concerns in the future. They also helped in being an objective voice to help me recognize some of my health strategy approaches and tendencies that I was not personally aware of.”

35 year-old man, coaching client

“Talking through everything and seeing how mental and physical health tie together and how everything relates. Talking about flexibility was a huge point as well.”

54 year-old man, coaching client
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Common questions

Who is the training for?

Training for health coaches who want a structured, ethical framework to support clients in exploring health information, clarifying what matters, and considering their own next steps.

How is it delivered?

Complete eight hours of self-paced online learning, followed by a one-hour live, individual mentor coaching session to explore your questions and apply what you've learned.

Is there an exam?

Pass the final exam with a score of 75% or higher. Retakes are available as needed.

Do I earn continuing education credits?

Earn 9 NBHWC-approved CE credits upon completion. Reading, suggested practice, and exam time are not included in instructional hours.

Does completing the training give me a new credential?

Completion recognizes training in a proprietary coaching methodology; it does not confer a new NBHWC-issued or recognized professional credential or expand your scope of practice. Participants remain responsible for practicing within their education, credentials, applicable laws, and professional scope.

What is included?
  • 8 hours of self-paced online learning
  • One 60-minute live, individual mentor coaching session
  • A digital copy of Health Shift: Your Personalized Guide to Making Strategic Health Decisions
  • Questions answered in the Health Navigator Coaching community of mentor coaches, and downloadable resources
  • A digital badge and a certificate of completion from Strategic Action Health
What does it cost?

$499. Save $50 with the code EARLYBIRD when you register by December 31, 2026.

A new skill set. A fresh perspective. A stronger coaching practice.

You already help clients make changes. Now, expand how you help them think through the health decisions behind those changes. Health is hard. Help your clients navigate it with clarity and a solid approach.

With the training, you can ask questions in the Health Navigator Coaching community of mentor coaches. You'll get downloadable resources and see the latest resources first, like additional free trainings. We support you every step of the way.

Make 2026 the year you add this skill to your practice! Register by December 31 and save $50 with the code EARLYBIRD.

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