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Oct 23, 2026
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IHH 2295 - Integrative Health and Wellness Coaching (IHWC) Internship
Credits: 3
Catalog Description
This internship will be 120 hours of supervised health coaching practice in the field. The practicum offers students an opportunity to practice and integrate skills and knowledge gained in the program. The internship is an industry-based learning experience, consistent with the student’s personal and professional goals in a real-world setting.
Prerequisite(s) (must have a grade of C or better): Permission of course faculty
Additional fee to student: No
Learner Outcomes
- Explain how the internship enhanced personal and professional skills, including the foundational work of change theory, the coaching presence, the coach/client relationship, modeling, motivation, appropriate coaching tools, and goal setting.
- Demonstrate effective utilization and appropriate coaching tools through the health and wellness coaching process to assist clients in establishing their optimal health, vision, and values, exploring their readiness to make behavior changes, setting goals and action steps, and assessing progress over time.
- Determine how to effectively utilize coaching skills such as unconditional regard, other-focused listening, reflections, inquiry, and summary to assist clients in articulating their desired behavior changes, health vision, and goals.
- Demonstrate professional behaviors of ethics and attendance; suitable attire and demeanor; client follow-through; ability to accept constructive feedback and to adapt to the needs of the client requiring flexibility; and to discern one’s own level of competence and need for assistance.
- Explain to groups of lay and professional individuals the nature of health coaching as a profession, including its indications and possible benefits.
- Demonstrate the use of multiple tools and knowledge to support clients in creating individual integrative health and wellness plans and personal well-being goal setting.
- Evaluate the success of the internship project through evaluated coaching sessions.
- Assess and appropriately apply holistic principles and innate healing capacity in coaching relationships with clients.
- Develop a personal intake form and client agreement.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Professional development
- Coaching practices
- Health and Wellness coaching tools
- Client evaluation
- Coaching skills
- Professional demeanor and coaching presence
- Education in the coaching profession
- Using appropriate coaching techniques and tools
- Holistic principles and innate healing in coaching
- Scope of practice, licensure, regulation, and career planning
- Client Bill of Rights and appropriate forms
- Evaluated application of coaching skills
Credit for Prior Learning Options
No credit for prior learning option is available for this course.
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