WHAT IS A HEALTH ADVOCATE-EDUCATOR™ ?
A Health Advocate-Educator™ is a licensed or certified holistic, integrative health professional who has the expertise, education, knowledge, skills, and caring heart whose mission is to partner with you, become actively involved in your healthcare, and provide guidance at any stage of your illness-wellness continuum.
A Health Advocate-Educator's ™ educational background, license, and experience sets them apart from a traditional health or lifestyle coach. Health Advocate-Educators™ offer a uniquely different level and quality of services for their clients.
Your Health Advocate-Educator™ :
• Co-partners with you as you adopt whole-health thinking
• Obtains your health and lifestyle history
• Reviews laboratory and pathology reports over the last three-five years to identify your specific trends while educating you about these trends
• Correlates your symptoms with the laboratory/pathology reports and provides education about how the health issue came about, how you can correct it and how you can prevent it from re-occurring
• Identifies your body-mind, spiritual, environmental and lifestyle issues from an integrative* healthcare perspective while educating you from this perspective
• Discusses and helps you implement conventional, allopathic methods of treatment and holistic/alternative methods (conventional + holistic/alternative = integrative*)
• Co-creates a written health plan that outlines ways to make necessary changes in your diet, stress level, attitude, environment and other lifestyle factors as they are incorporated into specific methods of treatment for your focused health concern
• Provides you with easy-to-use approaches and health-supportive tools used to promote a self-correcting and self-healing framework
• Provides counseling
• Motivates and offers supportive guidance for you while initiating and maintaining changes that equate to "good health habits"
• Empowers you to be your own best physician through education and active participation in your health
• Exemplifies a caring, common-sense approach to your individual health needs and lifestyle
• Promotes self-responsible health, including knowledge and use of your healthcare spending and health record keeping
• Functions as a liaison or mediator who works with you and your physician (or other health professional) who is directing your healthcare
• Supports a wellness-based healthcare system where you, the consumer, are educated, informed and pro-active in your approach to individual health and healthcare
• Provides health-related educational programs for your community, workplace, or other places that influence your lifestyle and health
YOU AND YOUR HEALTH ADVOCATE-EDUCATOR™
You are in charge of your own health and healthcare. You practice whole health thinking, self-responsible health, and health-promoting lifestyle habits as you enjoy and maximize healthy longevity. A Health Advocate-Educator™ is a health professional who mentors, supports and guides you through your illness-wellness continuum.
You, the client, and your health professional, Health Advocate-Educator™ , become partners in healthcare. Your Health Advocate-Educator™ recognizes that you are not the "patient" (sick person) but an informed consumer or client (healthy person) who has the right and desire to be his or her own doctor.
You and your Health Advocate-Educator™ share similar aims: to evaluate your health issues, to educate you so you understand why these health imbalances occur, and implement ways to correct these imbalances before they reach the point of chronic disease. You and your Health Advocate-Educator™ co-create a health plan specifically designed for you, with the aim of correcting health imbalances, preventing illness and promoting wellness.
To better understand how a Health Advocate-Educator ™ partners with people to promote health and wellness, you are invited to review the TESTIMONIALS section of this website.
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