Health Coaching

A seasoned coach

 

Leila Finn

Health coaching is about empowerment. It’s a life skill. While working with me, I want my clients to learn the coaching skills I have so they have them to use for the next change they want to make or challenge they need to manage.

Leila Finn, M.A. and NBC-HWC, began her career in health and wellness coaching at the Decatur Family YMCA. Her own experience with diabetes led her to volunteer at her local YMCA, where she worked for 7 1/2 years as a Wellness Coach. She has been a Lifestyle Coach in the Diabetes Prevention Program and worked as a Wellness Ambassador for the Georgia Division of Aging where, as a Master Trainer in the Stanford University Diabetes Self Management Program and the Stanford Chronic Disease Self Management Program, she led trainings and workshops in North Georgia. She has experience coaching groups and individuals in a wide variety of settings and delivery platforms.

Leila is an Integrative Health Coach, certified by Duke Integrative Medicine, and a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. She is also an ACE certified Health Coach and Personal Trainer. At Emory Continuing education she developed curriculum and was lead instructor for Emory's health coach certificate program. She's taught health coaching at Georgetown Continuing Education and mentored at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine health coach program. She is a contributing author in "The Professional's Guide to Health and Wellness Coaching" from the American Council on Exercise (ACE), Chapter 2 "Core Components of Coaching". Leila also teaches coaching at ACE.

Leila has a Master's degree in cultural anthropology and her interests include cultural shifts in diet and food. Her personal and professional goal is to help people become empowered in their own health and self care, to better envision and realize their own health goals.

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