Professional Certificate in Health and Wellness Coaching

Internationally recognised and approved training program where no prior health qualifications required to enrol. Australia’s leading Health and Wellness Coaching course approved with the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaches (NBHWC) and Health Coaches Australia and New Zealand Association (HCANZA). Interest free payment plans and flexible start dates. Online course intake groups available EVERY MONTH – enrol and get access today!

For decades, society’s state of “busy-ness” with work, home and personal commitments have led to poor lifestyle behaviour. We are now seeing chronic health conditions rise across populations. The idea that modern medicine’s “magic bullet” will fix our poor health choices has been debunked and health experts now widely prescribe the need for individuals to take active steps towards disease prevention.

The Professional Certificate in Health and Wellness Coaching will equip you to become a professionally as a formally accredited Health and Wellness Coach, and work with clients to help them achieve better health and wellness by creating the successful behaviour that has escaped many people.

Learn more about this exciting course from WCA Founder and CEO, Fiona Cosgrove

Enrolments now open for the May and June Intake Groups.
Enrol and start anytime right through to the end of the month and receive immediate access to the first unit.

Our accredited Health and Wellness Coaching Professional Certificate offer you the opportunity to be a powerful health mentor using the latest evidence based health coaching psychology practices that work. Help people to outgrow their unhealthy habits, organisational challenges or all-or-nothing thinking with their health, so they can finally make sustainable health change that LASTS.

Exploring Studies in Health and Wellness Coaching

Thursday 7th May, 6.00pm (AEST Syd/Mel local time))

Thinking of enrolling in one of our Health and Wellness Coaching courses but still have lots of questions about which course is right for you? Do you opt for a full qualification, certificate course or just a short skills course? Join us for our upcoming discovery webinar where WCA Coach Trainer and HCANZA Board Member, Melanie White will present a 45 minute session on ‘Exploring Studies in Health and Wellness Coaching”. In this session Melanie will give you a complete 360 degree view of:

the status of our industry,
our Scope of Practice (and what you will be insured to provide under this scope),
Australian and international accrediting bodies who will recognise your certification,
how and where our graduates are successfully using Health and Wellness Coaching,
how you can start your studying for the level of training you are after right now, and
how you can become a formally Accredited Health and Wellness Coach with NBHWC and HCANZA.

This session is 100% free to attend with zero sales tactics. So join us and learn more about our new and emerging health practice and see if it is right for you!

Study online and Become Certified in 6 to 8 months

This course provides you with the required certification to become a formally accredited Health and Wellness Coach and gain professional insurance to work as a Health and Wellness Coach in Australia and worldwide.

eligible for professional accreditation and membership with the Health Coaches Australia and New Zealand Association (fees apply).
an approved program with the National Board Certification (NBC-HWC USA) giving you a pathway into the highest level of certification in our field globally.
an evidence- based, practical qualification backed by latest research and international trends.
100% online course with a blended learning approach with both self study units and ‘live’ facilitation led practical based webinars.
highly participatory course with more than 40 ‘live’ trainer led hours and one on one mentoring and client case study feedback sessions.

Delivered over 6 to 8 months, online and highly interactive course (12 months to complete)

No prior health qualification required

The latest evidence-based learning in health behaviour change

Course approved with HCANZA and NBHWC giving you access to formal accreditation

Learn more about this exciting course from WCA Managing Director, Fiona Cosgrove

Your learning journey...

The Professional Certificate in Health and Wellness Coaching blends the science of behaviour change and holistic health with the art of human connection, so you can step confidently into a career (or side-career) that matters.

Whether you’re looking to enhance your professional toolkit or deepen your personal wellbeing journey, this training delivers practical skills, proven frameworks and heartfelt purpose. You’ll learn how to motivate, inspire and support real change – not just talk about it. And you’ll gain the structure and credibility to do it with confidence.

You’ll Walk Away Ready To:

Inspire genuine, lasting change moving beyond simply giving advice to empowering transformation.
Use your coaching skills to enhance both your own wellbeing while supporting others on their journey.
Confidently guide meaningful wellness change for clients, colleagues, or yourself.
Bring evidence-based health and wellness coaching models to life in everyday practice.
Hold motivational, insight-driven conversations that spark action and create results that last.
Become professionally recognised and accredited with NBHWC, HCANZA or IICT.

What You’ll Learn:

Discover proven coaching models that blend psychology, behaviour change and the power of human connection.
Unlock the secrets of motivation and accountability to help people thrive and reach their wellbeing goals.
Build confident, practical coaching skills that create real momentum and lasting results.
Embrace a holistic approach to wellbeing and learn how to apply it in every area of life and work.
Explore the essentials of nutrition, movement and mental wellbeing and weave them naturally into your health and wellness coaching conversations.

What's inside the program

Providing a relevant blend of theoretical and practical coach training studies (including Coaching Psychology, Behaviour Change and Positive Psychology) together with health and lifestyle studies covering nutrition and weight management, physical activity and fitness, and holistic approaches to managing stress and increasing energy.

As coaching is a hands on, practical skill that you will be learning, these subjects include more than 40 hours of live training delivered by our team and include one on one mentoring and client case study feedback sessions so you feel confident that you are learning this skillset for success.

What sets our course apart is our ‘live’ trainer facilitated business training module for those looking to setup a coaching business. Combining practical skills, tools and resources to help you to set up, brand, promote and run your coaching business in a way that leverages off your coaching and interpersonal skills.

Foundations of Health and Wellness Coaching

The Art and Science of Mental Wellbeing

Movement and Exercise for Living Well

Nutrition Essentials and Gut Health to Fuel Wellness

Advanced Skills and Practice in Health and Wellness Coaching (16 weeks – practical unit)

How it is Delivered

100% Online

Blended learning including self paced study units and a 16 week practical training unit including live webinars, practical coaching sessions, self guided learning, and practical assessment tasks.

Interactive & Engaging

Engaging lesson content from specialist trainers and contributors including video lessons, engaging experiential activities and live webinar sessions.

Study Duration

Units are delivered over an 8 month timeframe and you have 12 months to complete all the units in full (extension also available).

Start Immediately or Plan ahead

With new intake groups available each month, you can enrol and commence straight away or plan ahead and enrol in the month you wish to start.

The science of coaching and health behaviour change has been a key area of research for many years in the fields of psychology, coaching and healthcare. In recent years the practice of coaching people to better health behaviours and outcomes has become recognised as a potential catalyst for successful adoption of lifestyle habits.

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Want to study in-person?
Join the next Intensive Residential
June 7-11, 2026
Gold Coast

Join us in June for our next Intensive Residential training program, to be held on the Gold Coast. Over 4.5 days we will be taking you through the coaching competency training units that within the Professional Certificate course, where you’ll immerse yourself in a hands-on, practical training program while fast tracking this section of your studies by 3 to 4 months.

Train alongside like-minded people and share in your experience with this small group training event. Our senior trainers will take you through a program of highly participatory lectures, rich with hands-on practical learning, coaching demonstrations, case studies, role play and real-time mentoring and feedback.

The Professional Certificate is comprised of 5 individual units across 2 competency groups + an optional business elective

Health and Wellness Coaching Skills and Practice (2 units)

Health Studies for Holistic Wellbeing
(3 units)

Passion to Profit – Business Coaching Program
(optional elective)

Professional Recognition and Insurance

Health Coaches Australia and New Zealand Association

This qualification is an approved training program course with our industry association: Health Coaches Australia and New Zealand Association (HCANZA) enabling you to apply for professional recognition and full membership. HCANZA is the leading industry association in our region that supports Health and Wellness Coaches, Primary Care Physicians and Allied Health professionals to connect, communicate and aspire to deliver on our collective vision of Co-Creating Universal Health and Wellness.

Pathway to National Board Certification with NBHWC (U.S)

The Professional Certificate in Health and Wellness Coaching is an approved training program with the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaches (NBHWC) giving students the eligibility to apply and sit the National Board Certification exam and become a “Board Certified” Health and Wellness Coach – the highest qualification internationally for the Health and Wellness Coaching field.

For more information visit the NBHWC website https://nbhwc.org/

International Institute for Complementary Therapists

Wellness Coaching Australia is an approved training provider with the International Institute for Complementary Therapists (IICT), where once you have received your full certification you can submit your application to gain membership and formal registration as a Wellness Coach. IICT is an independent membership body for the wellness industry whose course endorsement will allow you to apply for professional insurance under the service category of Wellness Coaching.

Flexible Enrolment Options

We offer 2 enrolment options giving you the flexibility to choose the best study pathway based on your available study time and managing your budget. Both will enable you to ultimately gain your HCANZA and NBHWC Professional Certificate in Health and Wellness Coaching – its just up to you how you wish to manage your studies!

Option 1 - Enrol in the full course (5 core units)

By choosing to enroll in all 5 core units including the 16 week Advanced Skills and Practice unit, you will be on a study timetable that will have you formally certified in 6 to 8 months.

Find out more and view upcoming intakes available

All course units

Option 2 - Two part enrolment process

Choose to split your enrolment into 2 parts where you choose to enrol in the 4 self-study foundational units initially (Part A) and delay your enrolment in the final 16 week Advanced Skills and Practice unit (Part B) to a later date when you ready to embark on this final 'live', practical based training unit.

Find out more and enrol in Part A today

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Full Course Enrolment- Upcoming Intakes & Fees

Course Fee

Total Course Fee is $3960 – we offer 2 payment options for your enrolment:

(1) Interest free monthly payment plan available at $495/month – total 8 instalments (transaction fees apply) OR

(2) Pay in full upfront

Please ensure you have read the enrolment terms and conditions prior to enrolling.

Study Timetable

Standard timing (avg 10 hours week)

Standard 8 month study timetable for core units. Average 8-10 hours of study a week. Add on 3 months if you add on the elective business unit.

Fast Track timing (avg 16 hours week)

Fast track on a 5-6 month study timetable for core units. Average 18 hours of study a week. Add on 3 months if you add on the elective business unit.

Upcoming Intakes (Full Course Enrolment)

Name	Intake Status	Course End Date (at the latest)
May 2026 intake (PROCERT)	Enrolment Open	30/04/2027	Enrol
June 2026 intake (PROCERT)	Enrolment Open	31/05/2027	Enrol
July 2026 intake (PROCERT)	Enrolment Open	30/06/2027	Enrol

Industry Accredited - Continuing Education Points/Credits

Individual learning elements within our course are accredited as continuing education for professional development with some of the leading health, fitness and wellness bodies in Australia and overseas. Refer to the course guide for more details

Recognition of Prior Learning

If you have completed individual Wellness Coaching Australia training courses, in the last 2 years, that are units within this program, these can be credit transferred to the Professional Certificate upon application.

If you have prior qualifications in health, fitness or wellness field, contact us to discuss unit exemption availability based on your prior certificates.

If you have run your own small business and feel you have the business acumen already to setup your new coaching business with ease, then you do not need to add on the Passion to Profit business elective to your enrolment. For those looking to setup their own coaching business, we highly reccomend you add this onto your enrolment. Contact us for more information

Testimonials

When I first looked at enrolling into a course on coaching and wellness, I was drawn to the Professional Certificate course and Wellness Coaching Australia because above all, it offered a robust and evidence-based approach to coaching on health and wellbeing. The training content has credible backing in research, and it’s easy to gather from the study materials and the facilitation, that the program is well thought out and meticulously designed. There is coaching practice and feedback in abundance, and the course offers a safe space to trial, error, learn and grow. The frameworks and tools I learnt around coaching psychology, understanding stress and passion to profit are contents that I regularly reference as I set up my own coaching business, The Life Balance Movement, and I can’t wait to see where it goes!

Debanjali Sengupta

Even though I currently live in the UK at present so many of the courses that I looked at were American and they just did not meet my requirements or feel aligned with my values. Wellness Coaching Australia had a great course full of content and I found such a helpful team, right from the moment I made my initial enquiry. I loved so many aspects of the course, as the modules were really comprehensive and for me I found a great balance of information along with diverse ways of working - from small practical group sessions to individual project work. The additional modules were excellent and I personally got the most from the module on 'Understanding stress' - this was such a comprehensive section and so essential for meeting clients where they are. Stress is such a huge factor for most of my clients and so this was a great insight. I loved all of the support I got from all of the team and felt that I always had someone to help me either find information or get an answer. If you’re looking for a health coaching course, Wellness Coaching Australia would be my top recommendation for a good all round qualification along with helpful supportive staff and knowledgeable experienced tutors/trainers.

Helen Selby

“I recently completed studies with Wellness Coaching Australia, finishing with a Professional Certificate in Health and Wellness Coaching. As an allied health professional who works in the chronic disease management and prevention space, an understanding of human behaviour and coaching principles is imperative when working with clients. I completed my Level 1 & 2 wellness coaching course to enhance my skills and breadth of knowledge when working with such clients. Level 3 Professional Studies built upon this learning and provided an opportunity for practical applications through regular coaching circles. This course has opened my lens both personally and professionally, and has shifted my approach to practice. I am currently implementing coaching techniques within my work as an allied health professional and also plan to expand this further within my own business of wellness coaching. The course was fantastic and extremely valuable. Highly recommend”

Stephanie Aalders