What is the Certified Health and Wellness Coach?

The Certified Health and Wellness Coach is a globally recognised professional certification by the Global Leadership Institute (GLI), designed to equip professionals with advanced competencies in Occupational Health & Safety.

How long does this certification take?

The programme is 10 Weeks and can be completed at your own pace through our self-paced online option, or alongside live virtual sessions.

Is this certification globally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are internationally recognised and carry CPD credits, making them valuable for career advancement worldwide.

What level is this certification?

This is a Intermediate Level certification, suitable for professionals with relevant experience or background in the field.

You can enrol by emailing info@certifications.ac, contacting us via WhatsApp at +254 722 223 084, or filling the enrolment form below.

Certified Health and Wellness Coach (CHEWC)

Executive Summary

Certified Health and Wellness Coach

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Health and Wellness Coach (CHEWC) delivers a rigorous Intermediate-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing.

This 10 Weeks programme is structured around recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CHEWC holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification

Certified Health and Wellness Coach

Acronym

CHEWC

Who Should Enrol?

Counsellors and Therapists
Coaches and Wellbeing Practitioners
Social and Community Workers
Helping-Profession Practitioners

Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

All study materials and study guide
Access to GLI online learning portal
Online examination and assessment
Digital certificate and digital badge
Physical certificate (shipped to you)
CPD credits for professional bodies
GLI alumni network membership
Facilitator and tutor support
Resource downloads and reference library
Automatic enrolment confirmation

Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Career Advancement

Accelerate your career towards senior counselling, clinical and practice-leadership roles

Professional Recognition

Credential aligned with recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards

Leadership Capability

Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex counselling functions

Organisational Impact

Design and implement counselling systems that drive performance and measurable results

Compliance Readiness

Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to counselling

Global Employability

Qualify for counselling roles across training providers, universities, corporates and education institutions worldwide

Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

✦Wellness Assessment

✦Nutrition Behaviour

✦Stress and Health

✦Self-Monitoring

✦Behaviour Change Planning

✦Wellness Relapse Prevention

Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

The full programme, module by module.

Core CurriculumModules 1–20 · specific to Certified Health and Wellness Coach · module 20 is the capstone

1

Health and Wellness Coaching Foundations

Coaching health habits: activity, attention to eating and readiness · Coaching in health and lifestyle contexts: the boundary in practice · Building a coaching culture and an internal coaching function · Managing service delivery in health, education and technical settings

2

Wellness Assessment

Organisational maturity, assessment and improvement programmes · Security assessment, vulnerability management and remediation · Wellness programmes and promotion · Career, transition and life coaching

3

Health Behaviour Change

Habit and behaviour change: making it survive a bad week · Behaviour change: why intention is not enough · Habit change and behaviour design · Behaviour change and adoption of innovations

4

Lifestyle Risk Patterns

Coaching models and frameworks in practice · Coaching in hierarchy and across culture · Team and group coaching · Evidencing coaching impact

5

Nutrition Behaviour

Cultural context and coaching across difference · Building and running a coaching practice · Contracting: agreeing what the coaching is for · Performance coaching in a work context

6

Physical Activity Behaviour

Incident reporting and learning in health services · Community and primary health service management · Absence, capability and ill-health management · Confidentiality and health data

7

Sleep and Recovery

Resilience: recovery, adaptability and sustainable performance · Service recovery: complaints, resolution and what restores trust · Public health programmes: prevention and outreach · The manager as coach: developing people through the work

8

Stress and Health

Family life-cycle transitions · Coaching and reinforcement · Life transitions: adjustment, loss and meaning · Frontline coaching, quality monitoring and team culture

9

Emotional Wellness

Creating a coaching culture · Managing performance through coaching · Career conversations and growth · Coaching challenging situations

10

Health Motivation

Recognition and motivation in everyday management · Mentoring: sharing experience without taking over · Recognising distress and referring safely · Working with resistance, ambivalence and stuck clients

11

Self-Monitoring

Resilience for practitioners · Client feedback and satisfaction · Working with organisations on wellbeing · Stress, resilience and burnout prevention

12

Health Habit Formation

Managing growth, risk and resilience · Peer review and expert feedback · Active listening and empathy · Closed-loop feedback systems

13

Wellness Goal Setting

Goal setting and working toward a defined change · Planning, goal setting and operating rhythm · Consultative discovery and diagnostic questioning · Anxiety, mood and behaviour in youth

14

Behaviour Change Planning

Demand planning, forecasting and the distortion of signals · Supervision, reflective practice and practitioner sustainability · Working with ambivalence and motivation · Experiential and body-based practice in the session

15

Health Accountability

Motivation and self-directed learning · Fire behaviour and suppression strategy: reading the fire before fighting it · Workplace wellbeing strategy · Measuring wellbeing outcomes

16

Lifestyle Barriers

Objective setting: KPIs, OKRs and cascading goals · Continuous feedback and performance conversations · Consulting skills and contracting with the business · Performance management that changes behaviour

17

Wellness Relapse Prevention

Why practices lapse: obstacles, overcommitment and recovery · Community-based protection and prevention · Relapse prevention and maintenance · Relapse prevention planning

18

Progress Tracking

The transition from doing to managing · Buyer behaviour and the customer journey · Voice of the customer and feedback · Operational resilience

19

Wellness Outcome Evaluation

Evaluation design: attribution, comparison and honest claims · Supervision, wellbeing and sustaining protective practice · Discovery: diagnostic questioning and needs analysis · Contracting and managing security providers

20

Health and Wellness Coaching Practicum

Vendor, venue and supplier contracting for events · Collaborative and client-led planning · History and scope of counselling and coaching · Clinical supervision and reflective practice

Professional ElectivesModules 21–30 · common to all GLI certifications · broaden your professional range

21

Strategic Communication and Executive Presentation

Vision, purpose and translating direction into work · Audience-centred communication and message structure · Executive leadership: the board interface and enterprise stewardship · Persuasive structure: framing, evidence and the ask

22

Leadership and Team Effectiveness

Leadership identity, style and the limits of style · Leadership assessment, feedback and continuous self-review · What critical reasoning is and what it is not · Situational and adaptive leadership

23

Analytical Thinking and Evidence-Based Reasoning

Creativity and critical-thinking development · Analytical techniques and bias · Evidence-based improvement · Problem framing: symptoms, definition and scope

24

Professional Decision-Making

Managerial decision-making, bias and decision rights · Escalation and decision-making · Decision support: briefs, options and judgement under pressure · Decision frameworks: criteria, weighting and trade-offs

25

Negotiation, Influence and Stakeholder Management

Negotiation preparation: interests, options and the walk-away · Power, followership and organisational politics · Negotiation: preparation, interests and value creation · Concessions, anchoring and the shape of a bargain

26

Project and Execution Management

Proposals, bids and the business case · Project roles and the project manager · Developing the project business case · Planning, scheduling and personal workflow systems

27

Financial Literacy for Professionals

Financial reporting standards and their application · Financial management for the operating manager · Liquidity, funding and balance sheet management · Management accounting: costing, budgeting and decision support

28

Digital Skills, AI and Technology for Professionals

Digital workplace, collaboration and user support · Productivity, collaboration and workflow tools · Tools for interaction and collaboration · Working with data: quality, interpretation and honest presentation

29

Ethics, Governance and Professional Accountability

Ethical leadership: integrity, tolerated behaviour and moral courage · Ethics, conduct and speaking up · Business development risk, ethics and integrity · AI for managers: adoption, oversight and governance

30

Personal Effectiveness, Productivity and Career Growth

Emotional competence: awareness, regulation and expression · Self-awareness, strengths and the accuracy of self-image · Emotional intelligence and self-regulation · Priority: outcomes, importance and the urgency trap

Every module opens in the learning portal with its full lesson set, worked examples, further reading and video masterclasses. 30 modules · 150 lessons.

Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

Wellness Assessment — applied to your own work
Health Behaviour Change — applied to your own work
Lifestyle Risk Patterns — applied to your own work
Nutrition Behaviour — applied to your own work
Physical Activity Behaviour — applied to your own work
Sleep and Recovery — applied to your own work

Enrolment Process

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CHEWC certification?

The Certified Health and Wellness Coach is a professional certification awarded by the Global Leadership Institute. It covers 20 core modules specific to Health and Wellness Coach, culminating in the capstone “Health and Wellness Coaching Practicum”, plus 10 professional elective modules common to all GLI certifications. Candidates study through the online portal, submit the capstone project and sit a final examination; those who pass receive a verifiable certificate carrying a unique certificate ID.

Who should enrol in the CHEWC?

This certification is ideal for Counsellors and Therapists, Coaches and Wellbeing Practitioners, Social and Community Workers and Helping-Profession Practitioners, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CHEWC certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 10 Weeks and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CHEWC internationally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

What is the cost of the CHEWC certification?

The Certified Health and Wellness Coach is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 349 and Live Virtual at USD 549. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CHEWC certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CHEWC?

The Certified Health and Wellness Coach is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CHEWC?

The Certified Health and Wellness Coach carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CHEWC while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CHEWC?

Graduates progress towards senior counselling, clinical and practice-leadership roles. The CHEWC strengthens your expertise in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing and positions you for advancement across training providers, universities, corporates and education institutions.

Graduate Voices

What Our Alumni Say

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The curriculum was directly applicable to my daily work. I immediately applied what I learned and saw results within weeks of completing the programme.

Head of Learning

Private Sector

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GLI's certification is the most practical professional programme I have attended. The international frameworks gave me credibility with my employer and clients.

L&D Manager

NGO Sector

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I earned my CHEWC while working full-time. The self-paced format made it possible, and the quality of the content is genuinely world-class.

Lead Facilitator

Government

Certified Health and Wellness Coach

Certified Health and Wellness Coach

Certification at a Glance

Who Should Enrol?

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Core Competencies You Will Develop

Programme Modules

What You Will Achieve

How to Get Certified

Common Questions

What Our Alumni Say

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