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Lifekind Health is building its first integrated health coaching program and is looking for a credentialed, experienced Certified Health Coach to contribute to its launch and ongoing delivery. This role sits at the intersection of direct patient care and internal coach training — spending the majority of time working with patients and contributing to the delivery of Lifekind's coaching program as it gets off the ground.

This is a hands-on role embedded within a transdisciplinary care team. You will work within established protocols, communicating and coordinating closely with physicians, behavioral health clinicians, and care coordinators — not alongside them at a distance. The right person is an excellent NBC-HWC first — someone who coaches well, documents carefully, and brings genuine commitment to the populations we serve.

Maintaining fidelity to the health coaching model is not a limitation — it is a mark of a skilled and ethical health and wellness coach. In a clinical setting where disciplines naturally overlap, a coach who holds their lane with confidence protects patients, earns the trust of the transdisciplinary team, and delivers better outcomes. We are looking for someone who understands this deeply.

Lifekind Health is a clinic network operating in California, with an administrative office in Arizona. Our tagline — Where science meets soul to rewrite your story — captures our commitment to evidence-based, dignity-centered care.

We serve patients living with chronic pain, trauma histories, and addiction — populations that standard healthcare models consistently underserve. Our clinical team includes physicians board-certified in pain medicine, addiction medicine, and anesthesiology. The health coaching program sits alongside that clinical expertise, providing behavior change support, accountability, and sustained engagement that licensed providers alone cannot deliver at scale.

Our coaching approach is grounded in neuroscience, motivational interviewing, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and trauma-informed methodology — designed specifically for the patients we see, not the populations that coaching textbooks were written for.

Patient Care:

• Carry an active patient caseload, delivering individual health coaching sessions focused on behavior change, goal-setting, and sustainable health improvement
• Administer validated self-report screening tools (PHQ-9, GAD-7, AUDIT-C, UCLA Loneliness Scale) and follow established referral protocols when positive screens indicate need for clinical evaluation
• Work within a trauma-informed, non-pathologizing framework — understanding patient resistance as protective response, not noncompliance
• Communicate and coordinate actively within the transdisciplinary care team — including licensed behavioral health, addiction medicine, and pain medicine providers — contributing to integrated care plans and participating in team coordination as part of daily practice, not as an afterthought
• Maintain accurate, timely session documentation consistent with clinical and payer requirements

Program Support & Implementation

• Implement and follow Lifekind Health's coaching intake process, session documentation standards, and care coordination workflows
• Contribute feedback on protocols, intake tools, and session structure as the program matures — your on-the-ground experience informs how we refine what we've built
• Support payer documentation as health coaching CPT codes (Category III) are activated across the practice

Coach Training Support

• Serve as a faculty contributor to Lifekind Health's internal coach training program, delivering instruction in assigned coaching competency areas aligned with National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC) standards
• Facilitate structured peer coaching practice sessions and provide feedback to coaches in training using NBHWC's established competency framework
• Conduct formal coaching skills assessments for coach candidates, evaluating performance against NBHWC's 18-domain rubric
• Provide individual coaching performance reviews to coach candidates at program midpoint
• Supervise coach candidates completing their required supervised coaching hours, offering structured observation and feedback
• Contribute input to curriculum as an NBC-HWC coach — not as a curriculum designer, but as someone whose daily patient experience keeps the training grounded in reality

Our Ideal Candidate will have the following qualifications:

• Active NBC-HWC credential (National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching) — non-negotiable for our training program's compliance with national credentialing standards
• Minimum 200 verified coaching hours (coaching log required at application)
• Master's degree in a health or wellness-related field (psychology, public health, counseling, social work, nursing, or related discipline)
• Experience working with trauma, addiction, chronic pain, or behavioral health populations — or demonstrated formal training in trauma-informed frameworks
• Demonstrated ability to teach or facilitate adult learners in a professional setting
• Proficiency with electronic health records (EHR), telehealth platforms, and clinical documentation workflows
• Training or certification in motivational interviewing (MI), Internal Family Systems (IFS), or other trauma-informed modalities preferred
• Bilingual English/Spanish — a meaningful asset given the demographics of our California patient population

SCOPE OF PRACTICE — FOR CLARITY

Health Coaches at Lifekind Health do not diagnose, treat, or provide therapy. They do not analyze past trauma or deliver clinical interventions. All clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment are delivered exclusively by licensed providers. Coaching focuses on present- and future-oriented growth, behavior change facilitation, accountability, and warm referral to licensed care. Trauma-informed coaching means understanding and working skillfully with protective responses — not treating them. This distinction is foundational to everything we teach and everything we do.

Fidelity to the coaching model is an active, ongoing professional commitment — not a passive boundary. A coach who practices with model fidelity brings precision to every session: they know what they are doing, why it is different from therapy, and how to hold that line clearly even when a patient’s needs pull toward clinical territory. This is what skilled, ethical coaching in complex populations looks like. It is what we expect, what we support, and what we celebrate.