​​​​​What is Functional Medicine Health Coaching?
What Is Functional Medicine Health Coaching?
Making healthy lifestyle changes isn’t always easy—but you don’t have to do it alone. Sometimes there’s a gap between knowing what to do for your health and actually doing it. A health coach helps you bridge that gap. They guide, motivate, and encourage you so you can make changes that last.
Functional Medicine Health Coaches combine the principles of functional medicine with coaching skills to help you understand your doctor’s plan, create realistic goals, and stick with them.

What Does Our Health Coach Do?
A health coach works with you to improve your health and well-being through lifestyle changes.
They do not replace a doctor, diagnose conditions, or prescribe medications. Instead, they act as a supportive partner.

Your Health Coach will:
•    Listen to your goals and challenges
•    Help you spot barriers that may hold you back
•    Encourage you to use your strengths
•    Celebrate small wins along the way
•    Work with your doctor’s recommendations

Examples of Support our Health Coach Provides
•    Understanding and following your doctor’s care plan
•    Staying motivated while changing eating habits
•    Creating an exercise or movement routine that fits your life
•    Improving sleep and managing stress
•    Building mindfulness and emotional health
•    Offering accountability so you stick to your goals
•    Sharing tools for chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, or inflammatory illnesses.
 
Functional Doctor Partners with the Health Coach
•    Functional Doctor Approach: Our doctor practices functional medicine, which looks at the whole body as a system. The goal is to find the root causes of illness, not just manage or cover up the symptoms.
That means the functional medicine doctor you’ll be working with will help identify and treat what’s really driving your health issues, so you can work toward lasting wellness – perhaps in partnership with your Health Coach.
•    Health Coach Approach: The Health Coach partners with the doctor, to help you get more into the details about how to implement the doctor's recommendations. The Health Coach helps you set your own goals, facilitates a plan together with you, and celebrate progress. This builds confidence and keeps you moving forward.

Why Work with our Health Coach?
Health coaches help people succeed because they provide:
1.    Personal guidance – Plans fit your life, not someone else’s.
2.    Motivation and accountability – They cheer you on and help you stay committed.
3.    Support for lasting change – Focus on habits you can keep long-term.
4.    Whole-person care – Nutrition, sleep, stress, exercise, relationships, and mindset.
5.    Overcoming Impediments to Change – Resolving the inner conflicts that may be keeping you "stuck."

Is Health Coaching Effective?
Yes. Research shows coaching can help with:
•    Diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and other chronic conditions
•    Quitting smoking or improving diet
•    Reducing stress and sleeping better
•    Lowering blood pressure, cholesterol, and weight
•    Increasing overall quality of life
Even a few months with a coach can lead to measurable improvements. Coaching works in person, on the phone, or online.

A Personal Note
Welcome to Dr. Lily David Health Coaching. My name is Rev. Thomas Kasperek, and I am training to be a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach (FMCHC). My role is to support you in following your doctor’s recommendations and building healthier habits.

Together, we’ll:
•    Set clear, realistic goals
•    Track your progress
•    Celebrate your successes
•    Use proven techniques to help you grow stronger, healthier, and more confident in your daily life
In conclusion: As your Health Coach, I will guide, motivate, and partner with you so you can become the best version of you.