Wellness Coaching and Women's Health
- Executive Education
This 14-week online program is designed to equip wellness and health professionals with the knowledge and strategies to integrate evidence-based women’s health insights with lifestyle and coaching practices that drive sustainable behavior change.
- Blended
Self-paced learning complemented by live sessions with faculty and weekly office hours conducted by program leaders.
$5,000
Flexible payment and team-based learning options are available.
Certificate
Upon completion of this program, you will receive a digital certificate from Harvard Medical School.
14 Weeks
Each week you will engage with recorded video lectures from faculty, attend webinars and office hours, complete quizzes and required activities, engage in moderated discussion groups with, and work on your final project, if required.
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Overview
The Wellness Coaching and Women’s Health program is a 14-week online program that integrates evidence-based insights into women’s health with structured lifestyle and coaching practices that support sustainable behavior change. By combining two expert-led programs—the Lifestyle and Wellness Coaching program and the Women’s Health and Wellness Program—this comprehensive learning experience offers practical approaches to prevention, behavior change, and women’s health across life stages.
As awareness grows around the impact of lifestyle and behavior on long-term well-being, this program provides a credible, research-based perspective. Through self-paced learning, applied reflection, and instruction from Harvard Medical School faculty and leading specialists, participants engage with evidence-based principles of lifestyle medicine and coaching practices. The program explores how daily habits influence women’s health, strengthening your ability to apply prevention-focused strategies and support sustainable health outcomes in personal and professional contexts.
Note: This program does not grant academic credit and does not provide certification as a professional coach. This non-degree program offers a certificate of completion to participants who meet the program requirements.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize women’s health changes in midlife and beyond.
- Explore the Foundational Lifestyle Pyramid — an exclusive framework developed by Dr. Beth Frates, a pioneer in lifestyle medicine and an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School — through a set of practical tools, exercises, and activities.
- Integrate evidence-based strategies to optimize women's hormonal and cardiovascular health in midlife.
- Incorporate the most recent research and the six pillars of lifestyle medicine into your coaching practice so that you can empower individuals compassionately and effectively to adopt and maintain healthy behaviors.
- Support women's sexual, cognitive, and mental well‑being with evidence‑based strategies.
- Acquire the tools to build a level of rapport that enables you to support clients even in challenging circumstances.
Who Should Participate
Individuals who are responsible for designing, delivering, or leading nutrition, lifestyle, and women’s health initiatives in clinical, wellness, or community settings.
About the Program
Guided by expert Harvard Medical School faculty and guest speakers, develop a deep understanding of women’s health, lifestyle medicine, and coaching practices, and learn to translate evidence-based insights into practical, prevention-focused strategies that support sustainable behavior change and long-term well-being.
Questions
Contact one of our program advisors at learner.success@emeritus.org.
This Harvard Medical School Executive Education program is taught by HMS faculty and is promoted by Emeritus. Emeritus is responsible for advertising, marketing, registration, and collecting payment.
This program does not grant academic credit or professional certifications from Harvard Medical School.
Curriculum
Through case studies, real-world examples, and applied learning projects, you will gain the skills needed to design women’s health and wellness interventions, apply evidence-based lifestyle medicine principles, and use coaching strategies that support sustainable behavior change. You will also work with practical tools—including the Lifestyle Coaching Journal—to connect daily habits, preventive care, and women’s midlife health to real-world coaching and care settings.
Applied learning projects are a core component of your readiness to drive impact in women’s health. In the Women’s Midlife Health Impact Project, you will identify an unmet need in women’s midlife health—such as menopause care gaps, cardiovascular risk, mental health, sexual health, or access to services—and develop a clear, prevention-focused solution. In parallel, the Lifestyle Coaching Journal will guide structured reflections across the program, helping you integrate concepts from each module into a personalized, evidence-based coaching playbook you can apply immediately in your personal, professional, or community context.
Teaching Team
Lydia E.W. Pace
MD, MPH
- Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Elizabeth Frates
MD, FACLM, DipABLM
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Director of Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Director of Wellness Programming, Stroke Institute for Research and Recovery, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
- President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Robert Brooks
PhD
- Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Stephanie S. Faubion
MD, MBA
- Chair, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida
- Penny and Bill George Director, Mayo Clinic’s Center for Women’s Health
- Medical Director, The Menopause Society
Tara Iyer, MD, DABOM, MSCP
Course Co-Director
- Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Director, Menopause and Midlife Clinic, Division of Women’s Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Associate Physician, Center for Weight Management and Wellness, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Co-Director of Harvard CME Course: Women’s Health & Menopause
Stelios Kiosses
MS, GMBPsS, BACP
- Course Director, Culinary Psychology, Oxford University
Emily S. Lau
MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Co-Director, Women’s Heart Health Program, Mass General Brigham
Margo Nathan
MD
- Assistant Professor, UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders Program
- Director, Women’s Neurology Education, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Director, Functional Neurology Division, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center