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INTEGRATIVE WELLNESS ACADEMY: Your Path to Professional Certification
Integrative Wellness Academy (IWA) stands as the premier online institution for professional certifications in coaching and wellness modalities. Our programs are uniquely founded on holistic models, holism, diverse integrative education, positive psychology and practical skill sets designed for real-world application. As a US-based online school, IWA offers both US and international students professional and master-level certification programs in high-demand holistic health and wellbeing fields, including integrative life coaching, somatic healing, integrative health coaching, hypnotherapy, integrative holistic life planning, culinary longevity and nutrition, and other cutting-edge wellness modalities including complimentary and alternative mental health specialites. Our globally recognized certification courses welcome students from the US and around the world.
Each certification program is meticulously developed to integrate foundational principles with advanced tools and techniques, ensuring immediate practical application. IWA’s integrative approach provides comprehensive holistic wellness models, science backed proven techniques from diverse healing modalities, essential foundations for building a successful business, skills for excellence in practice, mentorship and industry-leading certification. Empowering holistically centered integrative coaches and practitioners, IWA equips you to support clients in effectively transforming their lives in positive, sustainable, and profoundly meaningful ways. Explore a deeply enriching education that offers both profound personal development and significant career expansion! As a holistically focused certified coach or practitioner trained by IWA you will help your clients transform their lives in powerful and positive ways.
IWA PROGRAMS: Your Educational Pathways
Discover the perfect program to launch or advance your career in the field of holistic wellness.
We help you transform your career and develop a successful coaching or practitioner practice.
IWA offers holistically focused, specialized integrative coaching and practitioner certification programs that combine traditional coaching and methodologies with a diverse range of healing modalities and essential business tools. This comprehensive approach empowers you to build a thriving coaching or practitioner practice. Integrative coaches and practitioners trained by IWA help clients create effective, positive, and lasting change in their lives. This is truly next-level in holsitic wellness modalities and life coaching. Find out more about our different specialized certification programs HERE.
Our Unique Integrative Approach
IWA Integrative Coaching programs uniquely combine the fundamentals of coaching, our proprietary wellness model, and a diverse range of healing modalities to help clients create effective positive change and achieve holistic wellbeing. Our courses offer the core competencies and foundations of your field and a diverse set of integrative tools that are far more extensive than traditional training programs offer.
- Integrative and holistic tools and techniques to support clients in achieving balance and wellbeing.
- Video session examples and practical exercises to build your confidence and competence.
- Ready-to-use forms and exercises for your clients, removing guesswork from your practice.
- Our unique integrative approach creates a deeply transformative holistic framework for client success.
- A holistic wellness life model for balancing the whole person: mind, body, and spirit as well as all of the major life areas.
- Proprietary Inside-Out and Outside-In coaching models for comprehensive client support that addresses both root causes and outside behavior.
Comprehensive Business Development Training
IWA programs teach you the essential basics of running a successful coaching business or private practice, providing everything you need to confidently launch and grow your own practice.
- Immediately launch your own practice with our practical guidance.
- Learn step-by-step how to establish and grow your own thriving practice.
- Master the basics of running a coaching business or private practice, including legal considerations, effective marketing strategies, professional standards of practice, and more.
- Choose your own specialty or coaching niche to stand out in the market.
- Learn how to integrate coaching and practitioner services within existing organizations.
- Understand ethical guidelines and how to secure liability insurance to protect both your clients and your business.
- Gain the unwavering support and confidence needed to begin effectively supporting clients in transforming their lives.
Flexible Online Learning Experience
IWA offers a fully virtual learning environment for all of our certification programs. Our online courses are self-directed, accessible from anywhere in the world through your web browser, and designed to fit your busy life while also offering support and mentorship.
- Online courses are self-paced, allowing up to a 6-month timeframe for completion for all professional level trainings. For those that continue on to the master level trainings after completing the professional level, all master level certifications offer unlimited time to complete.
- Learn from the comfort of your own home and around your own schedule.
- Dedicated student support via scheduled phone calls with instructors, your student cohort group or email for both critical technical issues and course questions.
- Access to expert instructors and a vibrant online community for support or study partners.
- 1-on-1 calls with instructors for support and mentorship
- Connect with other students in your dedicated student cohort group for collaborative learning.
Robust & Research-Driven Curriculum
IWA offers research-driven certification programs taught by leading experts in the field. Upon successful completion of your course, you will receive a professional certification, enabling you to legally practice worldwide. We constantly update our programs to stay current with new tools, techniques, research, and industry trends and standards of excellence, ensuring you receive the most relevant knowledge and skills.
- Intensive online coaching and practitioner courses with up to 6 months to complete.
- 75+ hours of comprehensive training (exact hours vary per course – see individual course details).
- Assignments specifically designed for experience-based, practical learning.
- Curriculum based on 30+ years of research and clinical best practices.
- Tuition includes a professionally printed certification upon successful completion of the course.
Professional Opportunities
As a graduate you may offer in-person or online services anywhere in the world. Many of our graduates work in private practice, corporate wellness, group practice or in specialized niches such as complementary and alternative medicine or as a complementary and alternative mental health professional, mindfulness and meditation practitioner, life coaches, somatic coach, somatic coaching or therapeutic somatic practitioner focusing on trauma or chronic stress, culinary wellness specialists, longevity coaches, executive coach or mindset coach – when it comes to how you niche your business after certification, the choice is yours. Depending on the educational pathway, you select your specialty. As a holistic life coach or practitioner you will be able to support clients with addressing:
EXPLORE OUR DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL PATHWAYS
IWA offers numerous certification courses, life coaching programs and specialized practitioner programs within the holistic wellness and healing fields. Explore the different program options to see what is the best fit for you and your future career!
Innovate
We constantly update our programs to include innovative new tools, research backed tools and cutting-edge techniques, ensuring you stay ahead with the latest developments and needs within the wellbeing, health and wellness, and coaching industry.
Transform
IWA programs are research-driven and integrate coaching fundamentals with a diverse range of wellness modalities to address the whole person and create lasting, profound transformation for both you and your clients.
Inspire
We are passionate about inspiring people to live their best life. We train coaches and practitioners to inspire clients to do the same. We are also deeply committed to giving back through local and global service initiatives.
Ready to help others transform their lives?
Success Stories
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Driven by Results
Integrative Wellness Academy (IWA) is the only holistic and integrative school for professional certifications in coaching and wellness modalities that are founded on holistic models, diverse integrative education, and practical skill sets. IWA is an academy built on over 30 years of rigorous research and clinical best practices. Our programs are research-driven, utilizing effective tools and methods that our leading industry expert instructors have successfully employed in their own practices. We integrate tools and information from over 20 different healing modalities within our certification courses to elevate your coaching or practitioner practice to the next level. We have meticulously crafted each program to provide everything you need to be successful and help your clients achieve profound life transformations.
The beauty of developing our own curriculum is our ability to continuously adapt to what’s effective, the latest research, and proven methodologies. We’ve conducted clinical studies and are able to identify the most impactful tools and techniques in clinical practice. This allows us to make immediate changes and updates, ensuring our programs always align with cutting-edge advancements in the industry. When we discover new, effective strategies to help clients, we are able to update our programs immediately, providing you with the latest knowledge and techniques. This commitment to continuous improvement is one of the significant benefits of training with IWA. While there are no legal or governing bodies or board certification required within many complementary and alternative practitioner fields and coaching industry, IWA’s education ensures that you have the highest standards of practice, confidence and excellence within the field.
Whether you are entering the workforce for the first time, or are seeking to expand your current practice, IWA is the perfect fit for your goals. Many IWA students are making a complete career transition while others are expanding their current practice in holistic wellness, holistic health, physical therapy, health care, social work, wellness coach, wellbeing coach, yoga practitioner or yoga therapeutics, mental health coaching, personal coaching, career change coach, mindset coach, life coaching, spiritual coach, pilates or fitness instructors, Reiki, massage therapy, nutrition, dietician, executive coaching, health coaches or other specialities within holism or the holistic health or holistic wellbeing fields. IWA will help you increase impact, skill and empowerment within the market as a certified professional coach or practitioner.
Our training is so extensive and diverse that often other certified coaches such as ICF coaches who studied through International Coaching Federation, and IIN – Institute for Integrative Nutrition trained nutrition coaches or those specializing as a wellness coach or nutrition coach, integrative health coach, chronic pain specialist, Reiki practitioner, breathing and mindfulness practitioner or breathwork facilitator, mental health therapist, massage therapist, teacher, practitioner in therapeutic yoga, longevity and lifestyle medicine, or other fields opt to expand their education and skills significantly through one of IWA’s integrative certification courses.
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