Small steps toward big change.
First Step Wellness can help you achieve your health and wellness goals at any stage in your life.
We provide an alternative approach to health and wellness. Through one-on-one Integrative Health Coaching, we look at your holistic wellness to develop a specialized program to help you achieve your health goals. Learn More
My name is Veronique, I am a national board certified health coach and the owner of First Step Wellness. Integrative Health Coaching is not just about your physical well-being, it is also about you as a whole person: your values, goals, work, balance, fulfillment and life purpose.
Through the coaching process, clients typically reach various goals, improve their performance and enhance their quality of life. During our initial appointment, we will be designing how we will work together. I will work to gain an understanding of who you are and what you wish for in your life, health and well-being. My approach puts you in the driver’s seat as we accelerate your progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice.
I look forward to our time together and to assisting you in achieving your optimal health and well-being goals.
“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.”
— Franz Kafka
What is integrated health coaching?
Are there health behavior changes that you want to make? Has a new health concern arisen that you want to pay particular attention to?
Health coaching effectively motivates and supports health behavior change through a structured partnership between the client and coach. A coach is like a “personal trainer” except the focus will be on your whole self. As a coach, I help clients develop and realize their optimal health vision through inquiry, personal discovery and accountability.
What services do you provide?
The Integrated Health Coaching relationship is a partnership. Both coach and client explore the client’s vision of optimal health. Through a series of guided conversations, we will take large health goals and sometimes overwhelming challenges and break them down into small action steps. As your coach, I am a resource for you to use to your best advantage. I will share concepts or insights and ask re-orienting questions that are intended to increase your success in attaining your health and personal development goals.
Examples of areas where Integrative Health Coaching can be effective and successful include, but are not limited to:
Management of Chronic Illness
The Management of Chronic Illness such as diabetes, hypertension or arthritis. The coaching process will assist you in exploring options and behaviors that will positively support traditional medical treatments and medications.
Anxiety, Stress, and Sleep
These issues can be addressed through coaching by allowing you to a supportive vehicle for self-discovery. During our sessions we will identify triggers that bring on stress, anxiety and disrupt sleep patterns. This will allow you to build new behaviors that counteract negative responses.
Weight Loss, Movement, and Nutrition
Weight Loss, Movement and Nutrition, the coaching partnership works to identify obstacles to change and create strategies for moving forward toward your goals. Our work supports you in tracking your weekly progress and hold you accountable for your commitments.
Personal and Professional Development
Personal and Professional Development through the coaching model, clients can examine the effects of their personal and professional environment on their overall long term health vision. Sometimes this leads to changing the conditions completely and other times this will means creating a framework to better manage their home or work situations.
Our offerings are built from the principles outlined in the Duke Integrative Medicine Wheel of Health. We use this as a guide to gauge where you might want focus your efforts.
Virtual Coaching
Our services can be offered virtually anywhere. We have clients all over the world and during these times, it’s important to be flexible and meet people where they are. Together, we can determine the best way to stay connected and conduct coaching sessions.
