Practical Health Coaching Skills for Health Professionals
Tuesday 7 October 2025 | 6:30pm-7:30pm AEDT (5.30pm-6.30pm AEST / 8.30pm-9.30pm NZDT)
As health professionals, we know lifestyle change is central to preventing and managing chronic conditions—but supporting clients to actually make those changes can feel frustrating, ineffective, or exhausting.
That’s where health coaching skills can make all the difference. By weaving simple coaching strategies into your consults, you shift from telling clients what to do, to guiding them to uncover their own motivation and set realistic, client-centred goals.
The result? More effective conversations, better follow-through from clients, and less burnout for you.
In this practical webinar, you’ll learn a core toolkit of health coaching strategies designed to fit into busy consults. You’ll leave with skills you can use straight away to make your practice more effective, efficient, and rewarding – for both you and your clients.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:
- Explain the difference between an “expert” approach and a coaching approach—and when each is most effective.
- Use a simple framework to set collaborative, client-centred goals.
- Apply practical techniques to tap into a client’s motivation for change.
- Share your expertise in a way that honours a client’s experience and autonomy.
- Walk away with strategies that save time while increasing client engagement and outcomes.
Includes 15 minutes for live Q&A.
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This is a free webinar, exclusively for members of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM).
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About the presenter

Sharon Curtain
Accredited Health Coach & Dietitian
Sharon Curtain
Sharon is a Dietitian, Certified Health Coach, Certified Trainer and Assessor, Trained Facilitator, Director of Accredited Health Coaching Australia, Board Member of Health Coaches Australia & New Zealand Association (HCANZA), and Author and Owner of the Diploma of Health Coaching.
Sharon has worked for 27 years as a dietitian, health coach, trainer and presenter. She worked for five years as a clinical dietitian and another five years in corporate nutrition, delivering nutrition training programs. Sharon currently trains students, practitioners and coaches individuals in health behaviour change.
Sharon developed and authored the first Australian Diploma of Health Coaching, run in collaboration with Victoria University Polytechnic and was the course co-
ordinator and lecturer. She delivers online health coaching training courses to health professionals via Accredited Health Coaching Australia as well as running tutorials and live events for health professionals and non-health professionals in the areas of nutrition and health coaching for Ulleo short courses and for the Masters of Lifestyle Medicine at James Cook University.
