Why Traditional Healthcare Can’t Do It All: A Case for Health Coaching

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We are incredibly fortunate to live in a time when modern medicine can do so much — emergency care, life-saving interventions, cutting-edge treatments. Traditional healthcare and hospitals play a vital role.

But if you’ve ever felt like something was missing in your care… you're not alone.

As an experienced ER Nurse, Primary Care Clinic Manager, and Coach, I have worked with many people striving to do their best— taking the medications (or trying to remember to), going to the appointments, listening to the advice — and still feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or stuck and unsure of where to turn.

Here’s the truth: traditional healthcare was never designed to support the full journey of healing and change. That’s where coaching comes in.

The Gaps Are Real — But So Are the Solutions

In the typical healthcare setting, as you all know, time is short and the focus is often on fixing the immediate problem, not having time to understand the whole person behind them. It's reactive and focused-not wrong but not really right for people.

It’s not because your PCP or hospitalist doesn’t care — it’s the way the system is built.

You are more than a diagnosis or a lab result. Your health is deeply connected to your stress levels, your routines, your mindset, your relationships, your story, your life.

That’s why coaching matters.

What Coaching Offers That PCP’s and Hospitals Can’t

As a Board Certified Health and Wellness Nurse Coach, I will walk alongside you — not to hand you an education packet or talk at you about your problems, but to help you to clarify your goals, define what works for you and support transformational, sustainable change in the areas that matter most to you.

This is care that sees the whole of who you are and provides the space to be honest, hopeful, and human.

I work with people who are:

Managing chronic conditions like diabetes or hypertension
Feeling overwhelmed, unsupported or unseen in the healthcare system
Longing for a reset — physically, mentally, and emotionally
Ready to feel more aligned, more in control, and more like themselves again

If any of that resonates with you, know this: you’re not the problem — the system just isn’t designed for this kind of work.

But I am.

Coaching Complements Your Care — and Transforms You

You don’t have to choose between coaching and medical care. In fact, they work best together.

Where healthcare reacts to the illness, coaching focuses on the whole person.

Where medicine is to treat the body, coaching supports the whole self.

Where the visit ends, the real-life work begins — and that’s where coaching meets you, right where you are.

You Deserve More

You deserve care that honors your whole self. A space where your voice matters, your goals are centered, and your progress is celebrated.

At It Is Well Coaching and Consulting, I offer that space — rooted in both clinical insight and deep compassion. I believe that wellness is possible, and it doesn’t have to be all on your shoulders.