Health Coaching
Closing the Loop on Health Coaching
By James Maskell
When we first started the Functional Forum back in 2014, one of our core missions was to popularize the clinician-coach dyad as the most efficient way to deliver functional medicine. My business partner, Gabriel Hoffman, was one of the first coaches in a functional medicine office when I met him in 2008. In our field, one of the foundational principles is that the locus of control must shift from the doctor to the patient. True healing happens when patients become active participants in their own care—when they’re empowered to implement the lifestyle, psychosocial, and environmental changes that underlie sustainable wellness. And that’s where coaching comes in.
