Stress Management & Integrative Wellness Coaching
- Stop feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety.
- Regain control of your physical and mental health.
- Live a more enjoyable, purposeful life.
I founded Working On Calm to explore simple, science-based strategies for a calmer, healthier life. Originally started as a blog to document my personal journey with anxiety, it naturally expanded to include helping others.
At my breaking point, I was overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, and illness. I desperately needed realistic solutions that would work with my hectic life. Taking baby steps to rebuild my wellness, I emerged from the process a calmer, healthier, happier mom.
Now, I help others make similar changes. My clients learn to prioritize health and wellness with an emphasis on self-care that reduces stress and builds resilience. As a certified integrative wellness coach, I leverage my professional experience as a consultant, trainer, and educator with my personal experience as a recovering burned-out mom.
“I use my expertise in psychology, integrative health, and behavioral change to help clients who are overwhelmed, stressed out, and anxious make simple, but proven lifestyle changes that improve well-being.”
Melissa Lewis-Duarte, Ph.D., NBC-HWC
Whether you’re an individual looking to make small habit changes or an organization interested in prioritizing the well-being of your people, I can help. I offer a variety of tools and interventions to meet your unique needs. See below for more details.
Integrative Approach
I offer a unique perspective, a blending of both professional expertise and personal experience. I value evidence-based practices and research, but know these solutions have to work in the real world. I’ve lived with anxiety, struggled with illness and trauma, and grappled with life’s competing demands. I get it.
Here are a few values I know to be true.
Wellness is multi-faceted.
We must take into account the psychological, physical, and environmental aspects of health and happiness. As an Integrative Wellness Coach, I focus on seven core areas of health:
- Sleep & Rest
- Movement
- Nutrition
- Relationships
- Resilience
- Purpose & Meaning
- Environment
We need all of these core areas to be functioning in order to “feel well.” This is where the mind-body connection comes into play. There is no physical health without mental health, and vice versa.
Modern medicine often focuses on disease treatment instead of prevention. When interventions don’t address the whole picture of health, we create a never-ending cycle of stress and illness.
Self-care is healthcare.
Wellness is an individual responsibility and right. Although we can’t control what happens to us, we can direct our outcomes. This requires us to prioritize our self-care and treat it as healthcare. It must be a priority.
Although there are many solutions that work, there is no “one size fits all” approach. We all differ in how our bodies and minds interact and both healthcare and self-care must take this into account. My clients are the experts in their needs, lives, and health. I am the expert in facilitating the change effort.
Change doesn’t have to feel overwhelming.
We all have a basic understanding of the things we should be doing to be healthier. Our doctors can give us advice, like “decrease your stress,” or “exercise more,” but this advice rarely results in long-lasting change.
Often, it’s not a knowledge issue, but a habit issue. That’s where Integrative Wellness Coaching fills the healthcare gap. I help you create long-term habit change.
In addition, many of us have gone years without caring for our well-being. It’s a process to learn to be well and prioritize our own needs. By establishing realistic expectations, starting small, and figuring out what works, we can create manageable change that is sustainable.
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One-on-One Coaching
Struggling to prioritize your wellness?
Let’s work on it.
As a Nationally Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, I help you define your priorities, set wellness goals, and implement realistic changes. You build healthy habits; I facilitate the process.
You can do this. I’m here to help!
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FAQ
What is Integrative Wellness Coaching?
“Integrative Health & Wellness Coaching is a client-centered, relational approach to working with individuals collaboratively to address the health and well-being of the whole person.
It acknowledges the interdependent roles of mind, body and spirit, and the innate healing capacity within each person, with an emphasis on self-care.
An integrative health & wellness coach forms a partnership with individuals or groups to empower and support them in achieving their personal goals related to optimal health and wellness.”
– Andrew Weil Center For Integrative Medicine
What does wellness coaching entail?
The coaching process is rooted in evidence-based practices for sustainable behavioral change. During the initial session, the client identifies their motivations for change, assesses their core areas of health, sets a short-term health goal, and commits to a few manageable action items. Follow-up sessions are done every 1-2 weeks to assess progress on the action items, reinforce accountability, make course corrections as needed, and create new action items to ensure goal attainment.
How is wellness coaching different from other healthcare services?
Whereas other healthcare providers may offer advice on what changes need to happen, a wellness coach offers advice on how to implement those changes so they become healthy habits. Often, health is not a knowledge issue, but a habit issue. This is where wellness coaches fill a healthcare gap with a complementary service. Coaches offer expertise in motivation, goal setting, and behavioral change, NOT medicine or therapy.
Who is a good candidate for wellness coaching?
Wellness coaching is helpful for anyone who wants to improve their health but needs or wants guidance and accountability. Coaching clients often seek to improve one of the core areas of integrative health, such as sleep, movement, nutrition, or stress management, with the understanding that all areas of health impact mind-body wellness. Here are a few examples of previous clients’ goals:
- In 10-weeks I will be moving for 20-minutes, 3 times per week.
- In 3-months, I will be meditating daily for 15-30 minutes.
- In 12 weeks, I will be preparing 3 dinners a week and meal planning and grocery shopping weekly.
- In 8-weeks I will be falling asleep within 30-minutes of going to bed and sleeping for 7 hours.
Who is the coach?
I have a Ph.D. in Psychology and am a Nationally Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC). In the past, I worked in business consulting, corporate training, and higher education prior to receiving her certification in Integrative Wellness Coaching from the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. I founded Working On Calm, LLC to explore simple, science-based strategies for a calmer, healthier life. It is my mission to help others prioritize health and wellness, emphasizing practical strategies for reducing stress and increasing resilience. I lives in Scottsdale, AZ with my husband and three young boys.
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Workshops & Retreats in Scottsdale, AZ
Manage stress; prevent burnout.
I create and facilitate tailored workshops to help participants prioritize their health and wellness. Whether it’s a one-hour, virtual meeting or a full-day, in-person retreat, I deliver content to meet your organizational needs.
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