Webinar: Partnering for Adherence: How Health Coaches Bridge the Gap Between Prescription and Practice
(What happens between sessions is the key to better outcomes.)
Healthcare providers often prescribe movement and lifestyle changes, yet clients struggle to follow through. That’s not a knowledge problem. It’s an implementation gap. This webinar explores how partnering with certified health and life coaches can significantly improve client adherence, self-efficacy, and long-term outcomes (especially in women 40+). Learn how to build collaborative care models where fitness pros, coaches, and clinicians work in sync to help patients actually implement what they’ve been prescribed.
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the psychological and behavioral barriers to adherence that arise in medical fitness clients (especially women 40+) and how these challenges affect long-term outcomes.
Attendees will gain insight into how midlife clients internalize shame, perfectionism, and self-neglect, and how those patterns interfere with following through on prescribed movement, nutrition, and self-care protocols. By identifying these patterns, fitness professionals can tailor their approach and improve retention, engagement, and health outcomes.
2. Explore the role of certified health and life coaches in bridging the gap between clinical prescriptions and real-life behavior change.
Participants will learn how life and health coaches help clients build self-trust, emotional resilience, and practical habit strategies, all of which increase adherence to prescribed health behaviors. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of scope, ethical boundaries, and opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.
3. Learn how to create strategic referral pathways and collaborative care models that improve patient/client outcomes without increasing provider workload.
This objective focuses on systems-level thinking: how fitness centers can build referral relationships with health coaches, structure wraparound support teams, and use behavior coaching to enhance the effectiveness of clinical and fitness prescriptions. Attendees will leave with templates for outreach, communication, and partnership alignment.
Speaker: Elizabeth Sherman, Founder of Total Health by Elizabeth
Elizabeth is a Master Certified Life and Health Coach with over 18 years of experience, dedicated to helping women in midlife thrive through holistic health and wellness. Her personal journey began with a desire to reduce her own breast cancer risk, which evolved into a mission to guide women through the complexities of midlife health, from hormonal changes to mental clarity and emotional resilience.
Elizabeth holds certifications from prestigious institutions such as The Life Coach School, Precision Nutrition, and the American Council on Exercise, as well as specialized training in Feminist Coaching and Women’s Hormonal Health. Her approach is deeply empathetic, blending her extensive knowledge with real-life experience to empower women in their 50s and 60s to build sustainable health habits that last a lifetime.
Recognized as a top voice in women’s health, Elizabeth speaks regularly on stages, podcasts, and webinars, inspiring women to embrace midlife with energy, confidence, and joy. Her passion is helping women regain control of their health, so they can fully engage in the things that matter most to them—whether that’s pursuing new passions, maintaining strong relationships, or simply feeling great in their own skin.