Enrolling now for 1st April & 22nd June 2026.
The Health Coaching
specialists
LEADING SOUTH AFRICA HEALTH COACH TRAINING ACADEMY
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN A CAREER IN THE BOOMING HEALTH AND WELLNESS INDUSTRY?
Do you want to be trained in how to effectively support people to transform their health? Does the idea of helping others to radically improve their lifestyles excite and inspire you? Are you keen to learn a person-centred nutrition approach that is tried and tested and promotes optimum health and wellness?
The 12-month Health and Wellness Coaching Diploma from the Health Coaches Academy will teach you everything you need to know to become a highly skilled Certified Health Coach and build a thriving health coaching practice in South Africa.
Discover how you can qualify with a globally recognised, UK-accredited diploma, fully approved for practice in South Africa and internationally.
Enrolling now for next intakes: 1st April & 22nd June 2026.
HCA
HCA DIPLOMA IN HEALTH COACHING
OUR 12 MONTH TRAINING WILL TEACH YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO BECOME A HIGHLY SKILLED, CERTIFIED HEALTH COACH, AND BUILD A THRIVING HEALTH COACHING PRACTICE
THE FOUR PILLARS
OF OUR HEALTH COACHING DIPLOMA
FOUNDATIONS OF COACHING
You will learn the HCA health transformation coaching process to enable people to connect to what is most important to them and take control of their health and their mindset.
FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTH & WELLNESS
You will discover what it means to be healthy and learn all the key principles of optimal health and wellness from our physiology to our lifestyle behaviours and learn our blood sugar balancing approach to nutrition
HEALTH COACHING
IN ACTION
This is a very exciting part of the course because this is where you're going to bring together all that you've learned so far so that you can actually start to practise being a health coach.
BECOME A HEALTH & WELLNESS COACH
Our team who deliver the step-by-step Essential Launch Formula are also Mentors to the Nutrition Profession helping thousands of people to build successful practices. You will learn our step-by-step approach to creating a practice working with those you would most like to help.
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BONUS DONE FOR YOU COACHING PROGRAMME
You will receive your fully done for you coaching programme, coaching tools, materials and webinar, so that you are ready to practise upon completion of your studies. This provides you with everything you need to launch and run your Health Coaching practice.
WE'RE PROUD OF OUR
GOOGLE REVIEW SCORE
We automatically send a review invitation to every student on our Diploma course - and use Google reviews for impartiality and transparency.
Our 5.0 star rating is based on feedback from over 350 students.
ESTÉ RABÉ
- HCA GRADUATE, CAPE TOWN
Imagine in 12 months being able to start a whole new life & career.
Helping people to transform their health, improve their lives and grow in confidence is one of the most rewarding careers you could possibly have. We have been training others to be Health Coaches in South Africa since 2007 and have senior team members, mentors and support staff based in both the UK and South Africa. Our hands on highly experienced training team are dedicated to supporting you through our Level 5 (Ofqual regulated) Health Coaching Diploma. This gives you the highest level of professional, globally recognised training and is fully approved by COMENSA, UKIHCA and the Association for Coaching for practice in South Africa and internationally.
Book a Discover Health Coaching Call with one of our Senior Course Consultants
"TO SAY THIS COURSE HAS REDIRECTED MY LIFE IS AN UNDERSTATMENT"
-CARMEN PESKIN, CAPE TOWN
STUDY MODE: Part time / flexible hours
COURSE LENGTH: 12 months
LEARNING HOURS: 600 (90 live)
COURSE START DATES: 4 intakes per year
With HCA, you will become
your very own Health Coach!
In what way would you like to improve your health, your wellbeing or your life? Every HCA student benefits from their own form of personal transformation and the course is structured in this way; you will also receive health coaching as part of the process. What would you like to change about your own life or health? What are your goals for yourself? A new sense of purpose, a new level of health, energy and vitality? Reaching your own goals , changing your own life, will make you an even better Health Coach.
Here at HCA, we do things differently...
We give you more...
HEALTH COACHING TOOLS
HCA provide unique Health, Nutrition and Coaching tools, which you're taught to use as part of your Health Coach training. These tools have been carefully developed and refined through years of working effectively with Health Coaching clients.
All of our students benefit from these interactive Health Coaching tools, as well as our 'done-for-you' Health Coaching Programme, containing all the materials (from promotion to delivery) that you need to start practising as soon as you graduate.
WEEKLY MENTORING
A unique feature of our course is that you receive weekly mentoring with specialist mentors in:
Coaching, Health & Wellness, Nutrition, Health Coaching and Marketing. Our team of mentors inspire and support you fully throughout your studies. You will be working in a small group of 18 students who will become your close colleagues for the course and where many lasting friendships are made; what's more, you will all graduate together!
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A THOROUGH & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
You may find shorter courses, but we want you to be fully trained and come away feeling confident and prepared to take on the depth of knowledge you'll need.
This is our USP; at HCA we will never compromise on quality and do not believe in short cuts. We have a hands on highly experienced training team, dedicated to supporting you through our Level 5 (Ofqual regulated) Health Coaching diploma. This gives you the highest level of professional, globally recognised training and is fully approved by COMENSA, UKIHCA and the Association for Coaching for practice in South Africa and internationally.
A FLEXIBLE COURSE SCHEDULE
Your course can be completed part-time. It takes an average of 12 months.
We support you to complete your diploma around your current job or family responsibilities. We give you a wide choice of different live event times, so you can easily fit our diploma into your life. Any live events you can't make, are recorded and uploaded into your online academy, for you to watch in your own time.
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UNIQUE LIVE TRAINING WITH THE HCA SENIOR TEAM & DIRECTORS
We are the only diploma to offer this incredible opportunity to experience Health Coaching live with the leaders of our academy.
Our rich timetable of live events gives you regular live contact with the central training team and our panel of experts keeping you inspired throughout your training. We are the only Health Coaching college that offers the unique opportunity to experience health coaching live online with the leaders of our Academy across three dynamic days.
Health Coaching Diploma Syllabus
The course consists of core modules with lots of exciting topics to learn in each one. Your training builds through the stages of the foundations of coaching, health and nutrition through to the health coaching behavioural change process and right up to expert marketing skills for your business launch plan.
FOUNDATIONS
OF COACHING
FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS
WHY CHANGE IS A MUST, A CLIENT CENTRED APPROACH
DIFFERENT DIETARY
MODELS
LIFESTYLE FACTORS THAT PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH
BODY SYSTEMS
AND DISEASE
TAKING COMMITTED ACTION, SEEING REAL RESULTS
CREATING YOUR PERSONALISED HEALTH STRATEGY
ESSENTIAL LAUNCH FORMULA FOR HEALTH COACHES
COACHING MODELS & WORKING WITH DIFFERENT PERSONALITY TYPES
THE BUILDING BLOCKS
OF NUTRITION
CLIENT PROFILING AND GETTING CLEAR ON WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE
DIETARY & LIFESTYLE INTERVENTIONS TO SUPPORT GOOD HEALTH
ACHIEVING SUCCESS AND MAINTAINING SUCCESS
BLOOD SUGAR BALANCING
NUTRITION PLAN
OVERCOMING BARRIERS AND CHALLENGES
GETTING READY
TO COACH
DONE FOR YOU BONUS HEALTH COACHING PROGRAMMES & RESOURCES
Blended learning experience
You will enjoy a blend of weekly mentoring in small groups of no more than 18 students, inspiring webinars and workshops, coaching clinics, practise coaching TRIPODS and easy-to-follow short videos and presentations on our online academy.
Weekly group mentoring sessions in small groups
Experience coaching at our 1 and 3 day live online training events
Regular live webinars & guest events
Practise coaching sessions
Coaching volunteer case studies
Online step by step learning academy
Online video presentations
Recommended reading
Peer support and strong HCA community
Graduate awards ceremony
DONE FOR YOU Business start-up resources
What our Health Coach graduates say
"NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT HCA."
"I spent 18 years in marketing and then did a life coaching course but it didn’t feel quite right. On my journey I came across the HCA website and just knew this was the answer to what I was looking for - I spoke to Alison on my initial call with HCA and I knew instinctively this was for me. At the HCA 3-day live training I met Alex and we started a business together called the Health Coach Consultancy, and I've never looked back".
Leane, Western Cape
"BEST, MOST PRODUCTIVE, THOUGHT PROVOKING, AND EXCEPTIONAL COURSE EVER!"
I have found since attending the live training, I understand the modules and videos, and the course is so understandable.
I believe this has something to do with the fact that there was personal interaction with every single coach. I loved meeting like-minded people who share my passion for health and helping others!
Glynnis, Johannesburg
Hear why our students chose to train to become Health Coaches with HCA.
"I want to start changing people's lives."
Find out the benefits to you own health and wellbeing while training to become a Health Coach with HCA.
"It's amazing to see how you transform, and how your coaching can help other people"
Entry Requirements, Costs & Enrolment
Whilst there are no specific entry requirements, it's important you feel ready to study and are realistic about the commitment and the level of study involved.
This course often attracts those who are planning a new career and often have transferable skills which we recognise, whether you are educated at a higher education level or not. To join the HCA Health Coach training course, an essential requirement is that you are passionate and committed to making a difference to others; we therefore like to speak to everyone who is interested in training with us before we offer you a place.
ENROLMENT
There are four intakes a year giving you the choice to start the course at a time to suit you. We would love to chat to you and get to know you and we invite you to arrange a one to one call with one of our Senior Course Consultants; you will be speaking to a central team member or a graduate so you can get all your questions answered and discuss your interest in becoming a health coach. This is not an interview but is a pre-requisite before joining the course. Following the call, if the course is right for you, you will be sent your formal offer to join the next intake.
Our Health Coaching Diploma course is delivered through the perfect blend of live 3 day online experiential events, webinars and coaching clinics, case studies, practice coaching sessions and flexible online learning; you can fit your studies around other commitments too
HCA IS PROUDLY THE LEADING HEALTH COACHING ACADEMY
IN THE UK AND SOUTH AFRICA