The IHCPT Program is designed for medical and allied health providers and other professionals seeking to partner with their clients to improve their health behaviors and outcomes.

IHCPT Program participants represent diverse educational and professional backgrounds. Many represent licensed medical and allied health fields such as medicine, nursing, physical therapy, health education, social work, exercise physiology, psychotherapy, or nutrition. Others represent a wide range of professional fields such as public health, massage therapy, acupuncture, yoga therapy, personal training, ministry, education, business entrepreneurs, healthcare marketing and consultants, and other fields.

Participation in the IHCPT Certification Course is limited to those who have successfully completed the IHCPT Foundation Course.

The IHCPT Certification Course is an instructor-led distance learning course that provides an advanced level of training on the professional application of Integrative Health Coaching skills. This online course includes 5 Web Based Trainings (WBT) which guide learners through the course content as well as 8 Demonstration Videos showing several coaching sessions. On most weeks of the course, students will attend interactive distance-learning sessions. These sessions will include instructor-led small group learning sessions and individual sessions with a mentor instructor. Students will use a computer with a headset to access the WebEx online meeting center for each of these sessions. For the individual mentor sessions, students will bring an audio recording of a coaching session and receive personalized feedback from their mentor instructor.

At the conclusion of the course students will complete an online written exam and oral exam. The oral exam will allow students to demonstrate mastery of the skills learned and practiced throughout this course.

The IHCPT Certification Course is designed to help you:

• Gain a thorough understanding of the 9 stages of the Integrative Health Coaching Process Model.
• Select appropriate strategies to support clients in making a desired health behavior change to support their optimal health.
• Identify the structure of an Integrative Health Coaching session as well as a series of sessions.
• Explore the impact of a mindfulness practice on the Integrative Health Coaching relationship, specifically when encountering challenging coaching interactions.
• Apply Integrative Health Coaching skills, process, and partnership through practice sessions with your classmates and instructors.
• Enhance professional skills through the opportunity for mentored feedback on both live and recorded coaching sessions.

Yes. In order to receive a certificate of completion and earn continuing education credits, you must attend at least 7 of the 8 scheduled Group Sessions and all 3 of the scheduled Mentor Sessions. If you miss a Group Session you will be required to review the recording of the session and complete a brief participation quiz. If you miss one of the Mentor Sessions you will be required to pay a missed session fee and will need to reschedule the missed session.

You must also complete all of the online components of the training including Orientation, Web-Based Trainings, Demonstration Videos, Course Assessment, Course Evaluation, Written Exam, Oral Exam, and Attestation.

We reserve the right not to award a certificate of completion and continuing education credits if you do not complete all components of the training.

The entire training takes place online. There are no required textbooks or other materials.

In order to complete the required Group Sessions and Mentor Sessions you will need a computer with reliable internet access and a computer headset in order to join the online meeting sessions.

To access and complete the online training modules the minimum system requirements are as follows:

Internet Connection

• 0.5 Mbps (recommended 1+ Mbps), wired connection or Wi-Fi connection

General Software

• Adobe Acrobat Reader

Windows Operating Systems

• 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel® AtomTM 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbooks
• Microsoft® Windows® XP (32 bit), Windows Server 2008 (32 bit), Windows Vista® (32 bit), Windows 7 (32 bit and 64 bit), Windows 8 (32 bit and 64 bit), or Windows Server 2012 (64 bit)
• Internet Explorer 8.0 or later, Mozilla Firefox 17 or later, Google Chrome, or Opera 11
• 512MB of RAM (1GB of RAM recommended for netbooks); 128MB of graphics memory

Mac OS

• Intel CoreTM Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
• Mac OS X v10.6, v10.7, v10.8, or v10.9
• Safari 5.0 or later, Mozilla Firefox 17, Google Chrome, or Opera 11
• 512MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory

Chrome OS

• If you are using a Google device such as a Chromebook the device will display the course PDF documents with its internal software. Adobe Acrobat need not be installed on the system.

Before beginning, please make sure you have done the following.

• Enabled JavaScript
• Disabled Pop-up Blocker
• Depending on your organization's security settings you may need to make the learning center URL a Trusted Site

Tablets and Smartphones

• Using iOS or Android operating systems are supported

Yes. In order to receive credit for the course you must pass the written examination with 80% of the answers correct. You may take the written examination as many times as needed in order to pass.

A passing oral examination is also required to be certified by Duke Integrative Medicine as an Integrative Health Coach and receive the Duke IM Certificate of Completion.

Yes. Please refer to the Overview tab for details about available continuing education credits.

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8. What kind of official documentation will I receive at the completion of the training?

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9. What is the course refund policy?

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10. What does the registration fee cover?

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