Specialized health coaching education for practitioners who work with women, combining established coaching methodology, Menstrual Cycle Awareness, and hands-on practice.
We're introducing a new certification at IMH, created for practitioners who want to deepen their understanding of health coaching and develop the skills involved in helping clients make meaningful, realistic changes in their lives.
Developed and led by IMH graduate Kate Nguy, this six-month program brings together motivational interviewing, behavior change, client communication, and a distinctive approach to coaching with the menstrual cycle in mind.
And because coaching is something you learn by doing, you'll have opportunities to put these skills into practice through live training, peer coaching, reflection, and feedback.
Our inaugural cohort begins November 2026, and it's open to everyone: IMH students and graduates, and practitioners who are new to IMH.
Think about some of the situations that come up when you're working with women on their health.
A client understands the recommendations you've discussed, but she's struggling to follow through. She wants to make changes, yet every time you check in, the same obstacles are still there.
Another client has tried so many different approaches that she's become discouraged. She's overwhelmed by everything she thinks she needs to do, and another list of recommendations probably isn't going to help.
Or perhaps a client becomes emotional during a session, and you're trying to figure out how to respond thoughtfully while keeping the conversation productive and within your professional scope.
These are situations where dedicated coaching skills can make a meaningful difference.
Understanding behavior change, asking purposeful questions, recognizing ambivalence, and collaborating on realistic goals can help you approach these conversations with greater skill and intention.
And just like the other professional skills you've developed through your education, coaching is something you can continue learning and refining.
A client might understand the relationship between chronic stress and her menstrual cycle, but that doesn't mean she can easily reduce the demands on her time.
She may know that consistent meals would be helpful, but her work schedule makes that difficult. Or she may have spent years trying to change certain habits and developed a lot of frustration along the way.
In these situations, offering another strategy may not be the most useful place to start.
Health coaching provides a framework for exploring what a client wants, what she's finding difficult, and what changes feel possible within the reality of her life.
Inside the certification, you'll develop skills in several important areas:
These methods are useful whether you're preparing to see your first clients or looking to refine an established approach to client work.
What makes this certification distinctive is how Kate has brought together established coaching methodology, women's hormone health education, and her training in Menstrual Cycle Awareness.
You'll explore different ways to track and observe your cycle, reflect on patterns you notice, and consider how your needs and experiences may change throughout the month.
This isn't about assuming every woman experiences the same patterns or prescribing a particular way to live during each cycle phase. It's about developing body literacy and learning how to introduce cycle awareness thoughtfully into coaching conversations.
From there, the curriculum explores how to apply coaching methodology across several interconnected areas:
Using cycle tracking, reflection, and individualized patterns to inform conversations about health, goals, and daily life.
Understanding how stress, internal expectations, and nervous-system responses may affect a person's experience of change, while respecting the boundaries of health coaching.
Considering sleep, nutrition, movement, relationships, stress, life stage, and other circumstances that influence a client's health and well-being.
Integrating coaching with your existing education, communicating your role clearly, and recognizing when additional professional support is needed.
The result is a coaching education that takes women's health seriously without reducing every experience or decision to hormones.
Enrollment is open until November 6. The first cohort is limited to 30 students.
See Tuition & EnrollThe Women's Hormone Health Practitioner Certification and Women's Health Coaching Certification are two distinct educational programs, each with its own focus.
Develops your understanding of menstrual and hormone health, including physiology, symptom patterns, clinical reasoning, assessment, and practical application with clients.
Provides dedicated training in coaching methodology, motivational interviewing, behavior change, client communication, and the structure and practice of coaching sessions.
If you're already an IMH practitioner, you're bringing substantial women's health education into this certification. The coaching program gives you an opportunity to develop another area of professional expertise and consider how these approaches can work together in your practice.
If you're new to IMH, you don't need the Practitioner Certification first. The coaching program begins with your own menstrual cycle and teaches the women's health context you need for the coaching work.
And if you've already completed a health coaching certification elsewhere, you may recognize some of the foundational methods. The difference here is the opportunity to study and practice them within the context of women's health, with Menstrual Cycle Awareness woven throughout the curriculum.
The Women's Hormone Health Practitioner Certification covers female physiology, symptom patterns, common conditions, labs and clinical reasoning in twelve modules. It's the companion to this program, and many students take both.
There's a reason we've made practical experience such an important part of this certification.
You can study motivational interviewing, learn the principles of behavior change, and watch an instructor demonstrate a coaching session. But having those conversations yourself is a different experience.
What do you do when a client gives you a one-word answer? How do you respond when she becomes frustrated or changes her mind about a goal? When is it useful to ask another question, and when might it be better to stop talking and listen?
Throughout the program, you'll have opportunities to practice these skills, reflect on your approach, and receive feedback.
Here's how the learning process works:
Work through recorded lessons covering coaching principles, techniques, and practical applications.
Complete module reflection questions and exercises that help you examine the concepts in relation to your own experiences and future client work.
Participate in interactive live training, small-group exercises, and independent partner coaching sessions. You'll experience the process from both the coach's and client's perspectives.
Reflect on your sessions and exchange feedback with peers to identify what worked well and where you can continue developing.
Complete the program's required assessments, including written, knowledge-based, and practical components.
The program combines recorded education with live teaching, coaching exercises, and opportunities to ask questions. Some live participation and independent partner coaching are required to graduate, while additional office hours provide optional support.
These calls take you deeper into key topics from that month’s modules, then give you the chance to put the skill to work. You’ll be partnered with another student to practice the coaching skill being explored and receive feedback from your practice partner. It’s one of the most direct ways to build confidence in applying what you’re learning.
Each Coaching Integration Call welcomes an established coach as a guest speaker. They’ll share the knowledge, experience, and techniques behind a specific coaching skill they’ve developed in their own practice. These calls widen your perspective beyond a single teaching voice, so you can see how experienced coaches approach this work and consider what you want to bring into your own.
Office Hours give you space to bring your questions about the module content released that month. Maybe a concept didn’t quite land, or you’re wondering how it applies to a client situation you have in mind. This is your time to ask, get clarification, and leave feeling clearer about the material. Office Hours are optional, so you can join whenever you’d like extra support, with no formal teaching or skills practice to keep up with.
You can study a coaching conversation, but holding one is a different experience. At the end of your first month, you’ll be partnered with another student, and the two of you will arrange five practice sessions at times that work for you both. Each session focuses on an assigned coaching skill. You’ll each take a turn in the coach’s chair, then reflect on the experience together. All five sessions are required for certification.
To graduate, attend at least 6 of the 8 Content Teaching and Coaching Integration Calls. Office Hours are optional, and all five Peer Practice sessions are required.
Enrollment is open until November 6. The first cohort is limited to 30 students.
See Tuition & EnrollThe curriculum begins with your own menstrual cycle and experience of behavior change, then moves into coaching methodology, client conversations, and the practical considerations of working as a women's health coach.
Module 1
Explore Menstrual Cycle Awareness through your own experience, including cycle tracking, body literacy, and personal reflection.
Module 2
Learn the foundations of an effective coaching relationship, including motivational interviewing, communication, professional ethics, boundaries, and referrals.
Module 3
Examine behavior change models, stress, nervous-system responses, and trauma-informed coaching principles within appropriate professional scope.
Module 4
Learn to use whole-person assessment tools, identify client priorities, and collaborate on realistic goals, including goals informed by menstrual cycle awareness.
Module 5
Explore coaching considerations for women with different health concerns, hormonal conditions, life stages, and individual circumstances.
Module 6
Work through discovery calls, intake sessions, ongoing coaching conversations, documentation, and practical approaches to session structure.
Module 7
Examine the professional foundations of a coaching practice, including client agreements, documentation, boundaries, and communicating your services.
Module 8
Bring your learning together, reflect on your professional approach, and develop a plan for putting your coaching education into practice.
The program is delivered online, so you can work through recorded lessons around your existing commitments while participating in scheduled live activities with your cohort.
Business Tools
Ready-to-use intake forms, coaching session outlines, communication templates, and protocol resources so you can support clients with confidence from day one.
Nicole's sales conversation framework, consultation structure, plug-and-play client agreements, legal guidelines, and recommendations for tools that protect and grow your practice.
An extensive library of guest expert presentations on PMOS (formerly PCOS), fibroids, gut health, perimenopause, fertility, hormone testing, and many more topics.
Community
A private, supportive community of current students and alumni. Ask questions, share wins, and get support from Nicole and her team.
Quick, real-time connection with fellow students right from your phone, for on-the-go questions and encouragement between calls.
Your enrollment also includes the Health & Wellness Library: 25+ recorded presentations from leading practitioners and researchers in women's health.
Program Creator & Lead Instructor
Kate is a graduate of IMH's Women's Hormone Health Practitioner Certification, with a background in health coaching and additional training in Menstrual Cycle Awareness.
She is the creator of the Hormone R.E.S.T. Method and host of the What the HORMONES podcast.
Kate developed the Women's Health Coaching Certification curriculum, bringing together her experience in health coaching, menstrual cycle awareness, and women's hormone health.
She'll lead the program's education and live training, guiding students through the coaching methods and practical exercises that form the foundation of the certification.
Founder, Institute for Menstrual Health
Nicole is the founder of the Institute for Menstrual Health, creator of the Women's Hormone Health Practitioner Certification, and author of Fix Your Period.
Through IMH, she has educated practitioners around the world in menstrual and hormone health, with a focus on understanding women's physiology and applying that knowledge thoughtfully in client work.
Nicole will contribute to selected teaching sessions throughout the Coaching Certification, bringing her experience in women's health education and practitioner training.
The program will also feature contributions from guest instructors who bring additional perspectives and expertise to selected topics.
Jennifer Racioppi
Coaching Integration Call
Jennifer Racioppi is an astrologer, certified Duke Integrative Medicine Health Coach, and author of Cosmic Health: Unlock Your Healing Magic with Astrology, Positive Psychology & Integrative Wellness (Little, Brown Spark). For more than 15 years she has worked at the intersection of women’s health, astrology, and evidence-based behavior change. Her method blends positive psychology, somatic awareness, cyclical living, and expressive writing. She works with authors, founders, creators, and executives: accomplished women who feel a pull toward authentic self-expression and leadership without sacrificing their health. She’s been a regular guest on The Today Show, has taught at Omega Institute and Astrology Hub, and her work has been featured in Well+Good, Cosmopolitan, Forbes, Business Insider, MindBodyGreen, and Netflix Family. She believes success isn’t a race, it’s a rhythm.
Sarah Tacy
Coaching Integration Call
Sarah Tacy Tangredi is a devoted mother, wife, and friend who brings her evolving wisdom and compassion to all aspects of life.
Professionally, she is an accomplished mind/body trainer of former Olympians, professional athletes, executives, and entrepreneurs.
She has a masterful understanding of the way the body functions, and how its function impacts emotions and quality living. Through nervous system support, attuned listening, and somatic exploration, her work creates new possibilities for her clients' lives, their work, their bodies and beyond.
Sarah has helped people with debilitating injuries, chronic pain, anxiety, as well as walking people through their own personal dark night of the soul. She has taught other teachers multidimensional techniques in various local and international yoga teacher trainings since 2010. She has hosted a handful of thought leaders in Maine for Leverage Events, and is now the host of Threshold Moments podcast, a podcast about the journey to truer versions of ourselves, and helpful tools to get us there.
Sarah is an evolving mother, wife, and friend. She believes that the body is always speaking to us, and if we can create space and support on as many dimensions as possible, repair and transformation will unfold.
Dr. Jessica Drummond
Coaching Integration Call
Dr. Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC, is the founder and CEO of The Integrative Women’s Health Institute, The Outsmart Endo Health Coaching Program, and the creator of the Women’s Health Coach Certification.
She is passionate about caring for and empowering people who struggle with women’s and pelvic health concerns. She is equally passionate about educating and supporting clinicians and wellness professionals in confidently and safely using integrative tools to transform women’s and pelvic healthcare.
Dr. Drummond has two decades of clinical experience as a licensed physical therapist, licensed clinical nutritionist, and board certified health coach working with women with pelvic pain, including endometriosis, vulvodynia, and bladder pain syndrome.
She brings a unique, conservative, and integrative approach to supporting women to overcome hormonal imbalances, and chronic pain conditions. She is a sought after international speaker on topics such as integrative pelvic pain management, natural fertility options, optimal hormone health, menopause, and female athlete nutrition.
Dr. Drummond was educated at the University of Virginia, Emory University, Duke Integrative Medicine, and Maryland University of Integrative Health.
Enrollment is open until November 6. The first cohort is limited to 30 students.
See Tuition & EnrollOur inaugural cohort is open to everyone: graduates and current students of IMH's Women's Hormone Health Practitioner Certification, and practitioners and career-changers who are new to IMH. No other IMH program is needed first.
You may be particularly interested in this training if:
You want dedicated education in how to structure coaching conversations, develop collaborative goals, and apply coaching methods in practice.
You'd like to deepen your communication and behavior change skills, explore Menstrual Cycle Awareness as a coaching tool, or refine how you approach particular client situations.
You're ready to begin developing specialized coaching skills alongside your ongoing women's hormone health education.
You're interested in applying established coaching methods more specifically to women's health and learning alongside other practitioners in the field.
You work with women in a health role, or plan to, and want a coaching certification built around women's health and the menstrual cycle.
You don't need to be at a particular stage of your professional career to benefit from studying coaching methodology. What matters is whether this is an area of education you want to develop.
Upon successfully completing the program requirements, you'll earn the Certified Women's Health Coach credential issued by the Institute for Menstrual Health.
The certification is designed to help you develop practical skills in conducting coaching sessions, using motivational interviewing, supporting behavior change, incorporating Menstrual Cycle Awareness, and working within appropriate professional boundaries.
Certification requirements include:
These requirements are designed to assess your understanding of the material and provide opportunities to demonstrate how you're applying the coaching skills taught throughout the program.
We're welcoming a maximum of 30 students into the first Women's Health Coaching Certification cohort, beginning in November 2026.
This smaller cohort allows us to incorporate interactive learning, partner coaching, and opportunities for discussion and feedback throughout the program.
Enrollment dates
October 21 – November 6, 2026
Inaugural cohort tuition
$2,997USD
Standard tuition will be $3,997 USD. For this first cohort, we're offering a $1,000 reduction in tuition.
Enrollment opens on October 21st and closes on November 6th
Book a Free ConsultationEnrollment closes November 6, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern, or earlier if all 30 places are filled.
| Payment option | Total tuition |
|---|---|
| Pay in full: $2,997 | $2,997 |
| 3 monthly payments of $999 | $2,997 |
| 6 monthly payments of $527 | $3,162 |
| 9 monthly payments of $357 | $3,213 |
| 12 monthly payments of $277 | $3,324 |
Extended payment plans have a higher total cost than paying in full.
Still have questions? Reach out to our team at hello@instituteformenstrualhealth.com
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This is the first time we're offering dedicated health coaching certification training at IMH, and we're looking forward to bringing together a small group of practitioners who want to develop these skills.
Over six months, you'll have the opportunity to study with Kate and our teaching team, practice coaching with your peers, and build on the women's health knowledge you bring with you.
Enrollment is open October 21 – November 6, 2026.
