Joanie Belair

I became a Functional Medicine Health Coach after many years as a registered nurse. I believe Functional Medicine and health coaching are on their way to creating an exciting positive change in our health care system and I want to be part of it!The Functional Medicine Health Coaching curriculum is a systems based approach. It's about integration, interconnectedness and personalization.  The benefits of learning and using this method of teaching, referred to as the "FMCA 6 Branches of Knowledge", feel ancient and modern at the same time. Health coaches are well positioned to benefit individuals by integrating lifestyle medicine and mind body medicine with the newer sciences of functional medicine (getting our bodies and minds to function properly), functional nutrition (food as medicine) and positive psychology. My idea of health coaching is to support clients to live their fullest and most vibrant lives through ALL the decades of life using the skills, toolbox and techniques we have been taught at FMCA.