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HCA Designations

HCA is committed to public safety and providing support, accreditation, and valuable business resources to North America's booming industry of Health Coaches.   Accreditation of educational programs is focused on quality of instruction, overall curriculum, program delivery, and determining whether students completing the program have successfully learned the materials by way of effective knowledge testing methods

The table below outlines our three international designations.

LIST OF APPROVED SCHOOLS

HCA Registered Health Coach™ (RHC™)	HCA Registered Health & Nutrition Counselor ™ (RHNC ™)	HCA Registered Clinical Health Coach™ (RCHC™)A
Baseline Designation	Advanced Standing Designation	For Licensed Health Professionals
Minimum 200 Hours of Study ​obtained from a HCA recognized program	Minimum 1000 hours of study obtained from a HCA recognized program	MD, GP, ND, NP, DC + 100 hours or more of study from obtained from a HCA recognized program
Holistic Nutrition Basics, Introduction to Health Coaching & Behaviour Change	Functional Nutrition & Health, Evidence Based Health Coaching, MI and/or NLP	Evidence Based Health Coaching, Integrative Nutrition, MI and/or NLP
The basics of health and nutrition fundamentals including but not limited to macro and micronutrients, healthy diets, weight loss, healthy lifestyle modifications, and environmental health.	Advanced studies in functional health and nutrition including but not limited to nutrition sciences, life cycle nutrition, detoxification, microbiome, support of the body systems.	This is a special category reserved strictly for regulated health professionals who are incorporating health coaching into their practice.

SEE FULL LIST OF EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS HERE

**Please note that "licensed" will replace "registered" in jurisdictions where "registered" is a restricted title.