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.
The table below outlines our three international designations.
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. |
**Please note that "licensed" will replace "registered" in jurisdictions where "registered" is a restricted title.
