Health coaches for physicians
Compare 60 health coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are stress and burnout, healthy habits, weight management and emotional eating. They most often work with physicians, professionals and women. Most charge $75 to $150 per hour or session.
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Adam Scheldt
Adam Scheldt is a burnout, grief and sleep coach based in Kenmore, New York. He works with individuals, couples and groups on stress, major transitions and personal growth. He has more than 20 years of experience across healthcare, non-profit, congregational and education settings. He spent over five years directing a counseling department at a hospice center. He sees clients in person in Western New York and online in the US and abroad.
Ali Novitsky
Ali Novitsky, MD, coaches women physicians on their health, stress and strength. Ali is a physician triple board-certified in pediatrics, neonatology and obesity medicine, and a Master Certified Coach. Ali founded The FIT Collective, a coaching, strength and continuing medical education company. Over ten years, it has worked with 3,000 women physicians. The company is a directly accredited ACCME provider, so doctors can earn required CME credit while getting support for their own health.
Amruti Borad
Amruti Borad is a physician coach who works with doctors and medical students. She is a Family Medicine Physician with a coaching certification. She has served as a Clinic Medical Director, Department Wellness Director and Department COVID-19 Lead Physician. She coaches on burnout, career transitions and practicing medicine with fulfillment. She is also a TEDx speaker, wellness blogger and event organizer. Sessions are one-on-one, by video or in writing, through Vorcis Physician Coaching.
Christina Adams
Christina Adams is a coach for women physicians who feel burned out and want a plan. She is also a board-certified OB-GYN who has practiced since 2006. She helps doctors set boundaries around their time and decide whether to stay in their job or move to a new path. She trained as a coach through The Life Coach School.
Gideon Strich
Gideon Strich is a burnout and career coach who works with healthcare professionals and executives. He spent over 30 years as a diagnostic radiologist and was a managing partner in a private practice group. He is a Clinical Professor of Radiology at University of California, Irvine. He wrote the book BurnoutRx for Healthcare Professionals. His coaching focuses on stress, burnout, communication skills, and finding meaning and purpose.
Jessie Mahoney
Jessie Mahoney is a physician coach who works with women in medicine. She blends mindfulness, coaching, and nervous system healing to help clients stop over-functioning and over-giving. She is a pediatrician who left her practice in 2020 to coach full-time. She began work in physician wellness in 2002 and coached physicians from 2018. She offers virtual coaching, retreats in California, keynote talks, and team programs for health systems.
Joe Sherman
Joe Sherman is a burnout and career coach for physicians and other health professionals. He is a pediatrician with over 35 years of clinical, academic and leadership experience. He spent his career on teaching and care for underserved and medically complex children. He has practiced in Washington DC, Tacoma, Seattle, Uganda and Bolivia. After his own burnout, he built a coaching and facilitation practice for health professionals, working with them one on one and in groups.
Kirsten Paynter
Kirsten Paynter is a coach for women physicians who want to stop surviving medicine and start flourishing. She spent 20 years as an academic physician at Mayo Clinic Arizona. She is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine. She was the only woman in her department for nine years. She also wrote a book chapter in Burnout in Women Physicians. She runs Everyday Flourishing and holds NBHWC certification.
Nicole Perrotte
Nicole Perrotte is a burnout coach for women in medicine. She is a board certified internal medicine physician and a certified wellness coach. She runs her practice as The Burnout MD. She has faced burnout twice herself. She offers individual coaching, workshops, speaking talks, and retreats. Her work covers self care, boundaries, imposter syndrome, and work-life balance for doctors who feel overworked and unfulfilled.
Nora Vasquez
Nora Vasquez is a physician and high-performance coach who helps doctors, healthcare leaders and other clinicians deal with burnout and build a better balance between work and life. She runs the Renewed Leaders in Medicine Coaching Program and works with clients one on one or as whole teams. Hospital staff, including medical directors, take part in her program. She also speaks at medical conferences on burnout in healthcare.
Archana Shrestha
Archana Shrestha is a physician and weight loss coach who helps busy physician moms lose weight and stop stress eating. She is an emergency physician who lived through what she calls double burnout, from work and from parenting. She lost weight herself by changing how she handled stress and emotional eating. She teaches a free 45 minute mini course that shows doctors how to end the dieting cycle without counting calories.
Erica Bove
Dr. Erica Bove coaches women physicians and professionals who are going through infertility. She is a board-certified OB-GYN and a reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist. She founded Love & Science Fertility. Her work mixes medical knowledge with mindset coaching. She offers private coaching, group coaching, and a 12 week course. Her course is accredited for 18 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.
Michael Hersh
Michael Hersh is a physician coach who helps doctors deal with burnout, overwhelm and life balance. He is also a gastroenterologist, so he knows the job from the inside. He went through burnout himself while chasing financial independence and trying to balance work and family. Coaching helped him rebuild his life around what mattered most. He now guides other doctors to do the same. He also offers a five-minute commute routine for leaving work behind.
Sarah Smith
Sarah Smith is a doctor and charting coach who helps doctors and nurse practitioners finish their work during the clinical day. She is a rural family doctor who has also worked in the ER and as a hospitalist. She spent 15 years finishing charts at night and on weekends before building her own strategies. Her program, Charting Champions, has a community of more than 1500 members and carries 5 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits.
Michele L. Dorfsman
Michele Dorfsman is a physician coach who helps high-achieving doctors handle stress, fatigue, and burnout. She has coached physicians for over 10 years. She is also a practicing academic emergency department physician, so she knows the job firsthand. Her coaching uses cognitive-behavioral exercises and thought reframing. Sessions are one-on-one by phone or video. She helps doctors reach both personal and professional goals.
Amanda Dinsmore
Amanda Dinsmore is a physician wellness coach who helps doctors recover from burnout. She is an MD and runs The Whole Physician. Her Wellness 911 program is built for the reality of shift work, call, cognitive overload and emotional labor. Clients get twice monthly coaching calls with a physician coach and monthly masterclasses with other physicians. The program follows a 5-step framework and aims to help doctors feel better within 30 days.
Jessie Turnbull
Jessie Turnbull is a burnout coach for women physicians. She is also a pediatric intensivist and clinical ethicist. She founded Burning Bright MD to help doctors recover from burnout and prevent it. Eight years into her first faculty job, she was 80 pounds overweight and exhausted. She used life coaching skills to lose 60 pounds and change how she handled work and personal relationships. She now coaches women in medicine on the same problems.
Chelsea Washington
Dr. Chelsea Washington is a burnout and embodiment coach in Virginia. She helps people move from overwhelm and burnout to steady self-care. She holds a Ph.D. in counseling and has a background in human relations. She is also a certified yoga and mindfulness instructor. She offers faith-based counseling and coaching, one on one or in small groups. Her clients include caregivers, medical practitioners, therapists, and pastors.
Claudine Holt
Claudine Holt is a burnout and embodiment coach who helps women in medicine recover from burnout, overwhelm and stress. She combines cognitive psychology-based tools with feminine embodiment theory. Her clients do not have to quit their job or leave medicine to recover. She holds three coaching credentials, including Board Certified Coach and Life Coach School Professional Certified Coach.
Miguel Villagra
Miguel Villagra is a physician and certified life coach who helps other physicians with burnout and career direction. He runs RevitalizeMD, a coaching program built on the Positive Intelligence mental fitness framework. It lasts 8 to 10 weeks and includes weekly group calls. He also offers PEX, a 90-day program for physicians who own or are building a practice or business.
Colleen Gibson
Dr. Colleen Gibson is an emergency medicine physician and certified life coach. She coaches medical professionals online through Doc Life Coaching. Her work centers on burnout, stress, and enjoying both medicine and life outside it. She also helps clients finish charts and leave work on time. Colleen works in the ER herself, so she knows the pressures her clients face. She offers a free 45 minute consultation.
Charity Hix
Charity Hix is a burnout and career coach who helps introverts in healthcare. She is a physician herself, so she knows the pressure of a medical career. She works with clinicians and other healthcare professionals who feel stuck, tired, or resentful at work. Her coaching focuses on putting yourself first, building steady energy, and letting go of guilt about wanting something better. She is based in West Virginia.
Dr Jo Braid
Dr Jo Braid is a burnout recovery coach and speaker who works with healthcare professionals and healthcare organisations. She is also a senior rehabilitation physician. She has delivered over 500 hours of coaching and hosts a podcast with 200+ episodes. Her work includes keynotes, workshops and leadership intensives for healthcare teams across Australia. She built her methods after going through burnout herself.
Priyanka Venugopal
Dr. Priyanka Venugopal is an ObGyn physician turned stress and weight loss coach for high-achieving professional women. She helps clients calm stress, stop stress snacking, and lose weight in a way that fits a busy schedule. She left clinical practice to coach full time, and she lost 60 pounds herself while working hospital shifts and raising two kids. She hosts a podcast with 180+ episodes and runs a CME accredited retreat in Cabo, Mexico.
Kristin Cianchetti
Kristin Cianchetti is a life coach who helps healthcare professionals with burnout. She works with physicians, nurses, NPs, PAs, pharmacists, PT and OT staff, and healthcare leaders. Kristin is a nurse and healthcare leader with 25+ years in the field. She helps clients find what drives their burnout and get back to clarity, balance, and a sense of control over their lives and careers. She also offers a 3-minute burnout assessment for healthcare workers.
Melissa Fransky
Melissa Fransky is a burnout coach who helps female physicians who feel overwhelmed and worn out. She is also a rural family physician in Canada, so she knows the job from the inside. She went through her own burnout and now coaches other doctors. Her work draws on psychology, neuroscience and coaching. She also gives talks and workshops made for physicians.
Sara Walker
Sara Walker is a family medicine doctor who coaches medical trainees through burnout. She finished residency and served as chief resident. During the COVID pandemic she became a certified life coach. She combines that training with her own time in the trenches of residency. Sessions are private, one-on-one, and held over Zoom. Many of her clients are trainees, and she keeps sessions short and low cost so they are within reach.
Lea Grace Famularcano
Lea Grace Famularcano is a physician wellness coach in Charleston, West Virginia. She helps busy, high-achieving professionals with burnout, emotional eating, and metabolic health. She is a board-certified Family and Obesity Medicine physician and runs Pivot Point Wellness, also called The Pivoting Physician. Her coaching uses small habit and mindset shifts instead of restriction, quick fixes, or willpower. She combines metabolic health tools, habit science, and self-compassion.
Zelda Okia
Zelda Okia, MD, is a weight loss and life coach for physicians and other healthcare professionals. She goes by Dr. Z. Her ReviveAnew program helps busy clinicians lose weight, stop stress eating, and make time for their own health. It includes weekly coaching calls, a group community, and journal tools. Bonus courses cover intermittent fasting and habit building. She teaches a method that avoids rigid diets and extreme workouts.
Alejandra Molina
Alejandra Molina is an anxiety and confidence coach in Miami. She helps high achievers, working parents, entrepreneurs, executives and physicians manage stress and find emotional clarity. She worked in nonprofits and grassroots development before moving into resilience and early childhood development in Latin America. She has lived in six cities in different countries. She built her own model, The Thriving Self, and runs her practice as The Bliss Well.
Arpita Gupta DePalma
Arpita Gupta DePalma is a physician and life coach who works with professional women. She teaches them to manage anger, time and self-worth by changing the thoughts behind their reactions. She coaches one on one and in groups, and many of her clients are fellow doctors. She runs a course called Transforming Your Anger and hosts the podcast Doctors Living Deliberately. She also offers a free video lesson on calming rage reactions. Her practice is called Thought Work, MD.
Cindy Tsai
Cindy Tsai is a life and wellness coach who is also a board-certified internal medicine physician. She helps women leaders, healers and physicians move from survival and overwhelm to calm and confidence. She is a TEDx speaker and the author of the book So Much Better. She created the Inspiring Success Story Method, which uses mind, body and spirit techniques. She also teaches mindfulness and trains in EFT, Reiki and Theta Healing.
Elizabeth Woods
Elizabeth Woods is a physician and life and leadership coach for women physicians and women leaders. She helps them recover from burnout, rebuild confidence, and lead in a way that fits their values. She has mentored healthcare professionals for over 14 years and has a background in trauma-informed care. She has helped hundreds of women, including with raises. She runs a program called The Physician Reset.
Gina Howell
Gina Howell is a burnout coach and executive coach for leaders in healthcare and public service. She began as a registered nurse, then managed public health programs. She led teams through several public health emergencies at Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada. Today she offers coaching, training and consulting.
Jimmy Turner
Jimmy Turner is a physician coach who helps doctors who feel stuck or burned out in medicine. He is a practicing academic anesthesiologist and a certified coach. He founded The Physician Philosopher and Money Meets Medicine. He coached hundreds of physicians through burnout, then shifted his focus to the money side of physician life. He co-hosts a physician personal finance podcast with more than 250 episodes and has written two books.
Mary Leung
Mary Leung is a physician and certified life coach who helps other physicians with stress, overwork and burnout. She works one-on-one with doctors who feel trapped or devalued. Before coaching, she was a full-time attending physician who worked far past her paid hours and spent long evenings on charts. Coaching cut her clinic day by more than 2 hours. She now helps physicians manage time, handle charting and leave work on time.
Melissa Williams-Platt
Melissa Williams-Platt is an executive, life and team coach in Gauteng, South Africa. She works mostly with doctors, nurses, surgeons and allied health professionals facing burnout, compassion fatigue, grief and moral injury. She also coaches C-suite executives, managers and teams. She holds a PCC credential and studied Palliative Medicine, passing Cum Laude. Before coaching, she spent many years in senior business management and led her own teams.
Santi Tanikella
Santi Tanikella is a pediatrician and life coach who helps exhausted parents break free from overwhelm. She also works with healthcare professionals on burnout and resilience. She founded I AM Well MD during COVID. It blends life coaching with mind-body practices like mindfulness and breathwork. She is a board certified pediatrician and Integrative Medicine specialist. She has led physician wellness lectures, workshops and retreats since 2006.
The Institute for Medical Leadership
The Institute for Medical Leadership trains and coaches physicians and healthcare executives. It has worked with over 800 hospitals and 37 medical societies in every U.S. state. Programs began in 2003, and the Chief of Staff Boot Camp has run 42 times. It also offers VirtualCMO, a part-time chief medical officer service for small, rural and critical access hospitals. Faculty teach leadership skills for a fast-changing healthcare market.
Vanessa Calderón
Vanessa Calderón is a coach for physicians, leaders and entrepreneurs who want to grow without burning out. She is a board-certified physician and Harvard graduate with 20 years of leadership and business development experience. She blends business strategy, nervous-system work, identity work and ancestral healing wisdom. She also built a burnout prevention program that helped hundreds of professionals, and its results were published in peer-reviewed medical journals.
Yara Demo
Yara Demo is an executive and leadership coach who helps physicians, healthcare leaders and other professionals. She holds an ICF PCC certification and is also a practicing neurologist. She trained at Northwestern and is triple-boarded. She focuses on burnout prevention and workplace wellness. She especially supports women leaders who want to move out of burnout and build careers with more impact and balance.
Alison Jamison
Alison Jamison is a life and weight loss coach who works with women physicians. She helps them get time back, lose weight, and feel like themselves again. Before coaching, she worked in program management, business advising and leadership development across healthcare, technology, manufacturing and banking. She also coaches with Weight Loss for Doctors Only. She is a certified Fair Play facilitator, and she also coaches women coming out as bi or pan later in life.
Diane Hough
Diane Hough is a life coach who guides women through big transitions in relationships, purpose and identity. She is also a licensed marriage and family therapist with more than 30 years of work with individuals and couples. Her coaching uses reflective dialogue, powerful questions, mindfulness, somatic awareness and values clarification. She works with clients who feel stuck, overthink instead of acting, or face a career change or major life shift. She offers a free consultation to see if coaching fits.
Robin Magnani
Robin Magnani is a life coach for women physicians. She helps them build a medical career and a personal life that fit together. She is a board-certified anesthesiologist and a Chief Medical Officer, so she knows the pressure of practicing medicine while balancing other priorities. She works one-on-one with clients on burnout, time management, and long-standing struggles that keep coming up. Her coaching starts with clarifying what a client wants and then building a plan to get there.
Terri Finney
Dr. Terri Finney is a Denver executive coach and licensed psychologist. She helps C-suite leaders, founders and senior managers build clarity, presence and performance. She has 35 years of clinical practice and 17 years of coaching executives. Her clients come from tech, energy, aerospace, healthcare and finance. She also offers burnout coaching, startup consulting and support with professional transitions. Sessions are held by video for clients in Colorado and across the country.
Jennifer Shaer
Jennifer Shaer is an executive and life coach for pediatricians. She works with women in the middle to late stages of their careers who feel burned out, unfulfilled or stuck. Shaer is a pediatrician and the Chief Wellness Officer of Allied Physicians Group. She holds coaching certifications in executive, life and physician development coaching. She offers three private programs that cover reconnecting with medicine, growing into leadership and retiring from clinical practice.
Kamini Wood
Kamini Wood is an anxiety and breathwork coach who helps high performers and overachievers. She is the creator of AuthenticMe and CEO of Live Joy Your Way. Her clients look at the beliefs that hold them back and build a new view of success that comes from within. She is trained in internal family systems, cognitive behavioral based coaching and acceptance and commitment based coaching. She also holds certifications in high performance and wellness coaching.
Lance Wagner
Lance Wagner is a coach for physicians at every stage, from residency through retirement. He spent more than three decades in medicine as an anesthesiologist, physician leader, department chair and medical educator. Health challenges of his own moved him away from clinical practice. Today he combines his clinical and organizational experience with advocacy, organized medicine, physician well-being and coaching. He helps doctors find clarity, build resilience and shape a sustainable career.
Rehema Kutua
Rehema Kutua is a physician and coach who helps people build lives that match their values. She uses a method called Healing Centered Coaching. She has spent more than 13 years in medicine and works as a community pediatrician serving under-resourced populations. She has also been an Assistant Medical Director in Washington DC and a science teacher in Jordan. She works in District of Columbia and coaches on leadership, resilience, and emotional intelligence.
Angela Veesenmeyer
Angela Veesenmeyer is a work life balance coach for physicians in Arizona. She is a physician herself and a certified life coach through The Life Coach School. She helps other doctors build the balance of work and life they want without leaving their jobs. She works with physicians who have been told to just set boundaries, go part-time, or hire out parts of their personal life.
Ashley Albers
Ashley Albers is a life coach who works only with physicians. Ashley is a licensed physician, so this coach knows the daily pressures of the job. Ashley offers small group coaching with other physicians and a written coaching option where clients message their coach each business day. Topics include burnout, work-life balance, career changes and better relationships. Ashley keeps equity pricing available so any physician can get coached.
Dr. Yashika Dooley
Dr. Yashika Dooley is a life coach who helps doctors manage their time and feel less overwhelmed. She teaches skills that medical school and residency left out. Her focus is on planning, setting priorities, and staying on task when everyone wants a piece of your day. She offers a free course that shows doctors where they lose time each day and how to change it. She also lived the same struggle as a doctor.
Elisa Chiang
Elisa Chiang is a life and money coach who helps physicians reach their financial goals while enjoying their lives. She is also a board-certified ophthalmologist and a fellowship-trained oculoplastic surgeon. She felt burnout in her first five years of practice, and that shaped her coaching. She uses a 4 step framework called GROW. She also offers a free Financial Independence Workbook made for physicians.
Melisa Boersma
Melisa Boersma is a certified life coach who helps women physicians and other professionals find balance in work, home and community. She is also a practicing radiation oncologist with board certifications in radiation oncology and hospice and palliative medicine. She has worked in rural, suburban and urban clinics since 2007. She was a Stanford All-American diver and co-captain of a national championship team.
Tricia James
Tricia James is a life and career coach for physicians. She is an academic internal medicine physician and wellness leader in the Pacific Northwest. She still practices medicine and teaches while she coaches. She went through severe burnout in residency and now helps other doctors with burnout, stress, and life and career transitions. She holds Master Coach Certification in trauma informed coaching and works with a small number of one-on-one clients.
Trina Dorrah
Trina Dorrah is a life coach who helps women in medicine build a life they enjoy. She is a practicing physician with an MD and an MPH. She is also a certified intuitive eating coach. She works with women who feel burned out, overwhelmed and stuck in their careers. Her coaching covers boundaries, clarity about what they want, goal setting and accountability. She coaches from her own experience of burnout in medicine.
Dr. Faryal Michaud
Dr. Faryal Michaud is a life and wellness coach who helps people make choices from clarity instead of fear. Faryal is also a practicing palliative care physician who cares for patients at the end of life. Faryal runs Living Intentionally, with one-on-one coaching and a small group program for women physicians. Faryal's work covers grief, life transitions, emotional resilience, and mindful living. Faryal is a Certified Teacher of Presence trained by Eckhart Tolle.
Mary Printz
Mary Printz is an executive and leadership coach in Calgary, Alberta. Mary helps executives, physicians and other professionals deal with burnout, stress and big career changes. Mary's coaching is built on Adaptive Development, a model from Harvard Graduate Studies. Before coaching, Mary spent over 30 years as an educational leader, school principal, consultant and entrepreneur. Mary has worked with clients from new managers to senior executives in education, healthcare, business and engineering.
Brad Fern
Brad Fern is an executive, leadership and team coach in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He coaches physicians and physician leaders, along with other leaders who want to grow. He runs an Adaptive Development program built to improve cognitive and emotional agility. He is also a licensed psychotherapist and a certified Physician Coach. He uses Immunity to Change coaching, which he writes about for doctors and healthcare executives.
Michelle Ofreneo
Michelle Ofreneo is a life coach and board-certified physician anesthesiologist. She helps high-achieving women who feel stuck in stress and self-doubt find calm and clarity. She works with clients one on one in private sessions. Her work covers life and work transitions, burnout, imposter syndrome, boundaries and time management. She came through her own burnout before she began coaching, and she runs Mindset Muscle MD Life Coaching.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Scheldt | Stress and burnout and Sleep | $100 to $180 an hour |
| Ali Novitsky | Stress and burnout and Weight management | $200 to $350 an hour |
| Amruti Borad | Stress and burnout and Healthy habits | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Christina Adams | Stress and burnout | $125 to $220 an hour |
| Gideon Strich | Stress and burnout | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Jessie Mahoney | Stress and burnout | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Joe Sherman | Stress and burnout | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Kirsten Paynter | Stress and burnout | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Nicole Perrotte | Stress and burnout and Healthy habits | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Nora Vasquez | Stress and burnout and Healthy habits | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Archana Shrestha | Weight management and Emotional eating | $90 to $145 an hour |
| Erica Bove | Fertility coach for women physicians and professionals | $75 to $125 an hour |
| Michael Hersh | Stress and burnout | $90 to $145 an hour |
| Sarah Smith | Stress and burnout | $90 to $145 an hour |
| Michele L. Dorfsman | Stress and burnout | $90 to $145 an hour |
Common questions
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Most health coaches charge $75 to $150 per hour or session.
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Common focus areas include stress and burnout, healthy habits, weight management and emotional eating.
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Last updated September 2026.