Health coaches for physicians
Compare 58 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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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.
Ali Novitsky
Ali Novitsky, MD, coaches women physicians on their health, stress and strength. She is a physician triple board-certified in pediatrics, neonatology and obesity medicine, and a Master Certified Coach. She 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Amruti Borad
Amruti Borad is a physician coach and medical student coach in the United States. She is a family medicine physician who grew up in Southern California. She served as a clinic medical director, a department wellness director and a department COVID-19 lead physician. She now coaches doctors and medical students on burnout, career transitions and emotions. She also gives talks as a TEDx speaker, writes a wellness blog and organizes events.
Jenna Stewart
Jenna Stewart is an anxiety and burnout coach who helps people feel steady in their bodies and clear in their decisions. She runs a healing practice in Topanga, California. She is a former professional dancer and a licensed chef. She also trained as a somatic practitioner, myofascial release therapist and Reiki practitioner. Her own burnout from running a business shaped her work. She blends nervous system regulation, somatic healing and mindset work into one framework.
Archana Shrestha
Archana Shrestha is an MD and weight loss coach for busy physician moms. She is an emergency physician who knows the double burnout of work and parenting. She once coped with stress by eating, and she learned how to lose weight for the last time. She now teaches doctors who are moms to lose weight without diets or counting. She offers a free 3-day mini course built around the habits medical training creates.
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.
Adam Scheldt
Adam Scheldt is a breathwork and burnout coach who helps clients find calm during stressful times. He works with people on personal goals, strengths, stress and work-life balance. His clients include lawyers, physicians, teachers, social workers, students and retirees. He is also a Spiritual Director. Adam works mostly online. He also meets clients in person in Western New York. Helping others has been his career for two decades.
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 building a life and career that feel good. She works from firsthand experience in medicine, so she knows the pressures of the ER. Clients also work on finishing charts and leaving work on time.
Jessie Turnbull
Jessie Turnbull is a burnout coach for women physicians. She runs Burning Bright MD, a coaching practice built around burnout prevention and recovery. Jessie is a clinician herself and has walked the same path her clients are on. She works with women in medicine who feel something is missing in their practice, studies, research, or relationships with patients and colleagues. She offers a free 30-minute first consultation to see if the fit is right.
Kirthi Lilley
Kirthi Lilley is a burnout and financial coach in Michigan who works with physicians. She is also a full time practicing gastroenterologist and a certified life coach. She helps doctors deal with overwhelm, burnout and lack of time. Her own leadership roles give her a close view of academic practice settings, so she coaches physicians in those settings and in leadership positions.
Nora Vasquez
Nora Vasquez is a physician who coaches doctors, healthcare leaders and other health professionals. She helps them work through burnout, lead their teams well and build careers that last without giving up their wellbeing. She holds three high-performance coaching certifications. She runs the Renewed Leaders In Medicine coaching program under the name Renew Your Mind MD. She works with people one on one and with whole teams. Her coaching has reached physicians and advanced practice providers at Sauk Prairie Healthcare.
Sarabelle Lee
Sarabelle Lee is a burnout coach for medical trainees. She works with people in medical training programs who are pushed past their physical and mental limits. Her work focuses on the basic human needs that training often ignores, such as food, sleep and rest. She also offers money guidance and a planner called enough. Her business is Sarabelle Lee LLC, and she offers coaching by appointment.
Zelda Okia
Zelda Okia is a physician who coaches weight loss and healthy habits for doctors and other healthcare professionals. She works with people who care for everyone else and put their own health last. Her coaching covers emotional eating, stress, and time management for busy schedules. She runs a group weight loss program called ReviveAnew and pairs science-backed strategies with supportive coaching. Her method avoids rigid diets and punishing workouts.
Ana Vavrek
Ana Vavrek is a burnout and resilience coach who helps nurses, midwives and other health professionals. She is a Registered Nurse, so she knows the field her clients work in. Her coaching focuses on preventing burnout, building resilience and restoring passion for the profession. She also works on self worth, confidence and balance in life, work and relationships. Her method is solution-focused and trauma-informed, and it draws on neuroscience and positive psychology.
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.
Alison Jamison
Alison Jamison is a life and weight loss coach for women physicians. She is a certified coach and a Fair Play facilitator. She helps clients get their time back, lose weight, and feel like themselves again. She works on the mental load that comes with a medical career and a busy home. She knows the daily tools of hospital work, including the EMR. Her Clarity Call runs 50 minutes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. She is also a practicing palliative care physician who cares for patients at the end of life. She runs Living Intentionally, with one-on-one coaching and a small group program for women physicians. Her work covers grief, life transitions, emotional resilience, and mindful living. She is a Certified Teacher of Presence trained by Eckhart Tolle.
Lillian Emlet
Lillian Emlet is an energy leadership coach for healthcare clinicians. She helps stressed clinicians build a stronger mindset for work and life. She is an academic physician and healthcare leader with 15+ years of experience developing clinicians. Her company coaches every member of the healthcare team, including nurses, pharmacists, physicians and healthcare executives. She works on leadership for individuals and for teams.
Mary Printz
Mary Printz is an executive and leadership coach in Calgary, Alberta. She helps executives, physicians and other professionals deal with burnout, stress and big career changes. Her coaching is built on Adaptive Development, a model from Harvard Graduate Studies. Before coaching, she spent over 30 years as an educational leader, school principal, consultant and entrepreneur. She has worked with clients from new managers to senior executives in education, healthcare, business and engineering.
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.
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.
Erin Parsley
Erin Parsley is a confidence and embodiment coach who helps people feel more at home in their bodies and find inner freedom. Erin is an award-winning professional dancer, choreographer and dance educator. Coaching draws on movement, mindfulness and Human Design. Erin has held over 1500 private sessions with hundreds of clients, and has worked with surgeons, tech leaders, CEOs and symphony violinists.
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.
Nina Cherry
Nina Cherry is an executive, leadership and team coach in Makawao, Hawaii. She helps leaders build their strengths, leadership skills, self-awareness and resilience so they can have a strong impact on their staff and company. She has over 30 years of experience as a CEO strategist and trained therapist. She also supports doctors, nurses, medical leaders and their teams.
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.
Alex Robles
Alex Robles is a physician and NASM certified trainer who runs The White Coat Trainer. Alex coaches busy professionals on fitness, strength, and nutrition for long-term health. The focus is on the most time-efficient way to build muscle and improve healthspan. Alex works alongside Dr. Brittany Robles, and both are strength athletes. Workouts are built to fit into 30 minutes a day, either at the gym or at home.
Arpita Gupta DePalma
Arpita Gupta DePalma is a physician and life coach who helps professional women manage anger, time and mindset. She works one on one and in groups. Her coaching looks at the thoughts behind frustrated reactions, such as self-worth and perfectionism. She runs Thought Work, MD, offers a course called Transforming Your Anger, and hosts two podcasts. Her own turn to mindset coaching began after March of 2020.
Debra Blaine
Debra Blaine is an accountability coach and burnout coach. She is a physician turned author. She coaches writers who want to write and publish a book. She also coaches burned-out healthcare providers. Her practice, The Very Indie Press, is a coaching service for self-publishing. She guides clients step by step from manuscript to finished book. Clients keep all rights and royalties. She formats files for distributors and hands them over so clients upload the book themselves.
Elizabeth Woods
Elizabeth Woods is a life coach for women physicians and women leaders. She helps high-achieving women deal with burnout, rebuild confidence, and lead in a way that fits them. She is an MD and runs a practice called The Physician Reset. Her work centers on leaving toxic work settings, redefining success, and building a career with more time for what matters. She also offers a 7-day burnout reset guide.
Mary Leung
Mary Leung is a physician and certified life coach who works with other physicians. She helps doctors who feel stressed, overworked, trapped or devalued. Her focus is burnout, time control and work-life balance. She also helps physicians find better ways to handle charting and administrative tasks that run past clinic hours. Her practice is called Shining With Gratitude MD, and she offers one-on-one coaching built for doctors.
Melisa Boersma
Melisa Boersma is a life coach who works with women physicians and other healthcare professionals. She is also a practicing radiation oncologist. She holds active board certifications in radiation oncology and in hospice and palliative medicine. That medical work gives her first-hand knowledge of the pressure on high-level healthcare providers. She helps them find balance and fulfillment at work, at home, and in their communities.
Robin Magnani
Robin Magnani is a life coach for women physicians. She is a board-certified anesthesiologist who started her own practice early in her career. She struggled to fit work and family life together, then learned coaching tools that helped her build the practice and life she wanted. She now helps women doctors clarify what they want and build a plan to get it. Her coaching also draws on her Christian faith.
Santi Tanikella
Santi Tanikella is a pediatrician and life coach who works with parents who feel worn out in body, mind, and heart. She helps them get past overwhelm and enjoy the life they built. Her coaching covers burnout, self-doubt, stress, and stronger relationships. She also teaches parents how to support their families in a more whole-person way. She is a physician, and she records podcasts that back up her coaching work.
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.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Miguel Villagra | Stress and burnout | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Ali Novitsky | Stress and burnout and Weight management | $200 to $350 an hour |
| Christina Adams | Stress and burnout | $125 to $220 an hour |
| Dr Jo Braid | Stress and burnout | $100 to $155 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 |
| Erica Bove | Fertility coach for women physicians and professionals | $75 to $125 an hour |
| Kristin Cianchetti | Stress and burnout | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Melissa Fransky | Stress and burnout | $100 to $155 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.