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🔍Course Description:
The Behavior-Based Coaching Certification helps professionals understand why clients struggle with change and how to support lasting transformation. This course blends behavioral science, motivational interviewing, and coaching psychology to help you guide clients beyond surface-level habits and into meaningful, sustainable progress. You’ll learn practical communication and coaching tools that improve accountability, motivation, and long-term success.
Who Will Benefit:
- Certified Personal Trainers
- Health Coaches & Wellness Coaches
- Group Fitness Instructors
- Nutrition Coaches
- Anyone who works with clients on lifestyle change
Course Outcomes — Learners Will Be Able To:
- Identify the psychological and emotional factors that influence client motivation and consistency.
- Apply behavior-change models to help clients adopt sustainable lifestyle habits.
- Use active listening and motivational interviewing to strengthen client trust and accountability.
- Create individualized coaching plans that support long-term progress beyond surface-level goals.
- Facilitate positive mindset shifts and reduce self-sabotaging behaviors in clients.
- Communicate feedback in a way that encourages commitment instead of resistance.
Lionel University believes that the health and fitness of our society can be significantly improved by our students’ success as health, sports and fitness professionals. Our efforts to stem the tide of poor health and physical decline are multiplied exponentially as our graduates and members disseminate the institution’s principles and methods to their clients, peers and associates. Our mission is to inspire each and every student to positively impact the quality of life of each individual with whom they come in contact.





