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Janette Gale is a practicing Health Psychologist and founder of Health Coaching Australia. She consults to government and industry on the implementation of health behaviour change processes into chronic condition prevention and self-management programs. She is an Australian leading authority on health coaching principles and professional practice and is the primary developer of the HCA model of health coaching for health behaviour change.
Janette has extensive experience in using health coaching techniques in her work with individuals and groups to enhance their health and prevent or manage chronic health conditions. She has also designed and facilitated several innovative community-based, government & industry funded health promotion and education programs targeting lifestyle change for adults and families. Currently Janette is completing a doctoral thesis investigating issues around making lifestyle changes during pregnancy to avoid excessive gestational weight gain. She is an active member of the Australian Psychological Society College of Health Psychologists and is a member of the current NSW Health Chronic Disease Management Program Clinical Reference Group.
Janette co-developed Australia’s first health coaching professional development program for health professionals with Andrew Dawson at Deakin University, Victoria. She has previously lectured in Consumer Behaviour, Marketing and Research Methods at the University of Sydney.
View a description and outcomes of the Kangaroo Valley Healthy Community Project funded by the Rural Chronic Disease Initiative, Department of Health and Ageing. Health Coaching Australia, in conjunction with the Kangaroo Valley Lions Club and the Shoalhaven City Council, received State and National level Heart Foundation Kellogg Local Government Awards in 2004 for this project, in the category of Project by a Community Organisation .
Rebecca McPhee is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian and a Primary Facilitator for Health Coaching Australia. She has been involved in a variety of innovative community based lifestyle programs targeting obesity and is NSW chairperson for Nutrition Australia. Rebecca has also worked in England as an Obesity Specialist Dietitian for the NHS and was the representative for the Obesity Strategy Committee for Westminster. Rebecca currently runs a successful dietetics private practice where she specialises in assisting patients to self-manage diabetes, weight issues and cardiovascular disease. She uses health coaching techniques within her practice to achieve tailor made lifestyle and dietetic solutions for individuals.
Vanessa Cook is a Health Psychologist, Personal Trainer, and a Primary Facilitator for Health Coaching Australia. She owns and operates a successful personal training business in which she applies the Health Coaching Australia model to facilitate change within a population experiencing or at risk of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other preventable health conditions. Health Coaching is used both as an integrated part of her personal training practice to enable clients to overcome barriers that prevent their goal attainment, and also as a stand-alone health psychology service to individuals from the wider community for chronic condition self-management and health behaviour change. Vanessa is currently involved with several research projects using and evaluating the HCA model of health coaching.
Lisa Densley is a Clinical and Health Psychologist and a Primary Facilitator for Health Coaching Australia. Her own private psychological practice incorporates both Clinical work and Health Coaching roles. She has previously had extensive experience using Health Coaching within a Workers Compensation context for individuals requiring pain management and adjustment to disability counselling. Health Coaching for chronic condition self-management, under the Enhanced Primary Care Medicare program, is a key part of her current practice.
Caroline is a Manipulative Physiotherapist who consults in Occupational Health and works in a private practice in the Melbourne CBD. She is passionate about self-management and has extensive clinical experience in the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions and chronic pain. She also holds a Master’s degree by research which investigated the use of a home gravity traction device and exercise in chronic low back pain. Since attending both the Introductory and Consolidation Health Coaching Courses, Caroline has been integrating Health Coaching techniques into her clinical practice. It is used to assist patients to identify and overcome barriers which may prevent them adhering to treatment recommendations. She is now training with HCA to become a Co-facilitator.
Tracey Forster has a background in Health Promotion and is currently managing a Chronic Condition Self-Management Team in rural Victoria. Tracey has three years experience in using health coaching techniques with individuals who have a chronic condition to assist them to enhance their self management skills to improve the management of their condition. Another aspect of Tracey's role is working with a range of health professionals (such as Physiotherapists, Dietitians etc.) who have completed the HCA Introduction to Health Coaching for Health Professionals workshop to assist them to integrate health coaching techniques into their usual care.
She has also applied health coaching techniques within a group setting with people wanting to make lifestyle changes and lose weight. Tracey is very passionate about health coaching and after attending two HCA Introduction to Health Coaching for Health Professionals workshops and two HCA Review & Update (with Skills Consolidation Certificate option) workshops, is now working as a Training Assistant.
Tracey is also a Project Manager, working with 11 local health organisations in her area to improve integrated chronic disease management across the catchment.
Jennefer has twenty years experience as a trainer/facilitator in several fields, although latterly she was employed by a non-government organisation where she worked for seven years with challenging clients with complex psychosocial issues, including clients from an Aboriginal background.
Jennefer’s experiences as a trainer/facilitator include teaching advanced communication skills comprising corporate telephone techniques and world’s best practice in client/customer care. Additionally Jennefer has post graduate diplomas in Scottish History which led her to working in one of the most socially and economically deprived areas of the UK where extensive research was being conducted into the long-term effects of multi-generational deprivation on the physical and mental health between individuals and families. The research was examining the relationship between generational disadvantage, high unemployment, poor nutrition and low health priorities in the population within a welfare system.
With more than ten years experience in managing her own chronic disease, Jennefer has a highly developed understanding of the issues surrounding chronic disease management and its effects on quality of life.
Graham has had a long career in marketing, primarily in the area of Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Pharmaceuticals, both in Australasia and Asia.
After graduating from the University of Sydney, Graham worked for a number of multinational firms (including Nestle, Unilever & Novartis) in marketing & market research roles. He spent 15 years with the Reckitt & Colman group (now Reckitt Benckiser) in Australasia and Asia Pacific, before leaving in 1999 (as Asia Pacific Marketing Director). Between 1993 and 1999, Graham served at Board level on the major organisations representing the over the counter and prescription medicines industries in Australia, where he was active in developing and modifying the marketing Codes of Conduct for those industries.
Graham is currently Chairman, Promotional Monitoring Panel for ASMI (the industry body representing the self medication industry). Since 2001 he has taught post graduate Marketing courses at the University of Sydney. He is also a consultant to both private industry and government.
Kerry is the Operations Manager at Health Coaching Australia. She coordinates scheduling of organisational workshops, deals with general enquiries, coordinates HCA staff and overseas the promotion of upcoming events and workshops. Kerry has previously worked in a number of large media organisations in both the UK and Australia and is an accredited member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Beth Britton is the Workshop Coordinator for HCA workshops open to Individual Registrations in major capital cities. Her main responsibility is to oversee all registration processing and enquiries in relation to the workshops, in addition to managing resource distribution and the IT requirements of the team. She processes the registrations and enquiries from our website. Beth was previously involved in the development and administration of an alternative therapies wellness centre in Sydney. She is the mother of two young boys and works in our Kangaroo Valley office.
Lucy Rodden is the Organisational Workshop Coordinator for HCA workshops conducted in location for a variety of health organisations in regional areas and main centres all over Australia. She coordinates all the administration for these workshops which are run in conjunction with a variety of Community Health organisations, General Practice Divisions and other public and private health organisations. Lucy was previously involved in the administration of a large Sydney based genetics laboratory and IVF clinic and works from our Kangaroo Valley office.
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