What is Lifestyle Coaching?
Lifestyle coaching takes a comprehensive approach to well-being, addressing all areas that influence health — including nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management, environment, and daily habits. Rather than focusing solely on what to eat, this approach recognizes that lasting health is shaped by consistent lifestyle patterns. Together, these elements create the foundation for meaningful and sustainable change.
This type of coaching centers on the behavioral shifts necessary to support long-term results. Knowledge alone is rarely enough to transform health. True progress happens when insight is paired with accountability, structured support, and practical strategies that fit into real life. Through personalized guidance, goal setting, and ongoing encouragement, lifestyle coaching helps bridge the gap between knowing what to do and consistently doing it.
Because substantial behavioral change does not happen overnight, this process requires time, commitment, and collaboration between the participant and coach. Sustainable transformation is built through small, intentional steps practiced consistently over time. Regular sessions provide space to assess progress, navigate obstacles, adjust strategies, and reinforce habits that support continued growth.
It is important to note that lifestyle coaching is typically not covered by insurance. As a result, it is considered an out-of-pocket investment in your long-term health and well-being. Many individuals find that the value of personalized support, accountability, and prevention-focused care far outweighs the cost, particularly when compared to the long-term impact of unmanaged stress, poor nutrition, and chronic lifestyle-related conditions.
Lifestyle coaching is an investment in building the skills, awareness, and habits necessary to create lasting change — empowering you to take an active role in your health now and into the future.
Who We Serve

Individuals
We offer group programming as well as 1:1 individual coaching programs designed to help our clients achieve sustainable change.

Businesses
We offer leadership, group programs and individual 1:1 coaching programs for staff to help your company become healthier and more productive.

Nonprofits
We offer programming for nonprofit boards, staff and even customized programming to address the needs of the people you serve.
Recipes

Creamy Pumpkin Curry Soup
Why I like this… The DC metro area recently experienced its longest freezing streak since 1989! When the days are below 10 or in the

Colorful Quinoa Salad
Why I like this… I like color, texture, and variety in my food. I also like to make dishes ahead that I can grab for

Asian Turkey Lettuce Wraps
Why I like this… I like this because it has that simple “fresh” feel about it. I like the hint of sesame, balanced with ginger,
Get to know Tina
Tina holds a Masters in Nutrition and Integrative Health and is a board-certified, licensed dietitian-nutritionist. She is the founder of Encompass Integrative Wellness, LLC, an integrative clinical nutrition practice that focuses on empowering people to embrace food and lifestyle modifications to help them achieve real, sustainable change.
Tina believes there is no one-size-fits-all approach to wellness and works with her clients to customize solutions that work for them. While she works with people with a variety of health goals, she has a special focus on women’s health issues, intuitive eating, getting out of the cycle of dieting, and living a fully integrative lifestyle.
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