Nancy Laurenson, MSc., NBC-HWC  is a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach and Clinical Exercise Physiologist and with more than 25 years of experience in health care. Her focus has centered on programs that promote wellness and improve the physical well-being and emotional health of participants. Nancy received her master’s degree in Human and Applied Physiology from Kings College, London UK and trained as a Certified Integrative Health Coach at Duke Integrative Medicine’s Integrative Health Coaching Program. She took the National Board Certification for Health and Wellness Coaching in 2017 and re-certified in 2020 and 2023. In addition to focusing on individual and group coaching, Nancy has designed, facilitated, and managed programs and workshops that address chronic disease, rehabilitation and physical injury, as well as cognitive and mental health issues, with a focus on lifestyle management and behavior change using an integrative model of care.

Recently, Nancy helped design and deliver a new health coaching program for Lighter Health bridging their digital online approach with individual and group designed health and lifestyle coaching for corporate employee wellness programs. With her consulting work for RXDiet, Nancy designed and delivered health and wellness coaching to Medicaid patients in an innovative program tackling high-risk Type 2 diabetes.

Previously, over several years she developed and implemented from start to full execution the Integrative Health and Wellness Coaching programs at Barton Health’s Wellness Department and for VA Palo Alto, Polytrauma Department. Her health coaching experience has been informed in part by her foundational work in integrative medicine with the Total Atherosclerosis Management Program (TAM) at Cardiology Associates of Marin and San Francisco. This experience was furthered during her work in cancer, heart disease and intensive cardiac rehab at Ornish Lifestyle Medicine and the Preventive Medicine Research Institute (PMRI). These positions were pivotal turning points in her career direction leading to coaching. Nancy is committed to the value and benefits of an integrative approach to behavioral health and chronic disease management: an approach that bridges the gap between an allopathic outlook using a western view of drug therapy and surgery with a complementary approach that helps heal and support clients.

In her work, Nancy has experienced first-hand the transformation that comes from bringing health coaching together with lifestyle medicine, focusing on physical activity/movement, balanced nutrition, social/group support, stress management therapies and healing elements as part of an overall treatment program for individuals with any form of health-care need. Nancy’s goal is to help clients thrive in a partnership that targets a whole health approach to wellness. She achieves this by empowering individuals in their decisions to improve their health and make changes in their behavior and lifestyle.