wellness coaching

Wellness coaching provides one-on-one support to help you identify your goals, overcome challenges and create actionable plans for a healthier lifestyle. Our professional and student staff are here to help you develop the skills and confidence you need to thrive.

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How Wellness Coaching Works

Session 1

Exploration and Vision

Building the foundation and envisioning success.

  • Identify wellness interests
  • Recognize current strengths and opportunities for success
  • Determine if coaching is the right fit for you

Session 2

Goals and Action Plans

Set SMART goals and build an action plan.

  • Map out goals and actions steps with intention
  • Prepare for barriers and concerns
  • Connect with resources to act on your plan

Session 3-5

Progress and Practice

Skill-building, adjusting and deepening engagement.

  • Map out goals with action steps with intention
  • Prepare for barriers and concerns
  • Connect with resources to act on your plan

Session 4 or 6

Conclusion and Future

Preparing for independence and continued growth.

  • Reflect on overall progress
  • Celebrate successes
  • Develop strategies to set and accomplish goals independently

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Wellness Coaching Topics

Physical Well-Being
  • Sleep
    • Reducing fatigue and improving energy during the day
    • Creating better sleep routines and hygiene
  • Physical Activity
    • Starting or maintaining a workout routine
    • Exploring new types of movement or exercise
  • Substance Use
    • Risk reduction and safer choices with alcohol, tobacco or cannabis
    • Planning for safety and support around other substance use
  • Sexual Health
    • Learn strategies for safer sex
    • Build communication skills to promote healthy relationships
Social Well-Being
  • College Transitions
    • Adjusting to campus life and making connections
    • Navigating friendships and relationships during times of change
  • Communication Skills
    • Setting healthy boundaries with roommates, friends or partners
    • Building stronger and healthier relationships
  • Technology Habits
    • Reducing phone or social media use
    • Finding balance between online and offline life
Emotional Wellness
  • Stress Management
    • Building coping skills for stress, anxiety or overwhelm
  • Work–Life Balance
    • Balancing academics, wellness and personal responsibilities
  • Emotional Regulation
    • Understanding how you experience emotions
    • Expressing feelings in healthy, productive ways
Mental Wellness
  • Focus & Concentration
    • Strengthening attention for studying and daily tasks
  • Motivation & Productivity
    • Overcoming procrastination and creating routines that stick
Most Common Topics
  • Nutrition
    • Building healthy eating habits and nutrition skills
    • Managing conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure or cholesterol
  • Sleep
    • Reducing fatigue and improving energy during the day
    • Creating better sleep routines and hygiene
  • College Transitions
    • Adjusting to campus life and making connections
    • Navigating friendships and relationships during times of change
  • Technology Habits
    • Reducing phone or social media use
    • Finding balance between online and offline life
  • Motivation & Productivity
    • Overcoming procrastination and creating routines that stick

Nutrition Coaching

Supporting students as they create healthy habits and plans around nutrition is a core component of the coaching programs in the Student Wellness Center. Our staff and Peer Health Educators are trained to share practical, evidence-based education around nutrition while supporting students in achieving their personal wellness goals.

We believe:

All Foods Fit – No single food is “good” or “bad.” All foods can be part of a healthy lifestyle.

Eat What You Like, Add What You Need – Nutrition should be enjoyable. The foundation is eating foods you enjoy while learning how to include what your body needs for energy, focus and long-term health.

Growth is in Finding Balance – Wellness comes from progress, not perfection. Nutrition is about balance, flexibility and discovering what works best for you over time.

What to Expect from Nutrition Coaching

With Nutrition Coaching you will:

  • Identify barriers to healthy eating
  • Set personalized nutrition goals
  • Develop an action plan that matches your lifestyle and preferences

Nutrition Coaching is not:

  • We do not diagnose medical conditions
  • We do not prescribe meal plans
  • We do not promote calorie counting or restrictive dieting

For students with specialized medical nutrition needs, we offer referrals to licensed clinical dietitians.

Coaching Compared to Therapy

Coaching

Wellness coaching is focused on helping students identify and achieve personal goals related to their health and well-being – such as improving sleep, managing time, or building healthy habits. Coaches use supportive, forward-looking conversations to encourage self-discovery, accountability, and positive behavior change.

Focus Area: Coaching

  • Set, plan and reach personal goals related to your health and well-being
  • The “HOW” in achieving goals.

Approach: Coaching

  • Strengths-based and goal-oriented
  • Supportive, future-focused conversations that promote self-reflection and accountability

Outcomes: Coaching

  • Clear, actionable wellness goals
  • Increased motivation and accountability for personal growth
  • Enhanced confidence in making healthy lifestyle choices
  • Practical strategies for balancing academic, social and personal life
  • Stronger sense of purpose and direction
  • Improved overall well-being and resilience

Providers: Coaching

  • Trained and Certified Professional
  • Certified Student Peer Educators

Therapy

Therapy is designed to support students who are navigating mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma or stress. Licensed mental health professionals help students explore past experiences, process emotions, and build coping strategies to support psychological healing and growth.

Focus Area: Therapy

  • Understanding patterns, processing emotions, and developing coping strategies
  • The “WHY” in behavior patterns

Approach: Therapy

  • Clinical and healing-centered
  • Explores past experiences, thought patterns, and emotional challenges

Outcomes: Therapy

  • Greater self-awareness and insight into patterns of thinking and behavior
  • Reduction in symptoms of anxiety, depression and other mental health concerns
  • Healing from trauma or past experiences
  • Increased ability to manage stress, grief or life transitions
  • Personalized treatment plan and professional mental health support

Providers: Therapy

  • Licensed Mental Health Professionals and Clinical Social Workers

TimelyCare Mental Health App

All UTD students have free and quick access to TimelyCare, a mental health app where you can get in-the-moment support, self-help tools, text support and much more! Use your UTD email/password to get started.