Functional Medicine Health Coach

Functional medicine health coaches work with functional medicine practitioners to support patients implementing complex protocols and lifestyle changes.

With functional medicine growing rapidly and patient support essential, coaching generates revenue of $95,000-$320,000 with 85-95% margins.

The business requires functional medicine health coaching certification (FMCA), functional medicine knowledge, coaching skills, lab interpretation basics, and practitioner relationships.

Services include patient coaching and accountability, protocol implementation support, nutrition and lifestyle coaching, supplement compliance, lab tracking, and practitioner coordination.

Revenue through coaching packages $1,000-$4,000 and practitioner contracts.

Success factors include Functional Medicine Coaching Academy (FMCA) certification, understanding functional medicine testing and protocols, building functional medicine practitioner partnerships, coaching patients through complex interventions, and serving chronic disease population.

Marketing focuses on functional medicine doctors, integrative practices, and complex chronic patients.

With functional medicine booming and patient support crucial in 2025, functional coaching offers specialty wellness coaching opportunities serving root-cause medicine patients with practitioner partnerships key.