Peer Health Coaching
Health Coaching a growing industry in the health and wellness field that utilizes health behavior theory and lifestyle change science to improve your overall health and well-being. Here at UCCS, we offer a free health coaching program for students, faculty, and staff.
UCCS Peer Health Coaches are dedicated to guiding and supporting your wellbeing while making a real connections with you both in person and remotely. With the Peer Health Coaching program, you no longer have to “do health” on your own. Peer Health Coaches can work with you to:
- Developing realistic goals
- Adopt healthy lifestyle changes
- Become consistent with healthy routines
- Find balance in your life
- Track your progress through periodic check-ins
All Peer Health Coaches work under the supervision of a certified Health Coach faculty member.
Please reach out to Gina Burton, HWC at gburton@uccs.edu for Health Coaching questions.
Amy Temte is a graduate student in the Health Promotion program. She is a mother of two adult girls and a grandmother of two. When Amy started at UCCS, she was finishing a bachelor’s that she started two decades before, but then found her niche after taking Health Coaching with Gina Burton. Amy completed her Health and Wellness Coaching Certification and completed additional training through Real Balance Global Wellness.
As a non-traditional student, Amy brings many years of experience and life knowledge to Peer Health Coaching at UCCS. She has overcome many health issues in her life including quitting a 25-year-smoking habit and coming off a heavy sugar addiction. Amy understands how difficult behavior change can be and that there is no “one-size-fits-all” formula to follow. She wants to help others with navigating their personal health journeys and finding their “why” behind both positive and negative behaviors.
Amy plans to sit for the board examination through National Board of Health and Wellness Coaches (NBHWC) sometime next year
My name is Zoe Hartfield and I finishing my bachelors degree in health and wellness promotion. I switched from exercise science to health and wellness promotion end of freshman year and fell in love with it. I completed my health and wellness coaching certification through Real Balance last spring semester at UCCS through health coaching class instructed by Dr. Gina Burton. I have overcome an eating disorder; epilepsy and panic attacks. It's hard making a change; but I want the best for everyone and want others to find a path that they can take to make a change in certain behaviors. I want to have the ability to help keep people accountable and cheer them on as they work towards improving a health behaviors just like I overcame so many challenges in my lifetime. I also plan to be a certified personal trainer at the end of the fall semester; and help others reach their goals.
My name is Maycie, and I’m a senior majoring in health and wellness promotion. After graduating with my bachelors, I hope to obtain my associates degree in dental hygiene. The reason why I started as a health promotion student is because I wanted to help a variety of populations that are overlooked such as populations that don’t have access to mental health or health care resources. In this case, I obtained my health coaching certification to help people find different ways in changing their behaviors or habits despite the lack of resources, and find methods that suit their lifestyle. I believe this program will be helpful and a transforming experience for college students who want to take action steps towards changing one of their lifestyle behaviors like sleeping a certain number of hours or staying hydrated. Even as a college student myself, I understand the challenges and struggles of changing my behaviors and habits of procrastination on assignments or sleeping late because I studied for an exam last minute. Therefore, it is my intention to help college students work with these struggles and challenges.