Wellness Coaching

Wellness Coaching is available through the Department of Campus Recreation and Wellbeing. This resource allows students to meet with a wellness coach for one initial session and four follow up sessions to discuss goals related to many of the dimensions of wellness.

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Benefits

  • Wellness Coaching sessions can improve overall quality of life and perceived stress levels.
  • Students drive conversations about goal setting, which can lead to overall promotion of self-care and personal growth.
  • Students can benefit from coaching to help balance student life and academic demands, while exploring personal health and wellness goals.

Frequently Asked Questions

Main topics appropriate for wellness coaching include:
  • Exercise and fitness goals
  • Healthy snacking, meal preparation, food shopping, recipe research
  • Stress relief tools
  • Sleeping habits
  • Daily routine and time management
  1. Visit: recstore.csub.edu/
  2. Sign in in the top right corner using your CSUB NetID
  3. Select the "Bookings" icon
  4. On the “menu” of Wellness Suite offerings, click on “Wellness Coaching Intro Session"
    1. Change the dates as necessary to check for upcoming availability
    2. If you do not see availability, please contact LBank@csub.edu to schedule individually.
Wellness Coaches:
  • Focus on present moment lifestyle habits, future goals, and achievement of higher levels of overall wellbeing.
  • Coaches and student work together to identify small steps to achieve goals, while adjusting along the way.
Counselors/Therapists:
  • Can include psychotherapy, diagnosis, evaluation; administration and interpretation of assessments.
  • Consists of sessions with a licensed clinician to help address ongoing psychological symptoms, or patterns of thought, behavior, or emotion that no longer serve a person.
  • Therapy allows clients to dive deeper into past or present issues to make positive changes in their lives. 
  • Please visit the CSUB Counseling Center's website for more information about their services.
Mentioning mental health concerns is not off limits, but if outside the scope of coaching, wellness coaches are equipped to refer students to other campus partners when necessary. On a case-by-case basis, referrals to the Counseling Center, Dean of Students, CARE team, Basic Needs, or others may be suggested. Wellness Coaches are mandated to report any reveal of personal harm to the self or others.