Holistic nutrition for career changers
Train online at your own pace to become a Holistic Nutrition and Health Coach in 6 to 12 months, then build a practice on your own schedule with clients you choose.
Online · Self-paced · Accredited
Start Here · Tier 1 · 6 to 12 months
Holistic Nutrition and Health Coach Diploma
Register with HCA (Health Coach Alliance) as an RHNC (Registered Holistic Nutrition Counsellor) and RHC (Registered Health Coach). The RHC gives you access to insurance that covers nutrition consulting.
Optional · Tier 2 · A further 6 to 12 months
Holistic Nutritionist Diploma
Want to go further with your education? Continue whenever you are ready to qualify for the RHNP (Registered Holistic Nutrition Practitioner) through GAIN (Global Association for Integrative Nutrition) and become eligible for Board Certification in Holistic Nutrition (BCHN) through NANP (National Association of Nutrition Professionals).
Start with Tier 1, a complete diploma on its own, and continue to Tier 2 whenever you are ready.
INCLUDED: the Nutrition Business Blueprint, sold separately for $999, comes with your tuition. Tier 1: $2,546 CAD total
Why Students Trust Us
13+
Years teaching holistic nutrition
1000s
Graduates around the world
5.0 ★
Google rating
3x
Accredited: HCA, GAIN, NANP
Your Work Can Fit Your Life
Graduates who changed careers describe much the same before and after.
Before the Change
- ✕Sunday nights that feel heavy before the week begins
- ✕Hours and vacation days set by someone else
- ✕Answering friends’ health questions for free, without a credential
- ✕Wondering whether it is too late to start
After Training
- ✓Weeks you plan around your life
- ✓Clients you choose, online or in person
- ✓Recognized designations: RHNC, RHC and the path to RHNP
- ✓Work that matches what you care about
Where Many of Our Students Started
Many of our career-change students describe Sunday evenings the same way. The weekend winds down, the work week lines up, and a familiar heaviness settles in. The job paid the bills and they did it well, yet it no longer fit what they cared about, and it was using up hours they wanted for the rest of their life.
Their phones told another story. Friends asked what to eat for more energy, and coworkers kept sending them articles, because everyone knew who read about health.
Many had been giving this advice for free for years. Training gave them the credentials to make it their work.
Now Picture a Tuesday a Year From Now
Your first client call is at ten, from the desk by the window. She has been exhausted for three years, and today you walk her through what her food journal, her sleep and her stress have been telling you. You watch her shoulders drop as she finally understands why she has felt this way.
By noon you are out for a walk, because the afternoon is yours until a second client at two. Later you write next week’s group program session, pick up your kids or meet a friend for coffee, and spend an hour on a case that has you curious.
You set those hours yourself, and your time off is yours to plan.
What This Career Gives You
Four things graduates talk about most when they describe their work.
Freedom
Set your own hours and work from anywhere.
Purpose
Spend your days helping people feel well.
Income
Graduates typically charge about $100 to $120 an hour, depending on location.
Community
A worldwide network of students and graduates who love this work.
A Practice Built Around You
Holistic nutrition work can fit around your life, and you decide how fast your practice grows.
Set Your Own Hours
Choose when you work, then book clients into those hours.
- ✓Choose your days and your session times
- ✓Start with a few clients beside your current job
- ✓Grow when you are ready, at your own pace
Work From Anywhere
Your practice goes wherever you go.
- ✓Online consultations by video
- ✓Clients across Canada and beyond
- ✓Group programs, workshops and online courses
Do Work That Matches Your Values
Help people every day with the subject you love learning about.
- ✓Help people understand their own bodies
- ✓Use food, lifestyle and coaching
- ✓Be the person your community turns to for real answers
Three Steps From Your First Call to Your Own Practice
Get Your Questions Answered
Book a free call with admissions or download the program guide to sort out time, cost and fit.
Complete Tier 1
Most students finish in 6 to 12 months online. Register with HCA as an RHNC and RHC, with access to insurance that covers nutrition consulting.
Launch Your Practice
Use the Nutrition Business Blueprint to find your focus, price your services and build a client base. Continue to Tier 2 for the RHNP whenever you are ready.
What You Will Learn
The Institute offers two tiers that build on each other, so you can grow your education and credentials as far as you like. Tier 1 is a complete diploma on its own: after 6 to 12 months of self-paced online study, you can register as an RHNC and RHC and start seeing clients on your own schedule. Tier 2 is optional, for when you want more training to work with more complex cases.
Holistic Nutrition and Health Coach
Many students start with no science background, so the science is taught from the basics, in plain language, and you practise it on client cases from your first course. Courses open in order and each one builds on the one before, so you always know what comes next.
Fundamentals of Integrative Nutrition
Learn to assess what someone eats, see what their diet is missing and build meals around food quality. The course includes protein and a full lesson on Ayurvedic nutrition. You apply these skills to client cases from the start, so you have practised a first session before you see your own clients.
Principles of Holistic Health and Nutritional Medicine
Adapt nutrition for every stage of the life cycle, so you can work with clients of any age. You also learn to look for hidden contributors such as food sensitivities, environmental exposures and gut disruption, which helps you find the next step when a client has already tried the usual changes.
Integrative Nutritional Science
Blood sugar, digestion, hormones, detoxification and cellular energy are taught step by step. You learn to explain the reason behind every recommendation, so you can answer client questions with confidence and give each client a clear reason to follow the plan.
Health and Nutrition Coaching
Learn to support stress, sleep, emotional eating and the nervous system, and to lead the intake, the coaching conversation and the follow-up. You also learn to help clients stay with their plan between sessions, so you have a clear structure for every client from the first session. Sessions work well by video or phone, so you can see clients from anywhere.
✔ Before you graduate, you complete five client case studies, including a recorded coaching session, so you have already worked through real cases when you start your practice.
Holistic Nutritionist
Tier 2 is optional, and you can decide whether to take it after you finish Tier 1. It takes a further 6 to 12 months and is for practitioners who want to work with more complex health histories.
Human Anatomy and Physiology
Study every body system and how a change in one affects the others, so you can work through a complex case that involves several systems.
Pathology and Advanced Symptomatology
Learn how conditions develop, how to read a full set of symptoms and how to recognize red flags. You also learn when to refer, so you know exactly what is within your scope.
Mind Body Nutrition
Explore the glymphatic system, neurodivergence, brain aging and dementia, mental health and eating for brain health. You also study how thoughts and long-term stress shape disease, and practices you can use in sessions to help clients change how they live.
✔ You finish with comprehensive case reports and are ready to work with clients who have complex health histories.
From Other Careers to Their Own Practice
In Their Own Words
What students and graduates say about studying with us.
★★★★★
As a busy mom with a full time job and my own small business it’s important for me to be able to work at my own pace and on my own time.
Rebecca
★★★★★
I was so worried that with my busy schedule, I would never be able to finish the holistic nutrition coach program. But, I finally did! I really enjoyed this program and I’m so excited to begin my practice.
Megan
★★★★★
I love the fact that it works perfectly for someone that has a very busy schedule because you can do the program all at your own pace and on your own schedule.
Hope
★★★★★
I realized that I wanted to help others who were wanting to live a healthier lifestyle but just didn’t know where to start.
Sharah
★★★★★
I loved the fact that it was online and that it was flexible and the support I received from the school and from my classmates is what helped me succeed.
Melissa
★★★★★
The online platform is easy to use, the staff is helpful, the programs are in-depth but easy to follow and the knowledge that I have gained is priceless!
Lulu
Support at Every Step
Your tuition includes practitioner instructors, a student support team and a worldwide community to help you finish the program and start your practice.
Practitioners
Who Still See Clients
The people who teach the program work with clients themselves and answer your questions directly.
Worldwide
Community of Students and Graduates
Study with people who share your curiosity about health, and graduate into a network of practitioners around the world.
Student Support
A Team Who Gets to Know You
Reach the team by email or phone for help with your schedule, your coursework or anything in between. They take time to get to know every student, and graduates mention them in their reviews again and again.
Common Worries About Changing Careers, Answered
“I’m too old.”
Many of our students begin in their forties and fifties, and some in their sixties. Life experience helps in this work, because clients often trust a practitioner who has been through some of what they are facing.
“I don’t have a science background.”
Many of our students started without one. The science is taught from the ground up, in plain language, and applied to client cases from your first course.
“I’d be starting over.”
You can keep your job while you study, begin seeing a few clients after Tier 1, and decide when your practice is ready to become your main work. Your experience travels with you, and it is part of why clients will trust you.
“Will anyone pay me?”
Graduates typically charge about $100 to $120 an hour, depending on location, and the RHC gives you access to insurance that covers nutrition consulting. The Nutrition Business Blueprint, sold separately for $999 and included with your tuition, walks you through finding your focus, pricing your services and building a client base.
“What if it’s a waste of money?”
Tier 1 is a complete diploma that leads to two recognized designations, and you can begin seeing clients when you finish. Payment plans spread the cost, and eligible students can use an RESP or the RRSP Lifelong Learning Plan.
Start Your Holistic Nutrition Career With Tier 1
Begin with Tier 1, the Holistic Nutrition and Health Coach Diploma. Most students finish in 6 to 12 months and are ready to start seeing clients.
Tier 1: Holistic Nutrition and Health Coach Diploma
About 1,000 hours · Fully online · Self-paced
$2,546
CAD total · GST-exempt · Payment plans available
INCLUDED WITH YOUR TUITION
Nutrition Business Blueprint
Find your focus, build your brand, create content that leads to clients, price your offer and build your client pipeline.
Sold separately for $999. Included with your enrolment.
- ✓Four course terms, about 1,000 hours or 6 to 12 months, at your own pace
- ✓Eligibility to register as an RHNC and RHC with HCA
- ✓Access to insurance that covers nutrition consulting
- ✓A support team who answers your questions
- ✓A worldwide community of students and graduates
- ✓A clear optional path to Tier 2, the RHNP and Board Certification eligibility
Prefer the full two-tier program, about 12 to 24 months? Enrol for $3,650 in total. Not sure yet? Book a free call.
Affirm and Klarna at checkout offer some plans up to 24 months. ESDC certified for RESP and RRSP Lifelong Learning Plan use. Ask admissions about the $400 bursary. Graduates typically charge about $100 to $120 an hour, depending on location.
Designed for Practice
Anyone with a phone can look up facts in seconds. What clients look for in a practitioner is judgement: someone who listens to their story, sees how the pieces fit together and knows what to do first. Each course builds that judgement one client case at a time.
The ROOTS Method™
ROOTS is the clinical reasoning method taught in every course. It gives you a clear way to work through a client’s story, decide where to begin and know what comes next. You practise it case by case from your first course.
Frequently Asked Questions
Am I too old to start a new career in holistic nutrition?
Do I need a science background?
Can I keep my job while I study?
How soon can I start seeing clients?
How will I find clients?
What does it cost, and can I pay monthly?
Is NutraPhoria Integrative Health Institute accredited?
What is the difference between a Health Coach and a Holistic Nutritionist?
Email admissions@nutraphoria.com with any other question and the team will get back to you.
Your Holistic Nutrition Career Starts With a Free Call
Our students are the ones friends text with health questions, the ones who read the research themselves, and the ones who kept asking why long after everyone else stopped. Here they become Health Detectives together.
INCLUDED WITH YOUR TUITION
Nutrition Business Blueprint
The business training to turn your diploma into a practice.
Sold separately for $999. Included.
$2,546
Tier 1 · CAD total · Payment plans available
Book Your Free Call With AdmissionsFree call · No obligationP.S. Admissions can offer a $400 bursary that applies to either tier and stays valid for 10 days once it is offered. Book a free call to ask about it and get your questions answered before you decide.
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