Holistic nutrition for nurses and allied health professionals
Help people years before a crisis and become a Holistic Nutrition and Health Coach in 6 to 12 months, studying around your shifts while you keep your licence and your income.
Online · Self-paced · Accredited
Start Here · Tier 1 · 6 to 12 months
Holistic Nutrition and Health Coach Diploma
Register as an RHNC (Registered Holistic Nutrition Counsellor) and RHC (Registered Health Coach) with HCA (Health Coach Alliance), with 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
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Accredited: HCA, GAIN, NANP
Add a Practice Built on Your Clinical Training
Nurses and allied health professionals who add holistic nutrition to their work often describe the same before and after.
Where Many Nurses Start
- ✕A few minutes of teaching before the patient goes home
- ✕Twelve-hour shifts, nights and a schedule set by the unit
- ✕Questions about food, sleep and stress with no time to answer them
- ✕The same patients back with the same complaints
Where This Leads
- ✓Hour-long consultations and follow-ups across months
- ✓Support that starts while people still feel mostly well
- ✓Recognized designations: RHNC, RHC and the path to RHNP
- ✓A practice on hours you choose, beside your nursing role
The Patient Who Keeps Coming Back
Many nurses who come to us describe the same moment in the middle of a busy shift. A patient you know by name is back for the fourth time this year. While you check vitals and settle them in, you catch yourself wondering what they ate this morning, how they have been sleeping and what changed in their life two years ago when all of this started. The chart has no line for any of it, and the shift keeps moving.
You get them stable and teach what you can in the few minutes you have, and they go home to the same days that brought them in. Afterwards a thought stays with you: somebody should be helping people long before they ever need a hospital bed.
The nurses who study with us wanted to be that person, with training and a credential behind them. Many first came to holistic nutrition through their own health, after years of nights left them running on coffee and willpower and food and sleep turned out to be part of the answer. They also wanted work they could shape around their own lives.
Let’s Say It’s a Wednesday a Year From Now
You worked your three twelves earlier in the week, and today is yours. At ten you open your laptop for a follow-up with a client you have seen for four months. When she first booked, she was exhausted by mid-afternoon and waking at three every night. Together you have been working through her breakfasts, her caffeine and the stress she brings home from work. Today she tells you she slept through the night four times this week.
At one you meet a new client on video who lives two provinces away and found you through a talk you gave at her community centre. You have a full hour with her, time to ask about her history, her sleep, her food and what changed before her symptoms began. By three you are finished, with the rest of the day for your own family.
You decided how many shifts stay on your schedule and how many hours go to your own practice.
What Adding Nutrition Gives Nurses
Four reasons nurses add holistic nutrition to their work.
Prevention
Support people while they still feel mostly well.
Time
Hour-long visits for every question a shift leaves out.
Income
Graduates typically charge about $100 to $120 an hour, depending on location.
Schedule
Hours you choose, online or in person.
A Practice That Runs on Your Hours
Your nutrition practice sits beside your nursing role, and you decide how much room each one takes.
Help People Before a Crisis
Work with people while they still have time to change course.
- ✓Offer nutrition consultations as a separate service
- ✓Follow clients over months, with time for every question
- ✓Grow at your own pace, a few sessions at a time
Work From Anywhere
Your nutrition practice travels with you.
- ✓Online consultations by video
- ✓Clients across Canada and beyond
- ✓Group programs, workshops and online courses
Look After Your Own Health
What you learn applies to you first.
- ✓Learn how sleep, stress and night shifts affect energy
- ✓Eat well through twelves and nights
- ✓Live the habits you teach your clients
Three Steps From Your Next Shift to Your Own Practice
Talk It Through
Book a free call or download the program guide. Bring your questions about scope, your licence, your shift schedule and which tier fits your goals.
Complete Tier 1
Most students finish in 6 to 12 months online, and you keep nursing the whole way through. Register with HCA (Health Coach Alliance) as an RHNC and RHC, with access to insurance that covers nutrition consulting.
Start Seeing Clients
Use the Nutrition Business Blueprint to design, price and offer your services, starting with a few clients on your days off. 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, the Holistic Nutrition and Health Coach Diploma, is complete on its own and takes 6 to 12 months of online study at your own pace, so you can fit it around your shifts. It leads to registration as an RHNC and RHC, so you can offer holistic nutrition as a service separate from your nursing role, on hours you choose. Tier 2 is optional if you want further training.
Holistic Nutrition and Health Coach
Nurses who study with us already have training in pathophysiology, pharmacology and assessment. Tier 1 adds how food, digestion, blood sugar, hormones, sleep and stress affect how a person feels each day, and you practise on client cases from your first course.
Fundamentals of Integrative Nutrition
Learn to assess what someone eats, see what the diet is missing and build meals around food quality, including how much protein a person needs. A full lesson covers Ayurvedic nutrition, a traditional approach to everyday eating.
Principles of Holistic Health and Nutritional Medicine
Adapt nutrition for every stage of the life cycle and uncover hidden contributors such as food sensitivities, environmental exposures and gut disruption. You also learn to ask what changed in a person’s life before the symptoms began. There is often little time for that question during a busy shift.
Integrative Nutritional Science
Study how blood sugar, digestion, hormones, detoxification and cellular energy respond to food and daily habits, building on the physiology you learned in nursing. You learn to explain the reason behind every recommendation, so a client understands why each change is on her plan.
Health and Nutrition Coaching
Learn to support stress, emotional eating, the nervous system, and sleep and circadian rhythm for people who work shifts, and to lead the intake, the coaching conversation and the follow-up. Coaching sessions give you time with one client, and you help her stay with her plan between sessions over weeks and months.
✔ Before you graduate, you complete five client case studies, including a recorded coaching session, so you have already done client work when you start your practice.
Holistic Nutritionist
Tier 2, the Holistic Nutritionist Diploma, is optional for graduates who want to take on more complex cases. Nurses who continue already know much of the anatomy, physiology and pathology, so more of their study time goes to how each body system responds to food, stress and lifestyle.
Human Anatomy and Physiology
Work through every body system and how a change in one affects the others, so you can follow how a client’s digestion, hormones and nervous system influence each other.
Pathology and Advanced Symptomatology
Study how conditions develop, read a full set of symptoms together and recognize red flags. You also learn exactly when to refer, so your holistic nutrition work stays within its scope and supports a client’s medical care.
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 that help clients change how they live.
✔ You finish with comprehensive case reports and are ready to work with clients who have complex health histories, in coordination with their medical care.
They Added Nutrition to the Work They Already Knew
In Their Own Words
What students and graduates say about studying with us.
★★★★★
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
★★★★★
Within 1 year, I had completed the course and am currently assisting clients towards leading a healthier lifestyle through proper diet and exercise. I absolutely love being a Nutrition Coach and am constantly learning.
Andrea
★★★★★
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
★★★★★
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
★★★★★
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
Support From Your First Course to Graduation
Your enrolment comes with practitioner instructors, a worldwide community and a support team who helps you fit study around your shifts.
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 nurses and allied health professionals who keep asking why, 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.
What Nurses Ask Before They Call Us
“My nursing licence comes first.”
Many health professionals run a holistic nutrition practice as a separate service. Your nursing college or regulator sets the rules for how the two connect, such as how you describe each service and how you keep records, so check with them. Admissions can talk through the questions nurses raise most often.
“I already know anatomy and physiology.”
The familiar material moves quickly, and your nursing education gives you a head start in Tier 2. Most of your time goes to what nursing school had little room for: functional nutrition, food as a therapeutic tool, nutrigenomics, psychoneuroimmunology, mind body nutrition and coaching that helps people change habits. You build on everything you know as a clinician, without the cost and years of another degree.
“I need training at a clinical level.”
The curriculum covers biochemistry, pathophysiology, mitochondrial science and parasitology, applied to client cases, and you complete five client case studies, including a recorded coaching session, before you finish Tier 1. The Institute is recognized by three independent bodies: HCA, GAIN (Global Association for Integrative Nutrition) and NANP (National Association of Nutrition Professionals).
“I have no energy left after twelve-hour shifts.”
The program is online and self-paced, so you study after a set of nights or on your days off, and it waits for you through a heavy stretch. Courses open in sequence, so you always know what comes next, and the practitioners who teach the program answer your questions directly.
“I can’t give up my pension or benefits.”
Your position, pension, benefits and income stay in place while you train. After Tier 1 you can register as an RHNC and RHC and see a few clients on your days off. Some nurses keep both roles for years, and others let the practice grow into their main work, on a timeline they choose.
Start Tier 1 While You Keep Nursing
Begin with Tier 1, the Holistic Nutrition and Health Coach Diploma, and start seeing clients on your own hours after 6 to 12 months of study.
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
Can I practise holistic nutrition and keep my nursing licence?
Will the science repeat what I learned in nursing school?
Can I keep my nursing job while I study?
How soon can I start seeing clients?
Can I work with clients who have diagnosed conditions?
What does it cost, and can I pay monthly?
Is NutraPhoria Integrative Health Institute accredited?
How is a holistic nutritionist different from a dietitian or a nurse?
Email admissions@nutraphoria.com with any other question and the team will get back to you.
Your Clinical Training Brought You This Far
Nurses who come to us tend to be the ones who asked one more question at the bedside, read the research on their days off and believed people could feel far better than stable. Here they study with classmates from nursing, allied health and many other fields, taught by practitioners who still see clients. Our students are Health Detectives, and the first case many of them solve is what they want their own working life to look like.
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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